Ludern - Legion - Lieutenant Olance

[Entrails]

Looking for some guidance here.

Near the Old Edoranian Mine, I ran into a roving band of Legion led by a Lieutenant Olance looking for their lost Colonel Alexa. If you attack them it shows a reward of Leather Straps and 80 gold.

My team is lvl 6 with some 5's compared to their lvl 8, but I managed to take them out, losing a couple animals in the process. Was a terrifically hard battle.

In hindsight, I'm not sure it was worth it, and I'm hovering between continuing and loading a previous save.

But the strangest thing is, I didn't get the rewards, and I have no idea where to turn it in if this is a quest. That particular battle/quest doesn't seem to be listed on any of the online quest/region guides.

[warrgood]

Some of the groups you run into may become quests or bounties that just haven't shown up on the job board yet. An example from Tiltren is the drunkards between the jail and the mine: If you kill them before the job shows up on the bounty list, you won't get that quest. If you ignore them and do enough jobs to cycle the bounties a bit, you may get a job to kill them. The Legionnaires in Ludern are that kind of group as well.
It's like the champion in each region- sure, you want the legendary weapon, but why not take the job and get paid to do it?

To maximize your income, only kill animals, deserters and skull bandits unless you have a bounty to go after a specific group, The exception here is fights you have to do for storyline quests for whatever region you're in.