Ryvenport Tobacco Company

Ryvenport Tobacco Company is a large tobacco manufacturer and supplier located in Ryvenport, Auberdor. Both nationally and continentally, it is the largest single tobacco company. Globally, it ranks as the second largest tobacco company just behind W. P. Tofken's Tobacco. Annually, Ryvenport Tobacco plants and harvests all of its tobacco leaves used in production of its smoking goods. Most other non-tobacco smoking substances are imported from Kellerian. Locally, Ryvenport Tobacco Company operates three different stores in the city of Ryvenport, and five other throughout Radorah. The company owns two international stores as well.

History
Not long after the end of the Continental War and the establishment of the Nation of Auberdor, a tobacco farmer named Larkind Smout returned to his plantation in Ryvenport from refuge taken during the war. Smout began growing tobacco in larger quantities due to shortages throughout the rest of the nation, and gained a large following as he began to create his own smoking products such as a cigars and pipes. Smout soon took hold of the tobacco business nationally and eventually became the face of high quality tobacco throughout Radorah with his founding of Ryvenport Tobacco Company two months short of a year after his return to Ryvenport.

After nearly five years of business, Larkind Smout had gained enough profit from his ventures to sell the small stone cottage from which he sold his products in northern Ryvenport. In exchange for this, Smout had a large singular building with multiple rooms built in western Ryvenport, where he opened a new, much larger store and began cultivating a new, larger field for his crops. It was around this time that Smout took on a wife and eventually had a child, forcing him to hire a large amount of workers who would eventually turn the new farm into one of the most successful businesses in Radorah.

Around the year of 4280, Larkind began importing exotic tobbaccos, smoking spices, and smoking weeds to his store, attracting several more customers from miles around. With more than enough money to know what to do with, Larkind began funding national militaries and substantially helped many citizens and governments rebuild from the destruction of the war. By the turn of the century, Larkind became the wealthiest man in Radorah, excluding any royalty.