You ask him to wait for the merchants as they're coming here in few days time.
"Great! I will personally see to it that they're brought to justice!" He takes a guest chamber all for himself.
The Xanga come two days after the nobleman's arrival, and the guards report that they wear naught but loincloths and skins that are yellow and with black patches. And that they brought two large quadruped reptiles with them that have spikes protruding from their backs that have a diamond shape.
There is nine Xanga total; most of them brown and tan, none black. All of them have orange and red ridges. The smallest of them has red eyes, like its brethren and its ridges are much smoother. Four of the Xanga, including the smallest one, wield tridents made of metal and redwood.
"I am Issshad Nah. I am of Xanga, and I hear many beasssst this land. Ssso we come to trade beast for beastssskins. And to see first of humans of far land." The larger Xanga bring forth and deposit various skins at the steps of your throne; orange skins with black patches, yellow with black patches, black-and-white striped skin, greyish skin that looks rather tough. Most of them are unworked, but there are a couple of colorful belts, and a cloak with hood, made from delicate black fur-like material.
A) Thank them for the gifts and say that their traders are welcome in Luathbas.
B) Thank them for the gifts, but say that if beastskins are the only things they have, you don't see any profitable trade here.
C) Ask about the slain son of the nobleman first.