We managed to capture several of the bandits alive and our escorts took them into custody for questioning.
Most likely they wanted to find out if this was an attempt on either assassinating the Marchioness, the King or even Mother, since it was definitely weird for bandits to attack a group like this.
But judging by the numbers, they might have felt they had the advantage especially with the element of surprise on their side.
Unfortunately for us, we did have some casualties on our side as well but it was definitely fewer than what the bandits suffered.
Incidentally, I got to see how they handled their dead as the party members simply collected the corpses and equipment of their fallen comrades in silence before bringing them back to their camp with them.
I was told that those parties with a lot of money would be hiring a healer to revive them while the others would most likely be cremated.
