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Message: <blockquote data-quote="On Puget Sound" data-source="post: 5752109" data-attributes="member: 68988">Reymus should defeat them easily.  Almost trivially.  But it's a waste of potential to kill such resourceful enemies (the classic villainous overconfidence).So after capturing some and probably killing a few, he explains what use he has for them, and why they have no choice but to cooperate.  Either he has a big bargaining chip (if you want this village to survive...), or unassailable logic (yes, I'm evil, but I'm all that stands between the world and a full-scale Far Realm invasion), or a compulsion, magic or otherwise (you may notice you're all wearing collars.  If I give the command, or if you tinker with them, or if I die, they explode), or even a social reason (our society needs the Grey Guards as a symbol, it's all that stops the Margovians and Kilindians from killing each other over their ancient feuds.  If you expose me, the country will erupt in disastrous civil war).Then he sends them on their way, to do something that is kind of sort of heroic but which they know is also serving Reymus' ends, and giving them a few more levels to work  out a solution to the problem.</blockquote>