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Theives

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What are the theives doing out there on the road? After killing a group of them, I decided to see what it was like to be a theif, i stood on the road and waited, and waited, and waited, noone ever came by. Are the theives really that dumb?
 

Wolf Mittag

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:) Well, the thieves' main task is to be there for you to fight them. - But sincerely, the way things were in Germania, they may well have had to wait for many days or even weeks for a traveller to pass by. There wasn't much trade or travel in that part of the world at the time.

So it wouldn't have been particularly lucrative to be a robber, and most Germanic robbers would probably have spent their time mainly with hunting or gathering plants, in order to survive. Robbing people would have been only an additional means of income once in a while, whenever there happened to be a chance.

After all, most robbers wouldn't have chosen to live in the woods voluntarily. These people would usually have been run-away slaves who had no chance to return to their native counties/tribes. And for fear of punishment, they couldn't return to the surrounding settlements either.
 
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