Venture Trading Company
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The Venture Trading Company, founded by Mogul Razdunk, is an independent faction (although most of its members are hostile in-game for quest purposes) that operates in Undermine, Ratchet, Mulgore, The Barrens, Azuremyst Isle, and Stonetalon Mountains regions of Kalimdor, as well as Stranglethorn Vale in the Eastern Kingdoms. Largely run and managed by goblins, it employs a few gnomes in high engineering positions. It provides employment to all of the sentient races of Azeroth as laborers, even (perhaps especially) the less intelligent ones such as ogres and gnolls.
The Venture Company is known for spearheading the efforts to reestablish trade routes across eastern Azeroth, to connect isolated goblin trading posts. A growing number of shops in Azeroth have signs declaring that they are owned and operated by the “Venture Company,” which the proprietors claim is headquartered in a faraway city ruled by goblins.LoC 23, 29
The Company runs a mine in eastern Mulgore and harasses the sacred wells of the tauren in that region. Quests relating to the struggle between the two factions are found in and around Bloodhoof Village.
The goblin-run Venture Company has a significant presence in the Stonetalon Mountains, chopping down trees and burning huge stretches of forest in the Windshear Crag basin.
In the Barrens, Venture Co. projects are seen in the northeast corner of the Barrens, most notably in the Sludge Fen, and the Boulder Lode Mine, close to the shores of the Southfury River (and the oft-overlooked western entrance to Orgrimmar).
The Venture Company activities can also be discovered in Stranglethorn Vale, where it is involved in various mining operations.
The Steamwheedle Cartel has been suggested to work with the Venture Company; however, it is unlikely they would as an entity and it is more likely that individuals within the Cartel may cooperate with Venture Co. in order to increase their own profit margins. The shady goblins who run Ratchet are always "keeping their beady eyes on the bottom line."WRPG 191
Also, The Venture Trading Company is known to trade with various shady groups. The Defias Brotherhood is especially known for trading for a powerful poison Venture Co. "acquired" from Zanzil the Outcast, such as in the quest chain of Mathias and the Defias.
Elements of the Venture Company have also entered into the service of Kael'thas Sunstrider, via his agent Engineer "Spark" Overgrind, the emissary of the gnomish High Tinker who accompanied Admiral Odesyus. Kael, via Overgrind, hired the Venture Company to recover the crashed Exodar, a portion of Kael's citadel of Tempest Keep hijacked by the draenei to escape from Outland.
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Wrath of the Lich King
The Venture Co. will make an appearance in the Grizzly Hills of Northrend as they try to deforest the land. [1]
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The Barrens
These members of the Venture Co. are found in the northeast part of the Barrens, the Sludge Fen.
