Kotuishuth

The Kotuishuth was a tribe that lived on the far western cusps of the Kaivasa region, a rocky region with harsh cliffs facing the Arctic ocean. The people of this region are talented fishermen and bone carvers. Their diet consisting of fish and sea mammals, they treasured a style of knife made with a forward carving blade much akin to a bird’s claw, which sliced easily through the thick fat surrounding the rich meat of their primary food sources. For long periods they practiced no agriculture, as their rocky homeland did not support much soil nutrition and tectonic activity just south of them could cause fissures to open where once you’d laid your field. After they started to settle, they spread out to the East into the plains and developed a method for farming tubers that greatly enriched their prospects, providing a new traceable material that was cheap to produce and filling to eat. This nitrogen-fixing tuber, called Zang grows especially well when fed a diet of Mutane waste and fish bones. The most successful Kotuishuth farmers would spend a considerable amount of time and goods on Mutane fertilizer. When they became subjects to Afiligua, the Kotuishuth ancestral fishing waters were strictly regulated by the Lesser King to prevent an over-abundance of wealth falling into the hands of the fiefs. Each Kotuishuth man was allowed only a certain number of fish per net, lest he be severely taxed. These taxes were variable depending on the High King’s rotating tax rate. Since the fall of the Afiligua occupation of Kotuishuth lands, the fishing rights to the area have since been granted to the UPK government, who regulates fishing licenses and assigns roles to the labor force, ensuring that both fields and boats are well stocked with young workers capable of providing resources for ration distribution and military support.