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<!--professional, fighter and killer. often provoked enemies. fell out with lord over a slave woman that he sold -->
<NPCCharacter id="spc_wanderer_aserai_3" name="{=4GIoPUen}{FIRSTNAME} the Swordsman" voice="softspoken" age="33" default_group="Infantry" is_template="true" is_hero="false" culture="Culture.aserai" occupation="Wanderer">

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<!-- "the swordsman", fell out with lord over a woman -->
<string id="prebackstory.spc_wanderer_aserai_3" text="{=2PZsQPty}I will tell you my story. I haven't... I haven't spoken of this before, to anyone. Perhaps it's the wine here. But know that if you speak of this to anyone else, I'll cut your tongue out." />
<string id="backstory_a.spc_wanderer_aserai_3" text="{=Agbh1AmR}I have a gift... From the Heavens, perhaps, or perhaps from somewhere else. I have never met anyone I could not kill in a fair fight. But I do not like wars. Armies are full of crude men, boasters, drunks, rapists. I have another speciality." />
<string id="backstory_b.spc_wanderer_aserai_3" text="{=33Dzgon7}Say you had a man you wanted killed. Who you would pay to kill. I could find him, bump into him, mutter an insult. He would pull out his blade. And that would be the last mistake he would ever make. But as I said, it would be a fair fight. I do not kill from behind. It is dishonorable." />
<string id="backstory_c.spc_wanderer_aserai_3" text="{=PHVJ9fOm}But there was a lord, a customer of mine, who had no honor. And he refused to pay me. And having no honor, he laughed at my insults. He did not pull his blade. He had his men drive me away. I can kill one man but not three at once. So here I am." />
<string id="response_1.spc_wanderer_aserai_3" text="{=mijieuku}You know, I'm sure you could put your gift to better use." />
<string id="response_2.spc_wanderer_aserai_3" text="{=0dQLkzEw}What you call 'honor'... I'm not sure that's the best word for it." />
<string id="backstory_d.spc_wanderer_aserai_3" text="{=OHFZ9EAk}Mmm.... Well, for now, I do not know what to do with myself. Perhaps I could consider joining a warband, if the commander was well-bred and kept his word." />
<string id="generic_backstory.spc_wanderer_aserai_3" text="{=KNQCoxIJ}I am a sword for hire. Some think us scum but I have my own code of honor. If I kill a man, it must be in a fair fight. My last employer asked me to do something dishonorable, so now I am looking for a new employer." />