Talk:Mutual of Beauclair's Wild Kingdom/@comment-38347477-20190205190550/@comment-35466205-20190209191713

When you find the second merchant's body there's a letter on him from his employers saying they should go through Borhis' domain because it's the shortest route, that they know the beast will probably attack them but Borhis will repay them if it happens. So they say they don't care if the merchants die because they won't lose money anyway.

Meaning, they provoke the basilisk and send men to die knowingly, just because there's a slight possibility that they will survive and gain a little more money because the route was shorter.

Bunch of assholes really... the basilisk doesn't need to die.