Talk:Teague Martin/@comment-27202257-20121119045629/@comment-27202257-20121119074428

That's true, but in Campbell's Curse he talks about how he kept the practice of branding heretics around so that he could use it on some "undesirables" in the future, so he's clearly not above doing so. Since Martin directly assisted Corvo's escape, I would think that that would be offense enough for Campbell to go ahead and do it with little resistance, and without having to invent a crime to pin on Martin.

I think it was probably those things, as well as the Overseers likely not knowing how to confront that kind of situation. What if the branding was legitimate, but was kept secret within the Abbey for political reasons? Also, they can't exactly remove or alter the brand and its specifically designed to be noticeable on sight. So, if they say his branding was illegitimate, how is the public going to be able to distinguish that? What if other people come forward and say they were also illegitimately branded, or gain access to society again by making that claim to the public? Basically it seems like it would be a mess to keep him around, and since he was blackmailing so many people as you said, they were probably all too happy to see him go.