Corsairs, who are they?

[Agmen of Eladesor]

The problem stems, quite honestly, from the names of the two organizations.

Corsairs were French privateers (corsaire in French). Since the corsairs gained a swashbuckling reputation, the word corsair is also used generically as a more romantic or flamboyant version of the word privateer, or even of the word pirate. The barbary pirates of north Africa were sometimes called "Turkish corsairs".
1. A pirate, especially along the Barbary Coast.
2. A swift pirate ship, often operating with official sanction.

Outcasts:
1. a person who is rejected or excluded from a social group
2. a vagabond or wanderer
3. anything thrown out or rejected

Both groups, while descended from Spain and the Hispania, ended up having to support themselves not by using their own resources - since they had none - but by pirating, stealing, and looting. So while they've grown and are quasi-houses, at this stage they're not what would be considered legitimate houses.

IF they would renounce their pirating ways, then I feel quite certain that the level of respectability would go up enormously. As it is, there's no real profit for an established shipping line to make food deliveries, for example, since the shipper is just as likely to lose his ship. And until the Corsair or Outcast peoples decide that they want to re-join civilization, they will always be at best a second rate society.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.