[quote=@Flagg]
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My mercenaries are going to show up later. I think most of the baddies you'll face now are generic mercs/royal soldiers.
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Well, Harold's tax collectors certainly won't be mercs, so yeah. Royal livery, Harold's own.

Edit: So to summarize for [@Gunther]: Royal troops guarding a tax collector's wagons, one of which has Brand's body there. They are also carrying pay for some of the merc companies. I would say there are other wagons out there, so some mercs will get paid, others won't. Or they'll underpay all of them. Either way, trouble for Harold.