Tallow-tax
The tallow-tax was a business model used by the Tallow-hats. They would attack a merchant ship carrying phrax crystals, then escort the ship back to a phrax mine. The mine sergeant there would re-stamp the cargo, so that he could sell the same phrax twice to the Academy of Flight. In return, the Tallow-hats got payed the tallow-tax.[1]
Role in The Descenders
Danton Clore and his fellow tallow-hats were betrayed by Splinters, a spy for Quove Lentis: instead of the mine sergeant with their money, a squadron of Freeglade Lancers were waiting for the Tallow-hats at the mine. Clore suspected that, as Lennius Grex was no longer Phrax Commander, their scheme would no longer work, and the Tallow-hats would need to turn their attention to New Sanctaphrax.[1]
References
- 1 2 The Descenders, Chapter 15
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