curious
liberty or license
most will notice a problem sometimes when they want to trade and the trader has enough gold listed but the gold balance button doesn't work. while you can double click on the gold in their inventory to see how much they actually have to trade i still wondered what the extra was for. i'm pretty sure now that amount of gold shown and the the actual amount they have only differs if you have trained with the npc/merchant or given them gold in some way other than the trade screen. this is why your are able to rob the npcs back of the stuff you've given them but not stuff you've traded. so if you're really in dire need of money you could always train with the same trainer and then get your money back later and use amnesia on them. though leaders are of limits because at no time can they be knocked unconsious-just killed.