"They're here," Kaelen whispered, more to himself than to the sleeping village.
The idea of "marauding" appears across various genres and histories: maraud
Kaelen cornered one near the well—a figure draped in tattered furs, eyes bright with a feral hunger. For a moment, they just stared at each other. Kaelen saw not a monster, but a man driven to the edge by a winter that had already claimed his home. The marauder didn't strike; he simply clutched a small bag of salt to his chest as if it were gold. "They're here," Kaelen whispered, more to himself than
: Slash Maraud is a post-apocalyptic "punk rock" comic featuring mutant dinosaurs and roving gangs. Kaelen saw not a monster, but a man
: The term has been used to describe the "swashbuckling scallywags" of the Age of Sail, such as pirates and privateers who raided coastal towns. I'd Buy That For A Dollar: SLASH MARAUD #1 (November 1987)
The fog didn't just sit in the valley; it prowled. It clung to the damp stone walls of the village of Oakhaven like a living thing, waiting for the moon to dip behind the jagged peaks of the Iron Mountains. In Oakhaven, the word "maraud" wasn't a vocabulary term; it was a season.