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Commodity illustration: Rum

Category:Provisions

Poor rum from Brazil

Standard price
600 pieces of eight per Ton
Surplus
300 pieces of eight
Scarcity
800 pieces of eight
Quality

Export regions

Rum is a strong spirit distilled from the products of sugar cane. It travels in casks, and the smell released when one is opened leaves little doubt about its strength.

Molasses and other products of sugar making are fermented and distilled to supply drinkers in ports and plantation settlements. In mid-seventeenth-century Barbados, the name kill-devil reflects the spirit's rough reputation. A cask links the sugar works to a further trade in strong drink.

Sources and adaptations

References in the Pavillon Noir books:

  • Carnet de Vercourt, p. 525, 526, PDF pages 521.
  • La Révolte, p. 287, 308.
  • L’Art de l’escrime, p. 107.
  • À feu et à sang, p. 194.

The description was written by Ludic RPG. Prices are game values expressed in pieces of eight.