freeing orcs' slaves

[Decanter]

During the Right of Conquest quest, I had the option to try freeing the orc tribe's slaves while I was sneaking toward the chief's tent. However, the text implied that I'd "do more harm than good as things are" if I did that, so I decided to wait. Now I'm Arona's honored mate and so forth, but the option to free the slaves seems gone.

Did I miss something here, or is the text just misleading?

 

[Balaknightfang]

During the quest, you can go back to Pavo to get them weapons. Then you can free them and give them a proper fighting chance

 

[Savin]

Did I miss something here, or is the text just misleading?

You definitely missed something, yes.

 

[kaleemmcintyre]

About Pavo:

If you are an Orc when you enter into the camp you can completely bypass him and the disguise he offers, but after you deal with the chieftain he still ends up in the slave pen.

Is he supposed to have extra content later on or something?

 

[Savin]

About Pavo:

If you are an Orc when you enter into the camp you can completely bypass him and the disguise he offers, but after you deal with the chieftain he still ends up in the slave pen.

Is he supposed to have extra content later on or something?

No. He's going to be replaced by a new orc smith Tobs wrote.

 

[The Observer]

Minor addendum: he may get content, but not as a smith. Hugs has expressed interest in writing content for Pavo; since you're buds with Arona, you can just ask her for him.

 

[StairFacts]

Piggybacking off of this thread as I was stumped on how to free the slaves successfully myself until now, is there any reward (or a planned reward) for setting the slaves free?