Appears to be a rude word to many, automatically considered abuse by default

like it is against some kind of cosmic law by others. It's just an action

that one individual initiates over another with varying degrees of harshness

and consequences, just as death.

If an LW is simply handed 20 lestagii, and then loses the same 20 lestagii

to an evil sorcerer 10 minutes later, so what? Easy come easy go. If they

worked their ass off for 2 weeks to get that lestagii and then had it

casually stripped from them then the offense is far greater, but morally

no different.

In the days Allanon was referring to it was never worth stripping anyone

because most people didn't have much worth stripping. Potions were a luxory

and people who actually used them tended to be alchemists or very the very

elite. Likewise herbs and poisons were in the realms of only those guilds

that could actually pick them.

If you wish to alleviate some of the difficulty and trauma LW's go through

then I would encourage you all not to kit them out in such fancy gear. The

only reason they could possibly 'need' such things is to match their peers

who have also been given too many goodies. What they never had they will not

miss.

This will not solve the problem entirely as some will still strip purely

out of sadism, but honestly the only motivation I can think of for an evil

person to do that (and believe me I know the mindset) is to evoke the sort

of reaction that this act typically gets and the notoriety that comes with

it. In a way you all contribute to the problem without even realising it

because you have a narrow perspective on life.

Nostradamus.

Written by my hand on the 15th of Midsummer, in the year 1160.