Talk:Raven Branwen/@comment-70.83.104.138-20171118052438/@comment-26018514-20171119014340

Even if she has the power to do so, crushing rules such as that are contrary to tribal norms, so she would need to feel extremely strongly that it should never happen to do so... and her "strong live, weak die" philosophy does not say slavery is wrong, just that those fools who rely on it are easy targets, so she probably won't let members pursue slaves themselves, and she won't store a ton at her camp so as not to attract Grimm, but leveraging the occasional survivor/hostage for years worth of needed supplies? There is no way a leader would tell their underlings that is not OK when said underlings do worse just to survive.

In short, that they don't do this often says more about her position than that they do this occasionally, because most likely she is the one who educates the others as to reasons they should not take a hostage, as she is the most educated.