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Who are the Sixty Thieves?
By: Tact Date: December 5, 2015, 12:59 pm
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[tt]Who are the Sixty Thieves?[/tt]
The Sixty Thieves consist of a colourful variety of crooks,
criminals and low-lives, coming from many different backgrounds
and walks of life, and led by similarly different motivations.
While many thieves are in the business for the money, some
regard their profession as a way of striking back at a society
that so cruelly discarded them, and a rarer few have a more
heroic attitude, of relieving the rich of their money to help
the less fortunate in the war-riddled world. Either way, the
thieves live their life by blood and silver, and every coin is a
victory to be treasured.
The thieves like to refer to themselves as a family, held
together by a mutually beneficial relationship. In exchange for
a small cut from all earnings, the family provides protection,
shelter and insurance for its members, as well as resources and
aid in pulling off bigger heists. It also offers a place to form
bonds of trust a rare luxury in the criminal underworld. The
thieves need to be able to count on each other to survive, and
so each thief safeguards the secrets of their fellow, knowing
full well the damning evidence against them their companions
could provide, should they betray their oaths. Friendship and
trust are encouraged between members, and a family atmosphere is
endorsed, as members are most often outcasts with no family or
home of their own. The Sixty Thieves look after their own.
[tt]What do they do?[/tt]
The Sixty Thieves commit a variety of crimes as they work
towards their goals. These acts include but are not limited to
petty thievery such as pickpocketing, muggings, and burglary,
as well as less hands-on acts such as blackmailing, scamming,
and dealing various narcotics and stolen goods on the nightly
city streets. Similarly, the thieves are infamous for pulling
off occasional bigger heists, targeting anyone and anything rich
enough to sate their ever-growing greed or simply to stay
alive. In the past, many higher-scale burglaries and caravan
raids have been attributed to the Sixty Thieves.
Although some members of the family may not be shy to resort to
violence, it is known that at least in principle the family
tries to refrain from inflicting unnecessary bloodshed. Corpses
draw attention, attention brews trouble, and trouble heralds
more corpses; forming a vicious cycle that the family likes to
avoid. With this in mind, the Sixty Thieves are willing to carry
out a variety of contracts given to them by outsiders granted
that theyve got the coin whether it is to do with roughening
up troublesome individuals, or retrieving or transporting items
of interest. The gang is up for near everything that is within
the boundaries of their code and skill set, so long as a
reasonably scaled promise of coin is involved.
[tt]How to find them?[/tt]
The family's presence would likely seem most apparent in the
towns of Ratchet and Booty Bay, which offer plenty of
opportunities for those walking the path of crime owing to their
neutrality and ever-so-busy ports. Thus, those interested in
becoming a part of the family would probably begin their search
there. It is also not unlikely to bump into a thief in one of
the racial cities, particularly Orgrimmar; being highly
populated as the capital of the Horde, with countless pockets
waiting to be emptied. However, it should be kept in mind that
the thieves tend to go into greater extents to conceal their
identity when operating within Horde territory.
A member of the Sixty Thieves can also be recognized by a scar
or brand in the shape of a cross if one knows to look for it
, which stands somewhere on their flesh as a symbol of their
undying loyalty to the Thief's Code and their contribution to
the good of the family. More rarely, a thief might be seen clad
in a brown piece of cloth with a printed golden cross across the
chest, shameless and unafraid to show their affiliation with the
Sixty Thieves, for good or ill.
[tt]How would one go about joining them?[/tt]
Upon contacting the Sixty Thieves with the intention of joining
their ranks, the potential initiate is brought to those often
considered the most skilled and able members of the family who
also act as its leading figures. They will scrutinize the skill
and trustworthiness of the individual, deciding whether they
might have a place in the family. Obviously, the thieves are
more inclined to recruit lowly slum dogs with nothing to lose,
and who will therefore dedicate themselves most enthusiastically
to the family, and to thievery in general.
Whilst joining the Sixty Thieves opens plenty of opportunities
for those walking the path of a criminal, applying can also mean
closing certain doors. It should be kept in mind that though the
family cannot always keep track of everyone's goings and doings,
seeking to abandon or betray it is heavily frowned upon. Many of
those who have attempted such, have seemed to perhaps rather
discouragingly disappear with naught but rumors speculating
their fate. Loyalty and security are valued above all else.
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