The first sighting of humans was by the beastmen of the wolf tribe. The contact was thankfully peaceful and business in nature.
The business became so lucrative that the relationship between the two races was similar to that of brothers .
The first impression of humans by the beastmen was that of a weak but clever and adaptive species.
As for what they thought of the beastmen, ' honest men worthy of trust but slightly rigid'.
During the first phase of the race wars , the humans traded with the lower races and offered advise and weapons. During the attack on the beastmen, the humans offered supplies , intelligence on the enemy and even stopped some of the schemes aimed at the beastmen.
The fact that the humans had gradually integrated into the beastmen society with many forming families among the beastmen.
The fact of the matter is that humans have the ability to breed with all the beastmen races , coupled with their high fertility rate it solved the problem of beastmen low fertility.
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These connections lasted through the war and after. This made the beastmen territory the only place one could find humans , lower races and higher races work together without threat of death .
It was in such a way that the second largest market and economic powerhouse was created. With both a formal and informal alliance formed between humans and beastmen in place ,a period of peace was ushered in that allowed the for the beastmen to recuperate and even take a step forward.
Even after the great contribution of the wolf tribe and the Erasure of the rift between the clans , the leaders of the tiger and lion tribes were still wary of the wolf tribe.
This led to an awkward situation where the humans formed the alliance with the wolf tribe and the alliance being used as their protection against the tiger and lion tribes. This along with the peculiar rules of the wolf tribe that prevent political marriage made it hard for the beast kings to form connections with them leaving them in political isolation.
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It was in such a situation that the Mors trading company and the bloody crows descended upon the beastmen territory.
First came the information division of the bloody crows , they collected , traded and bought information from any source they deemed credible. From the sea urchins to the to the corrupt clan elders. They even got their hands in claws , the beastmen police force / intelligence agencies.
After a few scuffles in the dark , a deal was reached between the two sides . So long as it doesn't harm each other both organizations would turn a blind eye. This deal made the next phase of their plans difficult as field operations was about to arrive.
Upon the arrival of the field operations, another meeting was formed where be a few laws were made .
1.) No killing of children.
2) No killing of high ranking officials and claws.
3)state secrets shall only circulate within the state.
4) the claws shall not overtly harass the crows.
Of course the rules came with some stipulations such as the the second rule is only be applicable when they don't start it.
These strange rules that started as rules between the claws and the crows somehow affected the growing Underworld of the beastmen territory and became enforced by the majority of the Underworld organization.
Along the way more unspoken rules were formed leading to a sort of organized chaos especially after a few organizations disappeared from the map leaving not even a single member untouched.
Certain laws such as those against s like slave trade were easier to enforce as many had a beef to grind with such individuals letalone the fact that the best intelligence organization sold information to the claws themselves.
When the situation finally settled , the entirety of the organization had completely moved in to the beastmen territory.
The Mors trading company finally made their move using a tributary of the blood river to transport and trade goods such as food and rare minerals along the blood river.
A port of sorts was formed at the mouth of the tributary as the Mors trading company had managed to secure a trade route along the blood river.