One such warrior was Kothar, cast up by the sea in the northlands of his world, a sellsword and a mercenary, a wencher after the women of his day, a freebooter and a thief, at times, whose sword Frostfire was a magic sword.
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Sellsword
//ˈsɛlˌsɔːd//
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Your profession always charges high and never guarantees their work. No sellsword would stay alive if he demanded a sorcerer's terms.
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The sellsword scrambled backward, checking each blow, stepping lithely over rock and root, his eyes never leaving his foe. He was quicker, Catelyn saw; the knight's silvered sword never came near to touching him, but his own ugly grey blade hacked a notch from Ser Vadis's shoulder plate.
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Bandit: It's those fool villagers...They think they can buy a bunch of sellswords to chase us away.
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