Vale Outlaws

The road-rabble the Greycloaks recruit from — desperate men with stolen steel who try their luck on a lone traveller.

Below the Greycloaks proper are the freelancers: a knife in a ditch, a cutthroat who picked the wrong mark, an outlaw who calls himself a king because he leads four others. They fight dirty and break when it turns, but a pack of them on a dark road is still a pack. The Greycloaks let them work the edges and skim the take — the outlaws who survive long enough get a grey cloak.