Truffle Races

The Truffle Races, also known as the Truffle Wars, were a series of conflicts between Caphiria and Burgundie in the late-Renaissance period (1574-1602) to locate, cultivate, and harvest rare truffles around the world. Throughout most of the 1570s-1590s the conflict was contained to the Odoneru Ocean, Sea of Canete, and Sea of Istroya, but dealing with established relationships and networks of alliances was costly and slow. In the early 1590s a Caphirian explorer found truffles in the Emirate of Zaclaria and the races turned into a violent geopolitical struggle for the southern entrance to the Aab-e-Farus.

=Participants=
 * Caphirian Third Imperium (1574-1602)
 * Burgoignesc Duchy of Marialanus (1574 - 1593)
 * Burgoignesc Duchy of Bourgondi (1576 - 1602)
 * Burgoignesc Duchy of Martilles (1578 - 1601)

=Major Events/Outcomes= It saw a massive investment in the Imperial Naval Fleet and merchant marine of Caphiria and likewise the various navies of the coastal Latium and their merchant fleets/trading companies. It largely faded out as a specific conflict when the Burgoignesc duchies shifted their focus to colonization and generalized raw material extraction as opposed to resource-specific forays.

In the Levantine sphere it saw the introduction of which eventually overtook  as the primary ship for overseas navigation.

Chaukira and Zaclaria
While Caphirian explorer Biggus Dixus was charting the shores of the Aab-e-Farus, he came to a large, established port town. TBC....