Bandits

Fractures Series
Storyline by Rainimator and the Production Team

The **bandits** are a division of the  Frostbourne army. Its members are criminals who Lord Patrick either hired or captured. Led by the reformed bandit Daryll before his death, the bandits are used to raid enemy camps and sabotage supply lines instead of being deployed on the battlefield. The bandits first appeared in "Goodbye". In the episode, they supported a Frostbourne party which attacked the wither skeletons' camp.

## Members

*From left to right in photo.*

* Flint
* Daryll † (former leader)
* Unnamed bandit †

## Role

―@rainolaguer on Twitter

The bandits are considered a division of the  Frostbourne's army. However, they are either hired guns or criminals captured by Lord Patrick, indentured to military service in exchange for their life. Instead of fighting on the battlefield, the bandits are most effective in "battles of attrition", such as raiding enemy camps and cutting their supply lines. Patrick treats them like "renewable resources". They are "expendable units" that he can use instead of his soldiers.

Daryll was the leader of the bandit division before his death. Because they are not properly trained soldiers, the Frostbourne has not seen it fit to use up time to select a new leader. The bandits are armed with beacon guns gifted by Azura. Writer Dexter Kronos of the Rainimator Production Team said that beacon guns are "hard to manufacture, harder to get, and are still experimental. It's a miracle the Bandits even got some".

### Non-Frostbourne bandits

Free bandits and rogue bandits who Patrick has not captured still roam the Overworld and rob adventurers. Bandits also make up most of the Frostbourne's defected personnel.

## History

Before *Fractures* began, Lord Patrick captured wanted criminals such as Daryll and Flint. Instead of collecting their bounties or imprisoning them, Patrick offered to spare their lives in exchange for their service to the Frostbourne. He "[didn't] want to criminalize them". Patrick's work in helping the bandits and mercenaries coexist peacefully with the Frostbourne has earned him a reputation as a "benevolent leader". He even managed to reform Daryll into one of his most loyal soldiers.

In "Goodbye", three bandits—the leader, Daryll, Flint, and an unnamed character— were enlisted or paid to support a small Frostbourne party as they attacked the wither skeletons' camp. They accompanied Patrick, Azura and Stella. The party successfully cleared the camp of the wither skeletons. Azura and Stella left to request the  Ender Watchers' help, while Patrick and the bandits stayed behind to lure Herobrine there. When night came, Herobrine and a group of undead soldiers tried to take back the camp. The Frostbourne were about to lose and the unnamed bandit was killed before the Ender Watchers arrived and defeated the enemy forces.

Soon after, Daryll and Flint briefly appeared at a Frostbourne meeting in "Wings of Salvation". Little information exists on the bandits' activities *as a group* after this; Rainimator posted about them only a few times on Discord. They also do not appear again acting as a group. Daryll was killed off in "Cold as Ice: The Remake", leaving the bandits leaderless.

In 2021, Rainimator posted that the bandits have been advised that pigmen and piglins carry gold and are allowed to ambush them. They also engaged in a rivalry with the piglins over who is better at stealing gold. In May 2021, Rainimator wrote that because the bandits' population is dwindling, the Frostbourne cannot engage in guerilla warfare anymore. It is possible the Frostbourne may create a "new scout regiment" to replace the bandits' function as "[s]pecial soldiers [...] tasked to destroy enemy supply lines and camps." However, in February 2022, he wrote that there were "[a] lot" of bandits left.

### Appearances

To date, the bandits as a military division have only appeared in "Goodbye". In September 2022, Rainimator claimed that more bandits would appear in the future. Daryll was one of the supporting characters in the first and second season. He and Flint appeared together once more in "Wings of Salvation", which was the first episode of season two. Daryll was killed off in his next appearance, the season two finale "Cold as Ice: The Remake". Flint only reappeared almost five years after "Wings of Salvation" in the season three finale "We are the Danger XL"; no other bandits appeared.

## Future special episode

Rainimator mentioned plans to flesh out the backstories of Daryll and the bandits as early as December 2018. He intended to explore this in a future episode. In January 2019, he said that this project would be part of the third season, but in May said that it would be a "short episode". In May 2023, Rainimator reaffirmed his plans for a special episode about the origins—or "glory days"—of Daryll, Flint, and the bandits. In July, he accepted two character ideas submitted by blueblood7159 for possible use in the episode: the "scorched corpses", an undead faction adapted to the desert heat; and the Dust Bandits of the Barren Frontier. Rainimator previously considered making the badlands the bandits' origin, and making the Barren Frontier the badlands.

## Notes

1. ↑ Although the bandits have many more members, this article only lists the ones who have been shown on screen.
2. ↑ Attrition warfare is a military strategy wherein one slowly wears down their opponent by causing "continuous losses in personnel and materiel".
3. ↑ These two messages may or may not be in jest.
4. ↑ In guerrilla warfare, small groups of irregular military such as bandits use tactics such as ambushes, sabotage and hit-and-run attacks to combat the enemy's regular forces.
5. ↑ "Wings of Salvation" is not counted.

## References

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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rainimator wrote on Discord that bandits "are not a faction. However, in the Frostbourne, they deploy a bandit division (used to be led by Daryl) during the war." (28 January 2022)
2. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/480225125028069387/723799245865353267
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/1115827811509350420
4. ↑ "The bandits and I have come to bargain. They'll fight for the right price in line with the spoils of war."

— Ser Patrick, "Goodbye"
5. ↑ https://t.co/68zfb2dZQO
6. ↑ See [1], [2] and [3].
7. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/841343122399428629
8. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/1023806510364639233
9. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/1015639749073064037
10. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/849892594200739841
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/845489415110262784
12. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/855084542633050162
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/936813294956711977/1135080341930000455
14. ↑ Adapted from a potential concept for a special episode featuring the bandits.
15. ↑ *Rainimator Lorebook*, "The Humans". See Ser Patrick's entry.
16. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/840112465270276126
17. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/915228773887143987
18. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/833273666480504842
19. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/843329645993525268
20. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/943000533705310300
21. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/1016326237859364874
22. ↑ See [1] (26 December 2018), [2] (5 January 2019) and [3] (15 January 2019).
23. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/480261137452105749/534395277860143114
24. ↑ See here. The third season has now been concluded with "We are the Danger XL".
25. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/480261137452105749/583659023124004864
26. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/1110913180571541575
27. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/936813294956711977/1126236036658385028
28. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/1059080905286754374
29. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/478232666781646889/795858792143257631/1111102489853448313

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