- Raiders are red, attackable NPCs that show up periodically in the cities impacted by civil unrest.
- They appear at irregular intervals; if there's any pattern or obvious determinant I've missed it totally.
- Their coming is heralded by the town criers and the Sherry the Mouse statues.
- There are several types of raiders which appear to more or less correspond with various NPC types. For example, some are clearly healers, some are clearly bow-wielding rangers, etc.
- The fictional implication is that they are visiting from another city. The unrest has, for them, gone beyond protesting and rioting into active aggression.
- They smack talk to you just as their equivalent NPC does, "bad with weapon," "but a scratch," "thou dost hit only air," etc.
- One appears to gain city loyalty more-or-less normally from killing raiders.
- One gains loyalty in the raided city.
- One does not appear to lose loyalty to anyplace solely or directly from killing the raiders.
- However, when you go back to helping your main city again you appear to lose loyalty in the city you helped with the raiders all-the-faster. (I.e., from neutral to negative.)
- The raiders are not repond slayer. (I mention this because they are human so thinking they would be is logical. However, sometimes but not always, the repond slayer has been described as humanoid but not human, and sometimes as all humanoids, including humans.)
- The raiders are not a difficult fight per se but aren't easy either. (Do not let your attention flag especially when fighting more than one at once.
- After their health is low they can be bound with the same rope you use to arrest rioters, and brought to the same NPC for arrest.
- One gains loyalty from arresting raiders.
- Though NPC dialogue implies you cake them back to their home city, I am unaware of how to do this and I am unaware of anyone finding out where a raider's home city is.
- The raiders have very respectable Shame/Wong style loot. My best piece is an un-cursed bracelet with SSI, HCI, DI, and some stat bonus.
-Galen's player