Hey guys, today in this topic I am going to be talking about Mercenaries and Assassins. Now, how many of you have called Assassins edgy or stupid? Im sure some of you have, but in truth, not everyone can assassinate someone on their own. In times like this setting people would employ, you guessed it, either Assassins or Mercenaries. Yet I haven't seen either employed at all, instead I've seen them called edgy and people make fun of them on their posts or threads because they may try to make an assassin guild or a mercenary guild, and it's just disappointing. Yes, militaries may use their own soldiers but citizens normally don't try and assassinate someone themselves, it takes careful planning and is very time-consuming. And to people with little to no experience with combat or don't have as much organization to perform an assassination. So Assassins are not as edgy or as stupid as you think, instead they are quite useful. As for mercenaries, how many times have you seen a mercenary group guard a place or actually do something? Not often, right? Remember, that sometimes there aren't enough guards to help protect your settlement, not to mention you can't just start your own guard for your settlement depending on how big it is. If it's a small hamlet or a small village it wouldn't be easy to start up your own guard-force, which is where Mercenaries come into play. How many of you have played Skyrim and gone to that sinkhole place in the small village in the Reach? Did you think they started their own guard-force? Nope, instead they hired some Mercenaries to protect them, the Mercs get money and the villagers get protection. And in Skyrim there was an Assassins' guild, instead of being called edgy and stupid and not fearing them at all the people were quite afraid of them and tended to hold back all insults on them because they didn't know who was one. So, before you call a Mercenary or an Assassin stupid and edgy just remember how the profession would affect people realistically in this time. Now before you say 'It's a game, it doesn't have to be realistic, there doesn't have to be Mercs or Assassins we can do that stuff on our own', well how much sense would it make for a farmer to make his own guard-force or have the skills of an assassin? Not much. So I end it here, I hope you have a merry christmas and a happy new year.