Watch Patrol

Composition

Manpower

1 Swordcaptain (Civilar)
1 Armar
2 Watchmen (2 Swords or 1 Sword and 1 Blade)
30% of patrols also include a Watch-wizard

Equipment

Uniform

Members of the Watch all wear uniforms. These consist of a simple tunic and breeches, with mid-calf high boots, and a Watch tabard denoting their rank over them. Those who are expecting trouble–and in some Wards, such as the South and Dock Wards, showing up for work constitutes expecting trouble for the Watch–also wear thin leather-and-chain armor (treated as chain shirts) in green, black, and gold colors under their tabards.

The Watch tabard is an over-the-head style, with each side, front and back, marked with the distinctive mountain-and-wave oval that serves as the Watch’s “badge”, with some kind of symbol within the oval denoting the actual rank of the Watchman in question. (It is worth noting that in a patrol, the armars and swords have the exact same symbol, due to a long-ago issue with a Dock Wards gang making targets of patrol leadership.)

Patrol Horn

Watch patrols all carry two or more distinctive patrol horns: bleached white bull’s horns, banded in silvery metal. They produce very distinctive sounding notes.

Weaponry

All members of the Watch also carry the distinctive Watch rods (with stats as a club): two-and-a-half foot rods of hollow steel, with caps at both ends. They are wielded in a variety of ways, from use as bludgeons to restraining techniques involving the application of leverage to the joints of those being captured. Moreso than even the tabards, the rods of the Watch are their symbols of authority, and they do not look kindly on those who purloin them for their own use.

In addition to the rod, all Watch on patrol also carry a sheathed short sword and a dagger. At least two members of any patrol will also carry one of the distinctive silver-and-blue patrol horns used by the Watch to communicate with one another across the city.

Structure

A patrol is led by the Swordcaptain with the Armar as second-in-command.
The Swordcaptain reports to the Rorden of his watchpost.

Training

A recruit to the Watch is given 25 pieces of gold, a free uniform (including boots), a single Watchman’s rod, and is housed in the Watch Armory for training, for however long it takes for the armsmen of the Armory to decide the recruit is trained enough to be promoted to Blade status.

Once a recruit has passed muster at the Watch Armory, that recruit is made a blade of the Watch. This position is an apprenticeship (although it rarely lasts longer than a year or so), assigned to a mentor of sword status.

Overall training Level

Trained

Assumed Veterancy

Experienced

Used by

• City Watch