
On the flipside they're Unperson inhabitants of a city-sized garbage dump, two (and later on, another two) of their members have died, their leader is Brought Down to Normal and they're at the mercy of a boy half some of the members' age.

Indeed, most of the members seem to be in specifically for the carnage. In fact, as they already steal all the common objects they need on a daily basis, they have very little interest in the luxury items they target, and seem to chose them mostly because they know these items will be heavily guarded. Which is why they get such a reputation: They are less famous for what they steal than for the hundreds of people they kill in the process. Unlike most other thieves, they generally don't rely on subtle strategy or minuted actions perpetually reenacting the Gordian Knot parable, they prefer to resort to brute force. Introduced as "the most horrible group of criminals in all history", they are a group of 13 thieves who specialize in very difficult targets.
