<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=345578.msg16288553#msg16288553">Quote from: Muse on 18-09-2022, 02:14:55</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">  Oh...  I thought i was going to get sold to the party collectively.  I mean, it's the party who did the service I needed done.  *shrugs* <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Slaves cannot be owned collectively, one person in the party will claim ownership of you, and the rest gain actual some coin/material reward (albeit a smaller amount than is expected given task, but up to your owner then let you be 'used' collectively or not by party). As the key here is that if the slave owner dies, so does the slave. So actually having multiple slave owners to the slave is hazardous to them (and also multiple owners can cause conflict in obedience/orders so for clarity's sake every slave ever has only one master/mistress).<br/><br/>Death may not need to be violent, it can come by old age. Usually, masters who care for the well-being of their slaves pass them out to other people before natural death but it's not impossible that a group of slaves to die exactly the same time as their master does by natural cause. So thus free willed combat slaves are highly valued as they literally know if they fail on the job protecting their master they die, so they can be suicidally loyal and ready to die for you.