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Lies lies all lies. Well sort of, so far as I know the trader bought the food on the regular market, just she never asked the lord before doing so.
That's my guess as well. Where it gets more interesting is if she actually offered to return the food afterward like Jenred told her too.
lolol Arcachon...blaming the wrong people too late too little. Back when I had Ramuh in PoZ I was black market(eer?)ing them, but they never seemed to mind. Was lols cuz I had like 5 caravans or something on me.
Meh. At some point Joseph had 1200 bushels of Arcaeachonian food ready to go to the highest bidder. Then he got all soft and gave it away to save a city.