User blog comment:Legate Alexandros/Tamriel Themed Food, I missed it!/@comment-4057437-20130727062652/@comment-8248675-20130731184814

The way I am thinking, even if guards don't do anything when you steal a sweet roll from someone, I am sure the people who you stole from and got away with this will. I mean Drystan sent thugs after me from stealing a note that was worth 0. Sure there was information about Nepo or what's not in it, but was it worth sending thugs after my charcacter? I can imagine it now "You stole a sweet roll from someone, we are here to teach you a lesson!" And if they happen to catch up to you in the town where you have friendly to you people, they can even kill them in the process. When the thugs caught my female Breton in Dawnstar, for stealing a book from Anise (I killed her by then and she still sent them); blacksmith and his wife and both miner overseers stood up for my character. When the smoke cleared, all four were dead, and I just gave the blacksmith the book Night falls on Sentinel too. So yeah, if you steal and get away with that, other people may suffer too.