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===The Anchorites===

The Anchorites are an enigmatic group. They appear to be a religious sect, based out of a remote, pre-apocalyptic stronghold of some sort, and relatively little is known about their culture or beliefs. Despite their isolation, they are't entirely reclusive. Traders, scavengers, and others can often be seen outside of their hermitage, always clad head to toe in robes, masks, goggles, and other gear that protects them from the environment and conceals their identities.

They most often trade in life-sustaining goods: clean water, nutritious food, and medicine. Their doctors are among the most skilled in the wasteland and often sought out in cases of illness or injury that no one else knows how to treat. The cost for their services, however, is high: Anchorites are known to show up in communities they've helped before and claim one or more children, who are taken away and never seen again. Most assume the children become Anchorites themselves, and their loss is often rationalized as "well, they'll have a better life there." It's not always that easy, of course, and not everyone is willing to give up their children.

The Anchorites offer their goods and services to nearly everyone and otherwise keep to themselves, making them the closest thing the wasteland has to a truly neutral faction. But even those who won't treat with the Anchorites (or vice versa) avoid crossing them. It's said to be bad luck to harm an Anchorite and there are all kinds of rumors about what happens to those who do.