Thanks.

Well, since everyone hates them, do not trust them, and would kill them on sight if they weren't scared to death of them, the wanderers do not love people overmuch. So if they happen to get into a fight with anyone, people end up dead. * smiles * You could say it isn't quite murder...since the other people 'start' the fights generally, especially if they are inebriated...but the wanderers usually wouldn't have to kill them to protect themselves, they just do.

Mind, I'm speaking generally. As I said, most of them are bad, some are good, and some try to be good but don't make it. And also, in some regions there are wanderers similar to these, but not so dangerous nor so untrusted. People think the first causes the second, but I think it's the other way around. * slight smile *

Thanks.

Well, a lot of people have these tough men that can do all kinds of things like walk silently, ride for days on end, win every fight, and so on...but these wanderers also are very developed in reasoning and deduction. They are very good at memorizing things, and putting two and two and two together in ways that most people wouldn't think of – like Sherlock Holmes. They, at least some of them, do it so much that many times they could not even tell you how exactly they found out a particular fact – they just knew it somehow, drawing from their memory and putting things together. It's like when you get good at math, and the multiplication just happens without you hardly thinking about it enough to remember how you figured out that 16 times 28 equals 448.

It's very handy.

I get it now, like a type of intuition?

Yeah, it ends up being sort of like that. And to other people it often seems like more... 'magic' or something.

That makes sense. It's also a good reason for people to not like them.

Might I also add that the mythical Robin Hood (most likely based off of many different and real outlaws with that name or a diversion of it) was quite like a Ranger?

The outlaws of medieval England during the 12th and 13th century were a fascinating group. The longbow was the ideal weapon for such a group as it offered a unique advantage over the sword that few other weapons could match. It not only provided the ranger but also the punch required to succumb even a knight in armor. These outlaws would waylay merchants and the arising yeoman class in the dense, untamed woodlands between medieval towns.

The fantasy Ranger has many similarities to these historical Robins of the Hood, specifically if one might look at the Ranger's Apprentice series. Aside from one being an outlaw and the other generally on the side of the law, it's not hard to draw out the similarities.