Page 24 of EP3 (At the Festival)

 Master Butcher Giten is quite excited after having a moment to inspect the actinia. The caged talyxian beast  is both of considerable size and one of the finest specimens the old  butcher has ever laid eyes upon. He is already beginning to think about  the bountiful variety of meat cuts available for harvest from its body  upon being slain, in particular its liver.

 However, much to Giten's chagrin, a new character is introduced: an agudner  merchant and business rival of Giten who is also in the meat processing  industry! Most of Giten's business rivals are agudners, and they can  process talyxian creatures  such as cows and horses efficiently. They have guilds with many active  members, who work together to process the meat, skin, and organs for  sale.

 While Giten also has some assistants of his own, he generally prefers to  work on creatures by himself — especially ones that are still alive for  the freshest of meat. Giten also has an uncanny ability to determine  the quality of ingredients normally unknown to others due to his  excellent intuition — a trait common to sergals.  Contrasting to this, his agudner merchant rivals focus on industrial  advancements to compete in the marketplace. Because of this, they seek  out high quality ingredients as well as financial gains as bartering was  the main way of trade in this era. In the case of the actinia in  question, its liver is the most prized part that the rivals are seeking  to claim.

 There is a process in place for how merchants vie for acquiring  harvesting rights, generally in a bidding system. The bidding is carried  out after the end of the gladiatorial show and the talyxian carcasses  are removed from the arena. Those who want meat and other extracted  materials and organs are allowed to bid using money known as Cevia or items with significant value attached to them in a bartering system.

 Each merchant involved in bidding on the creature processing industry  attends these arena events, but their real goal is to carefully watch  how each creature is slain. They then calculate the general worth of the  creature in anticipation for how much to bid after the game in order to  maximize profits. For instance, a novice merchant may be gulled into a  bidding war and stuck overpaying for a creature with low value due to  damaged organs.

 Regarding the upcoming battle with the actinia,  only the strongest and most skilled fighters will be selected to face  off against it. Because actinias are one of the most violent and  dangerous of creatures  to contest with, a lesser-skilled warrior would be in danger. But just  as bad, someone with anything less than combat mastery could damage the  prized organs that the butchers are coveting. A miscalculated strike  could rupture the prized liver and ruin it, yielding a lower value to  the payoff. But who could be so skilled to land a killing blow without  damaging these precious commodities? Don't miss who will accomplish such  a difficult feat!