Also, NPCs should have their own stored "gold amounts" that allow them to buy things and equip them while they are free-roaming. Then later, if they abandon you or rebel, they have their personal "gold amount" plus whatever they were equipped with.
When you pay a fee to "hire" a champion, that fee is added to their personal "gold amount."
If a Champion is killed, their "gold amount" is added to the loot of the victor.
(if a dragon killed a group of heroes, the heroes' gold amounts are added to the loot of the dragon)
(In a Faction vs Faction battle, the gold amounts of slain heroes are added to the battle loot)
A resurrected Hero (from resurrection spell) starts with a 0 gold amount and gains 1 gold per turn until they reach their "default" gold amount.
A reanimated (undead) Hero always has a 0 gold amount.
If one of your own Champions dies in battle, (and you win), the gold goes to their families (not to you).
Selling their equipment could add a whole new level of complexity to hiring them though, couldn't it? They'd have to raise the prices on NPCs to stop people from buying them and selling the gear and getting them killed (or stuffing them in a city forever, untouched).
Of course, hiring them and stuffing them in a city is pretty much all I do with them right now, as they're underpowered, but when the updates come and they're hopefully made more useful, it'd be silly for people to hire & strip them to make money.
Well, perhaps if you sell their original equipment, it goes into their "gold amount" as opposed to your own treasury. That would seem fair, and it would seem to be more integrated than the "delete" option, although that certainly should be a possibility if we can't sell them.
It should also be possible to perform Human Experimentation (through magic/alchemy) on NPCs ...
as well as sell them into Human Trafficking ...
as well as buy enslaved NPCs from Human Traffickers to either free them or experiment upon them.
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