FerriticMatrix

Waking up inside the ruins of an orphanage, Alexander finds himself chained and sold to slavery.
A modern metallurgist, trapped in ancient times, watch as he tries to play with the cards fate dealt him.
He will make plate armor, invent paper, build roads, teach governance and many more, as he tries to carve a place for himself.
But how can such things not attract jealous eyes?
The naval superpower- Cantagena,
The unstoppable army of- Exolas, 
The superpower of the east- Adhania,
The mercantile confederation- Sybarsis, 
The religious fanatics- Iyizarid, 
And the ever-present- Barbarians of the Barren Forrest,
All want something from each other.
In this ocean of sharks, follow a small carp as it struggles to leap through the dragon gate and establish a dynasty to outlast them all.

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Herald of Steel

Alexander's division of land among the various nobles did not actually involve too much forfeiture of the free lands of Tibias, i.e. the lands that the Tibian royal family, and now the Pasha of Zanzan had default right over.

The reason for which was simple- almost nobody wanted those 'free lands' under Alexander's control.

And to know why, one had to only ask, 'why were those lands free in the first place.'

And the answer would generally be that those places were either too barren or remote or both, being neither suitable for cultivation of any kind nor for extraction of any.

And for an agrarian society like Tibias, that basically meant those lands were almost equivalent to a barren desert.

It had to be appreciated that societies of this time period almost exclusively had large population centers only concentrated on good, fertile, arable land.

Dividing the Lands (Part-6)