Poverty Rumors

Take note, Khelim!

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 NPCs who express concern about their economic condition.

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, and therefore unreliable. However some have proven to reveal quests, secrets, and events.

	Dialogue
	Water, wind, bind and beast, all prosper! While a beggar wastes.
	Cold chimes The Midnight Bell to the ears of the poor...
	Bad winds blew at my birth making poverty and hunger my destiny
	Burden of nothing weighs heavy as lead in a beggar's stomach
	Learn equality from poverty and love from woes
	When you have nothing, be hopeful when you have little, be grateful.
	Hunger in a beggar's belly is a beast that can't be tamed
	A cracked and empty bowl such is life for the poor
	In the pouring rain beggars and nobles look the same.
	Oh mighty winds, unravel the wretched knot that keeps me tangled in poverty!
	Old world of machines...what devices must have turned to feed a starving stray!
	Less than nothing and little besides, that's the life of a beggar.
	Bless the poorhouse For soothing the starving.
	Breath and wind are mightier than shoes and food and clothing or so they say.
	Beggar or bear, all we creatures breathe Braided shore air.
	Ask, petition, appeal and plea please give me money for a brew of tea!
	Beggar or noble, the windsong sounds the same.
	Not even the stillest night spares poor folk's plight.