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One of the first practical problem an adventurer can run into when traveling through Felarya is finding out that their money is worth litteraly nothing. Felarya uses its own currency, as well as several of the most common types found in the universe such as gols, platalis, Kejdoran shkings, yolems, rainbow pearls, and tetros. Most normal transactions on Felarya are made in skevols, the local currency, minted by Negav. Larger ones are in Faldong gems or various local gemstones, and the greatest exchanges (such as buying a space battle cruiser or an imperial palace) being negotiated in pure ascarlin. This goes for most humanoid races, although some neko tribes possess their own currency as well. Most of the sentient predators have little interest in money.

Currency Rate

Skevols (SK) are the local currency used by humans on Felarya. They come in shiny one inche ornated coins made of Tessium. There are coins of 1, 5, 10, and 50 Skevols. for small transactions, Skedas (SKD) are used. They are esentially small skevols coins. 100 of them are worth a Skevol.

Based on universal rates :

• 1 Skevol is worth 12 Platalis

• 1 Skevol is worth 2 Kejdoran shkings

• 2 Skevols are worth 1 Gol

• 5 Skevols are worth 1 Yolem

• 120 Skevols are worth 1 Tetros

• 200 Skevols are worth 1 Rainbow pearl

Faldong gems (FG) are the second most used currency in Felarya, for important transactions. They appear as a small bright red gem, slighty warm to the touch, with always the same, slighty flower-shaped Rosakis cut and the same weight ( Hence the popular expression " to give flowers to someone", meaning paying them ) A 1 carat Faldong gem of a rosakis cut is worth 100 Skevols.

For huge transactions, people ressort to raw, pure Ascarlin (ASC). Even a tiny fragment of Ascarlin is easily worth 50 000 SK.

Here are some examples of what you can buy with Skevols :

Inn stay (per day)

• Good : 25 SK

• Common : 6 SK

• Poor : 2 SK

Poor accommodations at an inn means a slighty heated room, with dubious cleanliness and the bare minimum. A common one consist of a well heated room with comfortable blanket and pillow. A Good accommodations means a comfy chamber with a large bed, a bathroom, a living room with books, table and chairs.

Meals (per day)

• Good : 5 SK

• Common : 3 SK

• Poor : 1 SK

• Peasant clothes : 10 SK

• A Traveler’s outfit : 80 SK

• A solid adventurer’s outfit : 1 FG 50 SK

• A Noble’s costume : 7 FG

It's interesting to note that Negavians are extremely cautious on the concept of virtual money such as bank notes. There are many horror stories of entire worlds collapsing and being ruined by such system running out of hand. Proposing such deal to a Merchant in Negav will earn you a hard look and will even end the transaction in most cases.