MapsAndFlags

ca. 1250 CE Oyogka, Ausumne Circuit Gold was nothing special to the metalworkers of the Imperial City. There was a great deal of gold in the mountains of the Yamani and Nisenan to the north, and they often paid their tributes to the imperial center in it. Cuyagui didn’t think much of it, he just saw it as what his family had done for generations. He did have to admit, though, that there was always a kind of fascination with seeing the liquid metal poured into the shapes desired. Today it was a simple thing, just forging a new set of k’akha for the merchants to use. The gold came from the mountains as nuggets or flakes, often mixed with other rocks that weren’t needed. The process was simple enough: first he’d break the rocks down, then put the debris into a kiln and start to stoke the fires. The gold would soften and melt faster than the rocks around them, at which point it could be drained away from the rest of the rocks and collected. He’d then take it and pour it into moulds he’d