Aldinean thrall trade

The Nordanian thrall trade refers to the thrall markets that flourished in Nordania and the Mahranian Empire from the 700's to 1820, and which boomed between 1200-1700. The vast majority of the enslaved were Teutonians from Holstein and as Eisareans from Eisarndal along with Karazawans and Oelians. Christians from the Valí peninsula were subject to fast slave raids, in which private Sjealandian companies landed on the shores of the peninsula, abducting young women and men before bringing them back to the thrall markets in Sjealand. The raids increased in distance, first only being centered around Sjealand itself, until it later spread through most of Nordania. From there they were either sold to private Sjealandians, the government, Mahranian merchants, Pleasure Houses or were shipped off to the markets in Tuthina and Akai where exotic northerners had become a luxury. Meanwhile Alemannian warlords captured tens of thousands in their wars against Karazawa and Oelia, making Eisarndal a centre for the Thrall-trade in Nordania

The first slave raids were sporadic attacks committed by small villages or noblemen for loot, with the capture of thralls being a secondary objective. However as thralls were increasingly used in the profitable diamond mines of Sjealand and were quickly dying, the raids became more organised and primarily focused on the capture of people. Eventually a culture around the thrall trade was created, with large Sjealandian markets and mines being worked by captured Nordanian thralls, and the pleasure houses of Asgård and other large cities educating sex-slaves for sale in Tuthina, Akai and eventually christian Nordania itself. The slave trade with the Westerisles also saw the effect of creating several cities on the western Nordanian coast, these slaving cities profited from buying and selling the captured slaves from Sjealand in Conitia and further south, while developing their own slave trade, focused on eunuch slave soldiers.