Riftmeat Butcher
Black market butchers who process and sell the illegal and tainted meats of riftbeings.
The events of The Rupture over fifty years ago caused an influx of new (and mostly unwanted) wildlife to ravage the landscapes of Melior and disrupt the balance of local ecosystems. Hunters have joyfully picked up their bows, spears, and traps to take down the grotesque and strange bodies of these unknown beings.
Meat's back off the menu
Many folks hunt for bounties and other hunters do it for the unique pelts and trophies, but a lot of folks do it for the free game. Or at least, they did. People became ridden with horrible afflictions and diseases that surpassed any common stomach bug, and the only known cure for the illness has a terribly wasting side effect called Riftbane Rattles which left many folks suffering with mental trauma and long lasting symptoms. A new public health law has been passed and it is now illegal to consume rift-meat in The Jolundrian Empire. Versions of the law vary in the different countries of the Empire and many settlements still have riftmeat butchers who operate on the sly for good coin, selling the riftmeat disguised in mixed sausages and heavily spiced pies. There’s still good coin to be made for what would otherwise be wasted meat…Fair Game
The only other place to safely sell your hunted rift meat is to the riftguard over at Fort Endié in Anvil, where the tamed rifthounds will happily gorge themselves on any morsel of meat you fling their way (and any bones, too). For many people, places like this are too far away to transport their hefty hunts to, so they still resort to their local black market butchers for a bit of easy coin and a free pack of sausages to take home with them.
Alternative Names
Black market butcher
Type
Culinary
Demand
High
Just be careful with that free pack of sausages. I could see a unscrupulous nobleman feeding rift sausage (or straight rift meat, for that matter) to anyone who blocks his ascension to the throne; Unless, however, rift disease is rare and easily identifiable? Might be easy to trace then.
Riftgut isn't that rare and is also easy to mistake for just a bad case of food poisoning, the symptoms could be pinned to less fortunate folks like the Gutterborn having poor healthcare and quality of life that no one would bat an eyelid... It could certainly be used as a method of control!