Online:Mercenary (A Bad Shortcut)

Mercenary
Location	Tamriel
Race	Varies	Gender	Varies
Health	39,959
Reaction	Friendly

An Argonian mercenary in Rivenspire

The Mercenary is a Mercenary being attacked by bandits during the bad shortcut world event. The Mercenary is defending the trader, who is cowering behind a horse, from the bandits.

Dialogue

On approach, the Trader will say a randomized line, and the mercenary will respond with a randomized line of their own.

Argonian:

Mercenary: "Fear not! You're safer than an unhatched egg!"

Others:

Mercenary: "Keep back! Watch our enemies fall before me!"

Mercenary: "I told you to keep your head down!"

Mercenary: "To think, I left the army for this!"

Mercenary: "You aren't paying me enough to deal with your prattle!"

Mercenary: "Don't make me leave you behind!"

Mercenary: "'Take the high road,' you said! 'It's safer,' you said!"

Mercenary: "Next time, don't boast about your purse in town!"

Mercenary: "Stay out of the way! You'll get yourself killed!"

Mercenary: "You said this this was a shortcut!"

Mercenary: "If you'd kept quiet, they wouldn't have heard us!"

Mercenary: "Now is not the time!"

They'll thank you with generic dialogue after the bandits are dead.

In Wrothgar, there's a similar scene but with more interaction. You can come across an Orc Merchant cowering behind a dead Echatere while her Mercenary companion fights off two Roadside Bandits.

While the mercenary is fighting the bandits:

Merchant: "You said you'd protect me! In no way does this match my definition of protection!"

Mercenary: "Do you really want to get into this now? I'm kind of busy here!"

After the enemies are defeated, the merchant will thank you and chastise her hired help for failing to protect her Echatere:

Merchant: "My poor loyal beast, what a shame. You will not be forgotten."

Mercenary: "I'm not carrying that load. Let's get going before more of them come."

Merchant: "Thank you traveler. You've done the job I hired this apparent reject to do."