Spoiler: Mauricio legal lore
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Legal situation here is dicey. You are definitely breaking the law by freeing his slaves.

If he has done the proper paperwork, legally, he can take the slaves back (if he is alive). He could also get the Zephyr guard to take the slaves back. Although you don’t see any paperwork here, it could be at a different location.

If he has not done the paperwork, and you walk out with the women, there is little he can do legally. Although if any women admit they were his slave and were freed that could cause some issues. Granted he will likely want revenge.

Oddly enough, legally the consequences for you for killing the gnolls would be a slap on the wrist. Assuming they are not a guild members, there might be a fine. Taking their property however would likely result in a period of servitude (being made a slave for the individual slighted or the highest bidder).

Spoiler: Sadar gnoll lore
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Purheegee lives in the sewers. While gnolls are hardly renowned for cleanliness, this is not a typical dwelling for a gnoll. Gnolls tend to live together in a pack structure. That Purheegee is down here with just two other gnolls suggests he is very unpopular among most gnolls in his tribe. Though both certainly exist, typically with gnolls, pack bond trumps family bond. As the gnolls seem to have done everything short of exiling Purheegee, he is unlikely to be missed.

Though one ran off, you are skeptical that other gnolls would rush to his aid.