[@VitaVitaAR] makes sense. I would say whoever Daybt’s biological father was [i]is[/i] a Nem, so not too much of a risk for the mother. He simply doesn’t know who the man was.

And yeah I would expect Dayvt’s old job as a Ransom Broker wouldn’t exactly fly in Estival, and serves mostly to enable some more “Black Market” contacts and explain Dayvt’s personality. That being said I would like to mention that Dayvt wasn’t strictly speaking a Slaver: most of not all of the people he ransomed are usually just soldiers, and what few civilians that did fall into his hands were usually captured camp followers and the like. 

As for the nobility, while Dayvt himself probs never fought anyone worth the title his mentor certainly did, and between the choices of “killing a noble in battle” or “keep them for ransom”, the pragmatic of the two would’ve been to keep the noble alive if a mercenary can sell him off. If nothing else whoever hired Dayvt’s mentor would probably pay him a nice bounty for the capture of live nobility, further incentivizing taking people in alive. Really being able to sell people into slavery instead of killing them outright is what gives Dayvt his warped sense of morality.