Town Guard

Each capital city has it's own method of recruiting and training potential members of the local guard. Although semantics differ the basic legal and combat training they all receive is the bare minimum - since many recruits fail or quit once they see what the real day-to-day life is like for a guard it's often left until they finish their official training to let them start earning a real education on the job with some more experienced guards and officers.

Every guard must complete two kinds of challenge; they must learn or already know how to read Cadence, the local language, and have a full knowledge of the major and minor laws of their city. To enforce law and order you must know when to act, how to gauge the severity of your response, and how to properly enact corrective measure should the need arise. Although not standard issue there have been a handful of different pocket-sized editions assembled that rookies often keep on-hand for reference or for more obscure infractions where a specific or unusual response might be required.

The second element of their training is how to help in a major crisis and combat. Despite the relative calm of the massive cities, conflict can breakout at any moment and the town guards are almost always the first to arrive when there's trouble. They're trained on what to do during a siege, monster attack, and many other scenarios that includes how to help those who might be in danger from cross-fire or the many metaphysical abilities that wild creatures might bring to their city.