Brigand

 

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Brigands are violent, armed, usually humanoid outlaws. Thievery has been in existence ever since people had anything worth taking, but when orderly societies came about, chief of which was the Aelyrian Kingdom, those who wished to live outside of laws took to the woodlands and the surrounding wilderness. In time, these heathens became outlaws, usually well armed and moderately well organized, and began to roam the countryside as highwaymen and bandits. Similar to their maritime bretheren, the Pirates, Brigands have routinely plagued Aelyria, though in the East they were almost routed entirely by military operations towards the late Kingdom and early First Empire. Today, Brigands exist in very small gangs; the last major Brigand army was defeated in Centripax, though there have been periodic Brigand uprisings to the West, the most famous of which was the Brigand Invasion of Mystique towards the end of the Third Empire, believed to have been backed by dissident factions within the Xet Alliance.