"You could call up the local citizens. However, all the volunteers are either already recruited or six feet un

"You could call up the local citizens. However, all the volunteers are either already recruited or six feet under ground. That means we either take in the weaklings or we do it by force. We'll train them to kill, and then one fine morning they'll take a blade in the heart. Not a bright future, eh? It's best to pay the mercenaries. That bunch of daredevils is dreaming of fighting for a warchief like you! And these guys are tough and dangerous men, not some untrained farmhands."