Favourite trade routes?

General Tips

  • Give riding skill and horses to all companions.
  • Invest in the pathfinding skill.
  • Take cavalry over infantry (for trading journeys).
  • Keep the army size small (but high enough to "scare" bandits away).
  • Keep the morale of the army high.
  • Have 6 horses in your inventory (as "pack" horses).
  • Put points to inventory management.
  • Visit the villages near the towns for cheap goods.
  • If you increase trading skill with one of the companions, put 2 points in it for your character to get the +1 extra.
  • Get some experience and levels before you start, to be able to handle robbing attempts when entering towns.
  • Do quests for the towns to improve your relations.

Price Ranges

If you need to empty inventory, any price over the buying threshold is profit, so it's alright to dump your inventory if you know that the next cities in your route doesn't pay well for those goods.

BUY under X means buy when the buying price is below X.

SELL over Y means sell when the selling price is over Y.


If you don't have much trading skill in your party or the economy a town is bad because of war, you might not get prices as high when selling. Drop the selling prices by ~10%.

For buying, avoid buying for higher than the threshold. Just move on to another city.


Most Profitable Goods:

These are the main items you are looking for when trading.

  • Iron

BUY under 150
SELL over 300

  • Salt

BUY under 150
SELL over 270

  • Oil

BUY under 320
SELL over 450

  • Tools

BUY under 380
SELL over 450

  • Velvet

BUY under 700
SELL over 950-1000

  • Wine

BUY under 200
SELL over 300

  • Spice

BUY under 600
SELL over 800

  • Flax

BUY under 100
SELL over 150

  • Linen

BUY under 220
SELL over 350

*Wool Cloth

BUY under 200
SELL over 270

Filler Goods:

Buy to avoid travelling empty if the above are not available.

*Date Fruit

BUY under 70
SELL over 120

  • Fish

BUY under 30
SELL over 100

  • Hides

BUY under 90
SELL over 100

  • Grain

BUY under 30
SELL over 50

The Trade Route

If you have inventory space between towns, stop in villages on the route and buy cheap items. Buy a large variety of food from those villages to keep your army fed and morale high. The money spent in villages also increases prosperity of the region.


Here is an image with the route described below.


The format below is:

#. Location:
BUY UNDER: Item Price (only buy under this price, if the price is over then leave it.)
SELL OVER: Item Price (only sell over this price, if the profit is lower then keep it.)


  1. Ruvar, a village near Wercheg:
    BUY UNDER: Salt 150

  2. Wercheg:
    BUY UNDER: Salt 150
    BUY UNDER: Hides 90

  3. Curaw:
    BUY UNDER: Iron 150
    BUY UNDER: Tools 380
    SELL OVER: Salt 270

  4. Ismarala, a village near Curaw:
    BUY UNDER: Iron 150

  5. Fenada, a village near Sargoth:
    BUY UNDER: Flax 100

  6. Sargoth:
    SELL OVER: Salt 270

  7. Tihr:
    SELL OVER: Iron 300
    SELL OVER: Tools 450

  8. Kwynn, a village near Sargoth:
    BUY UNDER: Flax 100

  9. Sargoth:
    BUY UNDER: Flax 100
    BUY UNDER: Linen 220
    BUY UNDER: Wool 70

  10. Uxkhal:
    SELL OVER: Hides 100
    SELL OVER: Wool 120

  11. Suno:
    BUY UNDER: Oil 320
    BUY UNDER: Wine 200

  12. Shariz:
    BUY UNDER: Date Fruits 70
    SELL OVER: Linen 350
    SELL OVER: Wine 300

  13. Durquba:
    SELL OVER: Flax 150

  14. Ahmerrad:
    BUY UNDER: Iron 150
    BUY UNDER: Wool 70
    SELL OVER: Wine 300

  15. Bariyye:
    BUY UNDER: Date Fruit 70
    BUY UNDER: Iron 150
    BUY UNDER: Salt 150
    BUY UNDER: Tools 380
    SELL OVER: Linen 350
    SELL OVER: Wine 300
    SELL OVER: Wool 120

  16. Iqbal, a village near Bariyye:
    BUY UNDER: Salt 150
    BUY UNDER: Date Fruit 70

  17. Fishara, a village near Bariyye:
    BUY UNDER: Salt 150
    BUY UNDER: Date Fruit 70

  18. Uzgha, a village near Ahmerrad:
    BUY UNDER: Iron 150

  19. Tulga:
    BUY UNDER: Spice 600
    BUY UNDER: Salt 150
    SELL OVER: Iron 300
    SELL OVER: Date Fruits 120

  20. Ahmerrad:
    BUY UNDER: Iron 150
    SELL OVER: Spice 800

  21. Durquba:
    SELL OVER: Spice 800

  22. Jelkala:
    BUY UNDER: Velvet 700
    BUY UNDER: Fish 30
    BUY UNDER: Hides 90
    SELL OVER: Iron 300
    SELL OVER: Salt 270
    SELL OVER: Tools 450

  23. Veluca:
    BUY UNDER: Grain 30
    BUY UNDER: Hides 90
    SELL OVER: Fish 90
    SELL OVER: Velvet 950

  24. Uxkhal:
    SELL OVER: Grain 50
    SELL OVER: Hides 100
    SELL OVER: Salt 270

  25. Suno:
    BUY UNDER: Oil 320
    BUY UNDER: Wine 150
    SELL OVER: Grain 50
    SELL OVER: Hides 100
    SELL OVER:Salt 270

  26. Praven:
    BUY UNDER: Wool 70
    SELL OVER: Oil 450
    SELL OVER: Salt 270

  27. Yalen:
    BUY UNDER: Wine 200
    BUY UNDER: Wool 70
    SELL OVER: Salt 270

  28. Jelkala:
    BUY UNDER: Fish 30
    BUY UNDER: Velvet 700

  29. Shariz:
    BUY UNDER: Date Fruit 70
    SELL OVER: Fish 100
    SELL OVER: Wine 300

  30. Dhirim:
    BUY UNDER: Iron 150
    SELL OVER: Velvet 1000

  31. Optional:
    Visit Narra and Ichamur, sell according to thresholds.

  32. Tulga:
    BUY UNDER: Spice 600
    SELL OVER: Iron 300
    SELL OVER: Wool 120

  33. Bariyye:
    BUY UNDER: Iron 150
    SELL OVER: Velvet 1000

  34. Ahmerrad:
    BUY UNDER: Iron 150
    BUY UNDER: Wool Cloth 200
    SELL OVER: Spice 800

  35. Durquba:
    SELL OVER: Spice 800

  36. Halmar:
    BUY UNDER: Salt 150

  37. Dhirim:
    BUY UNDER: Iron 150
    SELL OVER: Wool Cloth 270

  38. Reyvadin:
    SELL OVER: Iron 300

  39. Khudan:
    SELL OVER: Iron 300

  40. Rivacheg:
    SELL OVER: Iron 300


Conclusion

If anyone has questions, feel free to ask.

This is only one of many trade routes you could take in the game and will obviously change depending on tensions and wars in your playthrough.

The above route does not include some trade materials, such as raw silk and olives, but is still an absolute benefit to any upstart merchants.

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