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===Recruitment=== The Disfavored are an elite unit that recruits only Northerners. The underlying idea is to ensure that every member of the legion is tied to each other not just through their oaths of fealty, but also blood. Families that stood beside Ashe as he faced Kyros and bent knee together with him are highly respected, although their members are expected to hold their own.<ref>[[Barik]]: "''We would not recruit even a champion of the Tiersmen. Each soldier in the legion is tied by blood and fealty to those that stood with [[Graven Ashe]] during the coming of [[Kyros]]. That is part of who we are, and that will never change.''"</ref> Of course, the exclusive nature of recruitment has several drawbacks. First, the Disfavored have limited numbers and a relatively small recruitment pool, resulting in great difficulties when it comes to replacing battlefield losses. Ashe's Aegis helps in preserving the extant fighting force, as does the tendency to go to great lengths to save captured Disfavored legionaries. Ashe's protectiveness of the men and women under his command is also ruthlessly exploited by cunning enemies, who would force the Disfavored to retreat by threatening them with irreplaceable casualties or trade captives in exchange for truce. Ashe himself can also sabotage the Disfavored with his fatherly tendencies, as was the case when he ordered an assault on [[Sentinel Stand]] in 430 TR, losing several cohorts to the [[Edict of Storms]].<ref>[[Barik]] and [[Graven Ashe]] dialogue hints at this being the case.</ref> Second, this largely arbitrary limitation leads to prejudice against people living outside the Northern Empire, in particular the denizens of [[the Tiers]]. Graven Ashe and his legion consider themselves to be the defenders of civilization fighting against barbaric hordes, believing that the end justifies the means. As a result, the Disfavored are ruthless in their conduct towards the enemy and conquered populations, giving no quarter. Prisoners of war are conscripted as working slaves or put to the sword, villages are put under martial law with capital punishment being common, and any defiance is punished by collective reprisals and destruction of property - up to and including destroying entire towns.<ref>[[Echocall Crossing]] is put to the torch for harboring rebels. Additionally, conduct throughout the Vendrien's Well insurgency and the [[Conquest]] emphasizes the ruthlessness of the Disfavored and their prejudice.</ref> Both of these factors make the Disfavored highly unpopular among the conquered and vanquished. In several cases, the refusal of the Disfavored to take on southerners as fighting thralls has prolonged the conflict. Such was the case in [[Vendrien's Well]], where the [[Vendrien Guard]] would've surrendered to the Disfavored if the legion accepted them as slave warriors, rather than offal or menial laborers. The policies also strain relations with the [[Earthshakers]], half of whom are highly trained southerners. If it wasn't for [[Cairn]]'s interference and protection under Magician's Folly, Ashe would've put the south-born mages to the sword long ago.<Ref>[[Isadora]]</ref>
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