: True enough--though a captain who leans too hard on his
: men and has them flogged if they don't hold their
: pinky correctly while drinking their wizard-generated
: tea is going to get fragged--the Legion seems to
: operate pretty autonomously and spend a great deal of
: time in the field away from direct supervision of
: higher-ups. Maybe that's where all the pirates and
: brigands come from--battalions whose commanders were
: TOO noble to be borne.
That indeed might be where the _brigands_ come from, but the pirates, I think not. The Legion has no sea training involved (that we know of) and it just wouldn't make sense for a deserter trained in land combat to take to the seas. There is however the island nation of Leix who's traid seems to be pirates. I imagine they're tactics consist of raids on coastal villages and towns, then retreating back into the oceans. Their homeland is either unknown to any but them, or impregnible from the sea, especially against the West, as they're focus is most certainly _not_ on ships.
: Sure, and they get hunted down pretty ruthlessly--though
: enough survive to become pirates or brigands that they
: represent a real problem, real enough to be commented
: on in flavor texts.
As to thier rarity, remember that they _can_ find employment other than blatant robbery, we see in the levels "Into the Breach" and "The Baron" that they have no problem finding employment with rogue nobles, or those who simply wish to have a personal army. I'm led to believe that Brigands in Myth are not so much cut-purses, as they are mercenaries. As such they're numbers can be explained by the amount of money they are making. It's likely that they don't make all that much in the Legion, so once you've been trained in cobat by them, why not defect and go join some disenfranchised noble's personal guard for much more pay and luxuries?
: Wellington
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