Akunsaunt

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Akunsaunt is the oldest city on the Continent of Arefore. While the country of Arefore claims Akunsaunt is one of it's cities, Akunsaunt does not pay taxes nor is subject to military tithe from the country's military. Akunsaunt has declared it's independence multiple times and while none of it's claims have been accepted, Arefore does not acknowledge Akunsaunt's sovereignty.

Akunsaunt has no direct access to the outside road via any roads or other means of overland transportation. One could attempt to summit the edge of the caldera and climb in, were it not for a transparent wall of force that protects the opening from any incoming objects except light.

History
Akunsaunt was once a relatively unheard of town nestled in the Stivinian Belt. It was, up until roughly 300 years ago, a place with open trade but difficult access through a very dangerous series of tunnels through the mountain side. For thousands of years very few people had any reason to every journey into Akunsaunt.

In it's early life the town of Akunsaunt was rather peaceful and quiet. A few settlers noticed that the caldera had a lot of resources in the tunnels around it and a small mining community was established to harvest these resources. During a mining excavation, a group of miners uncovered a small pouch in the walls of a cave that could not be damaged by their picks. They extracted the pouch and found that it contained a very large amount of gold, much more than the pouch should fit. Each of them took a share of the gold inside and then one of them hid the pouch and they agreed not to discuss it ever again. The next day the man who took the pouch discovered that it was once again full of gold, the same amount as there was the previous day. For years after that he kept it a secret, using the money to slowly and carefully acquire an increasingly greater stake in the mining operations.

GoboMine Industries
During the course of one of the mining operations, the owner of the money pouch had operations halt when a goblin encampment was run into and started slaughtering workers. The owner used his resources to make hire a group of mercenaries to stem the tide of goblins that were threatening the town, and once the goblins were made willing to talk, the owner of the pouch negotiated with the goblins to agree that their land would be held to be their own and that he would be willing to pay them in resources in exchange for their aid in his mining operations. It was then that the man began his own operation and called it GoboMine Industries.