True, but the only ones we ever meet who really are that desperate are Hinata, Yuzu and Kiri, so they're the only ones who get a pass for trying to force the issue. The ones we encounter in the Frostwood don't seem close to that stage whenever we encounter them, and neither are Miko and Mai during their initial encounter; I'm pretty sure they could all afford to take 'no' for an answer and try to find a willing meal elsewhere.
Exactly. All of the members of Hinata's group were both starving and craving essence by the time we find them, so they couldn't even resort to feeding off of each other - something Frostwood kitsune can do easily if they were truly driven to the brink by their vampiric hunger.
She has also shown that she is utterly incapable of vetting and controlling those she hires, to a point were her mercenaries did next to nothing to the main threats and eventually became brigands in all but name.
To be eminently fair, the boreal elves enjoyed those attacks so much that they all kept volunteering to patrol those areas.
That's not what I'm saying at all. Kitsune are just in the wrong as any other rapist beings.. just because they're hungry, don't mean they can't understand the word no.
If that was an option the whole region would be an empty place really fast in my game XD. Which in turn actually would make the roads safer for ppl to travel again. Story wise this would be amazing since would impact everything with your actions or inactions. Gameplay wise, ouch, I imagine the pain it would be to code everything.
But it seems that the common way to solve such incidents in Frost Marches is fuck back. I mean rape back, probably.
As the Mercs proved, they are useless bunch of rapists that do more harm than good. Lieutenant proved that she is an ungrateful bitch that should be nowhere neer place of command since she attacks people that were just countering back in self defence. And Leofric proves that while he once was maybe a leader, now he is nothing more than a shell of his former self with abandoning his post and letting all the ruffians run a mock. And not accomplishing what they were payed there for.
From the champion's point of view, the lieutenant's attack made no sense, and rightly so. But based on Jen's performance in the series, it's not so much her malice as her lack of understanding of the team. After the departure of the original commander, she did not know how to lead the team, and could only protect the team as a soldier.
You can't have an isolated civilian population on a defensive war footing for a lengthy period of time, because those people need to eat and if it's the civilians that are doing the fighting then they're not doing the farming.
Well, you need to realize that Frost Marches were annexed by the empire and Lupines were the original Lords of this place. Carmen could rely on the imperial army, on mercenaries, but it was never possible to raise an army of lupines. It would be detrimental to her rule here.
I mean, SOMEBODY's got to keep the place safe, and nobody else is up to the job. I don't know if it's "good", but it's not like we're spoiled for choice. Unless you're suggesting leaving Gwyn and the nursery and whoever else you care about in Hawkethorne under the protection of Garrett, the dude who got pwned by the priestess of a dying power, or, worse, Sanders, the dude who was willing to let an innocent girl be sacrificed provided it meant he didn't have to hurt the cultists doing the sacrificing........It seems that Carmen is either an incompetent coward or a sinister bastard. Is it really good to be the champion here?
Sorry, what I'm worried about is the possibility that K Dash mentioned. That she chose to hire a group of apparently unreliable mercenaries for the sake of local rule. If she chooses to hurt the townspeople for her own power, then I must consider the propriety of accepting her title of champion.
that what i worried. Marked Merks not just a defensive force, it's a controlled deterrent to the locals. If this is her idea then the champion has to be careful about being betrayed.
From what I gather (again, take into account that due to the order I played things my playthrough's arc for the Marked Merk is all over the place), the MM weren't really unreliable. Their previous contract decimated their cavalry forces, so Leofric hired a bunch of newbies to fill in the gaps, took the Baroness's contract as a way to train them, and it's apparently the newbies that are the source of the issues, because, again, Leofric fucked off for his vision quest and Jen has all the commanding ability of a dead vole. That previous contract was apparently against orcs, so they were probably hired on their good reputation and orc-fighting experience. It's just that the current incarnation of the MM's is responsible for neither of those.
hey man, you don't get the point. What matters is not what MM going on, but is why Carmen choice them. You told that people need to work for food. But for Lupines which have a mercenary tradition, I think is not too hard for them to balance the work and battle, like Garth's wife.
No offense, but it seems like is Gweyr who caused the last Lupines group to break up. Through her determined method.......
What Imperial army?
That's not how a mercenary tradition works. Remember those lupine ghosts you meet in the Foothills fortress? Those dudes did absolutely no work. They didn't farm. They probably did a bit of hunting, but certainly not enough to keep themselves fed. Mercenaries fight (or garrison) to get money, and then they use that money to buy food so they don't starve. If they can't use money to buy food, they pillage. In fact, they probably pillage anyway. But both pillaging and buying presumes there's food being produced, and that doesn't happen when every local spends their time fighting orcs and demons and the roads are so absolutely fucked up that you can't get any merchants in, except if those merchants are Kohaku who'd make an absolute killing bankrupting these people by selling them food. And she WOULD bankrupt them, because if all these people are fighting and not pillaging, then they produce absolutely nothing of value to trade.
