The Golden Road used to be a place where commerce and trade were abundant. It was a market filled with the exchange of goods from all over the continent, creating demand and supply that eventually made everyone prosper in the long run.
It was where Yze Vanderbilt and a lot of other people in this room had their start.
Yze started as a lowly peddler in the Golden Road, trekking the entire continent trying to sell spice and silk to earn a couple of bronze coins to spend. Eventually, he grew his business into what it was now.
However, due to the disasters occurring in merchant ships while crossing the different continents, the trade of exotic goods and items eventually came to a stop.
Yze and a lot of other companies didn't think it was worth it to spend billions of gold on buying a ship, manning it with a crew, and sending it on a months-long journey just for them to die in the ocean.