The City Watch (or the City Guard)[1] of Darujhistan were charged with upholding the laws passed by the Noble Council. Its members patrolled the shadowy streets bearing shuttered, globed lanterns.[2][3] While on patrol they wore gauntlets and dusty cloaks and were armed with truncheons and swords.[4]
Amongst their tasks was manning the twelve gates leading from the Daru District to the upper city.[5] The Guard maintained a barracks and jail at the Warden Barracks.[6]
Mages and necromancers could be requisitioned by the guard to assist investigations, but the wheels of bureaucracy ground reluctantly in such matters unless someone of importance was slain.[7]
After twenty years of service, members of the watch earned a pension for their families.[8]
Known Members[]
In Gardens of the Moon[]
Circle Breaker was a member of the City Watch and had been on night watch at Despot's Barbican for six years by the time of events in Gardens of the Moon. His uniform consisted of a ringed hauberk and a boiled leather cap with the insignia of the Watch. He wore a plain shortsword scabbarded to his belt as well as using a pike.[9]
In Toll the Hounds[]
A Guard with a failing heart made it his personal crusade to hunt down the bizarre serial killer murdering drunks and derelicts in the city.[10]
Members of the watch arrested Barathol Mekhar and Chaur at the behest of the Guild of Blacksmiths for violating city regulations.[1] Antsy was arrested and jailed for three days after scuffling with guard while attempting to visit Barathol at the Warden Barracks. It did not help his case that he joked he had come to free Barathol and carried a sharper on his person.[6]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Toll the Hounds, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.693
- ↑ Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 5, UK MMPB p.178
- ↑ Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.868
- ↑ Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.33
- ↑ Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 6, UK MMPB p.194-195
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.839
- ↑ Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.839
- ↑ Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.145
- ↑ Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 6, UK MMPB p.195-196
- ↑ Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.839