The Minotaur Trade

Cultural event

The Rekettan empire begins fattening and trading off Taur as meat products that most humans, and even the local Sfixians never tried. A large trade opens up, and by 87csp, its become an event most of common culture knows. It thrives hard as a great thing until the late 300s, where some begin to question and contest with it more, but it goes on for many years even as it exits the golden generations.

In 79csp, a ship expedition piloted by Rekettan lead Wheel-Speaker Breign of Crown Salt, discovered a land the empire mostly didn't touch, and the fellow captain he lead there brought back various odd prisoners and curiosities. With the fleet heading back, he made a deal to have experiments done from Houses Rum & Fang on the Taur specimens he found, and they concluded the meat was good enough to return for, while they were less sure about leather and milking properties. This would later develop into something that became known as the Minotaur Trade, because of some foreign misconceptions of how to name the main beasts.   The trade began once the captain trainee Bira-jon of Crown Rum made some better talks and deals with a K'mosian Sfixian captain, and befriended a local Taur that would become her personal servant. She would be promoted, and earn the honorary title of The Shepard, bringing back a large batch to work with, and starting a trade in meat to last for many years, and even early diplomacy with the locals.   During this trade period...

• The empire set up small K'mosian outposts
• The language connections were stream-lined
• Taur physically changed a bit between ethnical cross-breeding in captivity, and expanding weight averages
• Merfolk became a more studied creature, as they became slightly involved in the trade - mostly as food, but they themselves actually participated in trading.
• Given their more impulsive tendencies to sudden abundances, sfixians of an overwhelming majority started drastically losing shape. Respected soldiers who prided themselves on service before and demanded to stay in charge over humans, were now being caught lazily sleeping, costing more to armor their sizes, and physically ineffective at fighting some fronts of the Ank'shii menace. Their human allies were not impressed, found them more repulsive and ill-mannered, and further issues and quiet divisions hit as some locals clashed on the idea of repelling the trade away. It is believed that this trade indirectly started the path to political turmoil in the land.