Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20160125035940/@comment-25936766-20170420142050

Arkantos95 wrote: Well as Spirit said they'd avoid the killing where they could You'll have to explain that better to me. They could avoid killing, but the fear during the assault, even if not taking anyone, would still attract Grimm.

And since they spend 90% of their time in the ocean and going to port is risky, they have to pillage for a living, and either kill everyone on board any assaulted ship, or take them hostage so they don't do anything themselves.

and as I've said what feels like dozens of times in regards to Raven's bandits, there is no profit/logic in kidnapping/raping people in a world where negative emotions attract hellbeasts. But that's what makes Pirates Pirates.