Anno 1800 Item Id List -

He blew out the candle.

He reached the bottom of the page. The last entry was smudged, as if the ink had bled from a dimension that didn't quite exist.

He laughed. A bitter, sooty laugh.

He looked at the first entry.

He folded the list carefully and slid it into the false bottom of his desk drawer. He looked at his own city through the dirty window. Smokestacks belched. The Iron Tower glittered. His influence rating was 1,800. His balance was 12 million. Anno 1800 Item Id List

It was a list.

Not a manifest of steel shipments from Sheffield, nor a roster of rum barrels from the New World. It was a list of names. The Item ID List. He blew out the candle

This was the lie. This was the temptation. Friedrich had used that one too. He had placed it in his heavy weapons factory. The machines ran so fast they glowed cherry red. The workers ate sausage and bread that materialized from thin air because he also had running in the Town Hall. The people never rioted. They never slept. They just… worked.