Unfortunately, there's nothing very surprising around the purchase of the relics. They went to private collectors and those with money to burn, or were auctioned off for charity. Some of the buyers were likely interested in the time period or place the relics came from, some bought them as status symbols, and some just bought them because they were beautiful or rare.
As for the trains, the UN took over after the destruction of North America and began building the megacities then. It was only after the megacities were established that the network of trains was built. Prior to that, there was no plan to link North America to any sort of global train network. As far as Yennefer's research will tell her, the trains were simply an attempt to connect far flung locations that were now under control of a global government. The trains themselves were built largely by local contractors, and not any one corporation. Most of those specific contractors have been lost to time, but they likely wouldn't be of any interest to Yennefer, anyway.
We encourage you to have Yennefer draw her own conclusions and chase those leads, since we meant for this to be more straightforward - so if you have any ideas for where to go from here, we welcome them!
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Unfortunately, there's nothing very surprising around the purchase of the relics. They went to private collectors and those with money to burn, or were auctioned off for charity. Some of the buyers were likely interested in the time period or place the relics came from, some bought them as status symbols, and some just bought them because they were beautiful or rare.
As for the trains, the UN took over after the destruction of North America and began building the megacities then. It was only after the megacities were established that the network of trains was built. Prior to that, there was no plan to link North America to any sort of global train network. As far as Yennefer's research will tell her, the trains were simply an attempt to connect far flung locations that were now under control of a global government. The trains themselves were built largely by local contractors, and not any one corporation. Most of those specific contractors have been lost to time, but they likely wouldn't be of any interest to Yennefer, anyway.
We encourage you to have Yennefer draw her own conclusions and chase those leads, since we meant for this to be more straightforward - so if you have any ideas for where to go from here, we welcome them!