City Watch of Haark

A veritable legion of ludicrous size, the City Watch is both Haark 's military and law enforcement. It is commonly referred to as the Golden Tower, named after the legion's main fortress in the City Center. The City Watch maintains its strongest presence near the City Center to protect the Grand Council and the Great Market, but it has forts and bunkers throughout the city. Those locations are chosen for neighborhood distribution as well as more strategic hard points to defend the city against threats from within or without. The onion domes and turrets of Haark’s highest elevations sometimes conceal siege defenses, like massive ballistae to skewer any flying targets that attempt to attack the city from above. The streets of Haark are generally quite narrow and, with the cooperation of residents, the City Watch can create chokepoints wherever they see fit, sealing off specific areas of the city when extreme emergencies demand such rash action.

The ranks of the City Watch are filled with all manner of Folk — sometimes volunteers; sometimes offered by foreign powers, as a gesture of goodwill; and sometimes a Haarkeen whose father’s father (and his father before him) wore the Golden Tower’s emblem upon his sleeve. The disposition of each member of the City Watch largely depends on their assignment. While the guards that stroll the light-dappled awnings of the Great Market may be fresh- faced and joyous, the soldiers who patrol Haark’s perilous Edge are a hardened and gritty lot, prepared for anything that its desperate denizens care to hurl from its ominous alleys. The patrols of the City Watch are assigned based on the basic divisions of Haark’s urban space — that is to say, in accordance with the four rings that are recognized by the average Haarkeen.