Defending the surrounding villages
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Counsellors,
Beyond Eveningstar, none of the villages have any form of defense. And while I find this missive bold, it proves beyond measure, that this council and we are failing to uphold even a shred of security in the region. So I will make this brief, to the point, and very clear in its message.
Either this council and its rule step up, and ensure some way of defending the region. Or I will. I will hire mercenaries and adventurers, train the common folk, and I will bring order to the world outside the walls of Arabel.
Unless you have better ideas, in which case I am all ears.
Adrienne
@Latok said in Sheriff's Report to the Council:
[Naresh and Levi may sense a hint of sarcasm and malice in this letter due to previous conversations, but any other councilors may just think it was a serious and sincere attempt at do-goodery]
Council of Twelve,
By right of feats of honor, I claim the title of Sheriff of the outer settlements. Goldcloaks protect the city but no one protects the outskirts villages. If the Greycloaks can claim peacekeeping power when they have failed to uphold it, I can claim it when I have succeeded.
I personally dragged the necromancer back from Immersea and stood only with Greg and Nethki against his armies as they assaulted the town.
When the Sand Lords assaulted Hillmarch and Slingdyke, I killed their raid leader and stood alone at the gates against the onslaught until aid arrived from the Precept to retaliate in their own turf.
I have lead the assault against the Sand Lords to end their raids on the outskirt villages and will bring in the heads of Jafur and Nazim or die trying.
Most importantly, I have beat down the Greywatch for accosting adventurers on the road without evidence and knocked out the pathetic Bryce in front of his own high cleric for being the most idiotic and useless law enforcement officer in history.
I will defend the outer villages and keep the peace where the Greywatch has failed and where the Gold cloaks do not patrol with our without the council's approval. Bring me on full time and I can do it better. Many of your councilors can speak to my professionalism and effectiveness. The risk of not bringing me on is I'll deal with threats my own way instead of yours, which will usually involve a dirty bastard sword in the gut instead of trial. Your choice. I can bring them in warm, or bring them in cold.
Sheriff Bronimir
Attached is a simple report showing a complete patrol of all the outer towns and the various creatures and/or bandits slain along the way
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Eveningstar itself also needs time to recuperate from the recent attack, or so I would think. Still, it is true that many of us have been absorbed in other matters besides the concerns of the outlying towns. Unless there's an undead horde marching on it, at any rate.
I'll see if I can muster the same amount of energy and funds you have to hire adventurers and mercenaries, and get militamen into the smaller towns.
-Councilor Grurec, son of Torunden
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How strange, an adventurer who has designed his own title.
The question is, do you support this man?
If so, why is he not on the Council?
-Clerk Johnson
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It'd be incorrect to say the outlying villages are defenseless. They often have retired veterans in the Militia or the occasional patrol of the army that meanders through the countryside to exterminate the small goblin or kobold party. A skilled huntsman is as useful targeting deer as they are such monstrous pests. Even orcs in small groups don't pose much of a threat to a small village, as they are often poorly equipped, poorly trained, and lack discipline in order to keep their efforts hidden.
Now, an organized army is something beyond a village is capable of repelling without immediate reinforcement or high walls. Eveningstar is close enough to Arabel that it can rely on the former, Tilverton is content with its latter.
The villages of Bospir are unique in the sense that they are often unharassed by the monstrous tribes of the Hullack (or the constant festering of undead- which they claim to deal with by their own means and traditions of offering herbal incense and others to appease the angry dead.) Such villages often simply bribe their problems away- and the wiser, older monstrous groups know that we'd exterminate them if they orchestrated a raid, thus giving us a tenuous day to day balance...
Now, if you are proposing we garrison troops in every village and town in the realm, we cannot afford to do so, it is not in the budget, and will never be lest we are forced to raise taxes to a painful level- which is something a country in desperate need of trade after a civil war and a massive invasion by monstrous creatures can afford.
It is a tenuous balance- but it is why we loosened the restrictions of local nobles and fiefs to raise whatever armed forces they deem necessary to defend their own land and protect their own interests. A poor fief is a poor target, and thus, does not need as many troops, whereas a rich fief requires many soldiers to protect it, thus, it is well defended.
Clerk Boris
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Moved from Plot Faction: Council of Twelve Peers by S Swifty Willownall
