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Crimson Guard

#1 BlackMoranthofDoom

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Posted 16 October 2010 - 10:23 AM

I didn't quite get why the Crimson Guard were on Lether, since their dealings seem to be with the Malazan Empire.

#2 MTS

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Posted 16 October 2010 - 10:28 AM

The Crimson Guard as a whole wasn't on Lether, only a single Blade - Iron Bars' - was on Lether. They were there because the 4th Company, headed by Cal-Brinn, was on Assail and things went to hell. They were reportedly one of the only Blades to escape Assail, and they washed up on Lether.

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‘Just someone a long way from home, like I said. We clawed our way out of Assail, only to find ourselves here, and just by arriving in our damned sieve of a boat, we owed money. Just by steppin’ onto the dock, we owed more. It’s been seven months, and we’re so far in debt Prince K’azz himself couldn’t clear our way back out. Livin‘ off scraps and doin’ ugly work and it’s rotting us all—‘

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.

Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades.

#3 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 16 October 2010 - 10:48 AM

The Crimson Guard are recruiting. They are everywhere. Other than Seven Cities. That's a hell-hole.

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....