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[[File:Wandersail (1174 ship).jpg|thumb|right|200px|<center><small>by [[Coppermind:Artists/Casta|Casta]]</small></center> A Thaylen ship in port]]
=== Trade ===
Thaylenah is well known for its merchants. Thaylen
Merchants in Thaylenah are ranked, from apprentice to master merchant. The position is equally open to both men and women, and even to non-Thaylens.{{book ref|sa2|i|3}} One can become a merchant by being taken in as an apprentice by a master, whereupon the latter becomes their legal parent, or ''[[babsk]]''. Traditional clothing, consisting of a flat-topped conical hat and starched robes, identifies master merchant from their servants and guards.{{book ref|sa1|i|4}} Ship captains -- who are often merchants themselves -- can be additionally identified by an item known as the '''captain's cord'''. The cord is a twenty-feet-long white rope, which the captain wraps in their own colors and strings on the ship's rigging to mark their ownership.{{book ref|sa3|i|13}}
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