The Shield of Tenbault is a Named-rank status adventurer team, lead by the Named-rank Adventurer, Crowdcaller Merdon. They are paid by the Healer of Tenbault to protect her.
Overview[edit | edit source]
The team consists of nearly twenty strong adventurers, an irregularity among most adventurer teams, which tended towards small sizes, but these were paid by the Healer to protect her. Due to their number they had achieved Named-rank status as a team, and with their leader, Merdon, who was a Named-rank adventurer himself, they occupied and guarded the gates to the inner city of Tenbault were the Healer lived, from the countless people seeking the Healer.
They are a law unto their own, and unlike normal city’s [Guards], they let no one in, no matter the bribe. They even hire [Mercenaries] to supplemented them, and normally leave it to the [Mercenary]-[Guards] dealt with the crowds. It's when someone pushed past the first rank of mercenaries towards them that they intervene, by using lethal force and kill anyone who tried to get through. Only those who have a pass may come through. Anyone else, even members of the Five Families (except for Magnolia), get turned away without a pass.
Another part of their job is to track the winners of the lottery for the pass, and fight anyone who had mugged them.[1]
Strength[edit | edit source]
As befitting to their Named-rank status, they are good, as just one of them can catch an [Invisible] intruder trying to sneak past them in a moment, and could even beheaded them if they had tried to [Flash Step] past invisibly. Even if they were distracted, their detecting spells were so good that they themselves don’t even need to notice if the intruder was [Invisible] to catch them.
On duty they are very vigilant on those who they recognize as a real threats to their job security, as they would keep watching them like hawks.[1]
Despite all their strength, Magnolia says that they aren’t up to the task of defeating the Guild of Assassin should they come for the Healer.[2]
Members[edit | edit source]
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- They and the mercenaries supplementing them are magically protected or immune to Merdon sound-blasting Skill.[1]