It doesn't necessarily smell awful- but it's very distinctive, and people in the area know it means he's basically blacklisted by the local 'Marks. So help at your own peril.
...Kinda like the fictional equivalent of shadowbanning! Only there's transparency to the process in fantasy-land.

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