The Guard

As the crime rate has risen in recent years, The Peregrine has slowly increased the size of the City Guard, taking a personal interest in the placement of individual officers in order to ensure the best candidates are placed where they can do the most good. If a precinct does well in reducing crime in its area, some patrolmen will be offered promotions in more difficult precincts. By and large, the Guard is becoming more unified. In some precincts, the esprit de corps is especially high, but in others (especially in the poorer neighborhoods), the Guard units seem to act almost like just another gang, shaking down the merchants, beating pimps for a share of their earnings and taking bribes to ignore other operations.

As more crimes involved the Dwarves, he put out a call for volunteers to serve as liaisons between the Dwarves and The Guard. Now, faced with a similar increase in the Orc neighborhoods, Peregrine Cestiphar has decreed that Orcs will be allowed into The Guard, serving alongside Dwarves, Humans and the occasional eccentric Elf.

There has been little official resistance to this order, but Orcs tend to find themselves on Night Watch or the less glamorous, more dangerous jobs. As yet, no Orc has been promoted above "patrolman".

To be a member of the City Guard is not a high prestige job - most guardsmen earn just enough to keep their family in food and shelter - but most guardsmen take pride in the knowledge that they're doing what they can to make The City safer.

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