Bandit Rumors

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This page contains SPOILERS from Book of Travels.

Rumors are an important part of the Braided Shore. This page is dedicated to keeping track of, organizing, and substantiating the rumors heard in the Braided Shore by generic Bandit, sometimes also known as Lawless, Law Bender, or Bandit Gang Member NPCs. They can also be called Lawless, Law Bender, or something like that.

Unlike other dialogue, rumors are not unique to a single NPC or set of NPCs and may be repeated by multiple random NPC characters primarily in the squares and teahouses of the three towns, Myr, Bat Saha, and Crossings. This distinguishes them from the reports of the Town Reporters. Selka, Malku Su, and Sah Basir NPCs also sometimes speak lore in italics that relates to their culture and these NPCs are identified by race. Those sayings are recorded in the page about each racial group.

In addition many rumors are mutually contradictory, speculative, or cryptic and therefore unreliable. However some have proven to reveal quests, secrets, and game mechanics.

Bandit Solidarity

	Dialogue
	Outside the law and bounded land there rules a quick and shadowed band
	On the flip side of law we are siblings all.
	Outsiders all may find a warm hearth in a bandits' camp.
	A bandit is kin to the wolf.
	A bandit is never alone, For we are many.
	One thief will know another
	Any time you see a group of bandits not arguing, a robbery is taking place
	Folk will be ashamed to know they have a dishonest ancestor in the family. They will be secretly proud to have a bandit!
	If you can choose between being yourself, and being a bandit. Always choose to be a bandit!

Relationship with Law Enforcement

	Dialogue
	The wardens' bells sound grim to me.
	Why join the warden's union when you can join a bandit gang?
	If there were no bad people, what would the wardens busy themselves with?
	In the absence of justice, organised banditry
	We rob people of their valuables, the wardens rob people of their freedoms

Bandit Working Hours

	Dialogue
	Goodbye day! Night falls and bandits reign.
	The Third Bell is the signal to go to work
	By taking I gain The night is my domain
	Dawn breaks and bandits rest until night wakes
	The First Bell is the time for sleep For such as I...
	How sweet, the sound of the Midnight Bell

Threats

	Dialogue
	Wealth weighs down its owner let me lighten your burden.
	Brave or foolish wanderer behold a dark adventurer
	Lost and found Gained and gone A bandit helps with all and one!
	Refuse a bandit and languish as the South Eastern Wind plagues you!
	In shade of night I'll relieve you of your burdens
	What's yours is mine, right?
	I shall come to you by moonlight...

Attitudes towards Violence

	Dialogue
	Profit should never come at the cost of your blood.
	My knife is sharpened and my heart hardened
	I feel no guilt over armed robbery as long as no one gets too badly hurt

Bandit Feelings

	Dialogue
	You must understand that mistakes are not always regrets.
	We are what we take
	Heart and soul grow wilder on the margins of the law
	Everything to hide and all to gain.
	Life demands balance, I'm just on that other side of the scale
	So? Does not common folk rob the fruit tree and the blackberry bush?
	Like all living things, It is a bandit's needs that compels them
	Life is pretty good! I'm a bandit, so why wouldn't it be?
	Rather a life merry and short, than dreary and long

Bandit Beliefs about Shadows

	Dialogue
	Don't fear the moving shadows, tis only the sway of a thief's intent
	Only those that cast two shadows know the true ways of the bandit.
	Best riches are found out of reach of light and law
	Char is the colour of our capes as is the colour of all shadows

Bandit Attitudes Towards Merchants

	Dialogue
	Only amateurs steal from the poor, The professionals start a shop.
	What is a bandit but a business person without a shop?
	The merchant and the bandit, at times can be difficult to tell apart

Bandit Attitudes Towards Wealth Inequality

	Dialogue
	Belongings for all and all shall belong
	Greed is not our creed, but anarchy is in our blood!
	Every possession of every great country started with a crime
	Cold the night! But warm are the pockets of the wealthy
	To my mind blackmail is more a sort of tax, than an actual crime
	Taxation of the poor is worse robbery than what bandits do
	Let yourself be the first to live without life's luxuries. But if you can't do it. Why should I?
	For some of us, banditry is the only way we know to feed our family

Bandit Attitudes Towards Char

	Dialogue
	Char-tinted, full length, hood for the sneak; black bandit garments are ripe for the strike
	Char is my colour as the bright wood burned to a cinder
	Char is the colour of our capes as is the colour of all shadows

Bandit Attitudes Towards Farming

	Dialogue
	A farmer's life? I chose the knife!
	Farming is the only true honest way to live. Unfortunately for you, my honesty does not stretch quite that far

Bandit Strategies for Committing Crimes

	Dialogue
	A packed crowd is the best source of wealth!
	We are but birds in trees, watching for the fattest seeds.
	An ambush is like a dance, it takes practice and exact timing

Scares

	Dialogue
	The threat of the a Scare will teach the bandit to hide better

Loot

	Dialogue
	Treasure is the fruit of a bandit's labour.

Miscellaneous

	Dialogue
	Those who speak the name of Molg must be prepared for the consequences!
	The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the neck scarf
	Variety comes in all shapes and shades, it does not make a criminal
	A bandit is much like a pirate, but without the boat and the salt stained beard