The Royal Guard
The Royal Guard are a wonderful spectacle of clockwork technology in its full glory. Not fully man and not fully machine, these automatons have been used to protect the royal blood for as long as anyone can remember. Nothing seems to pierce their outer layer, and no one know what is on the inside. No new Royal Guard are brought into existence, but incredibly rarely a Royal Guard will go missing. They are never found, and are presumed to have accidentally wandered into the ocean and sunk to the bottom.
Naming Traditions
Family names
All Royal Guards have a series of numbers on their face-plate where the eyes would be. The original creator designed it that way so that the royals could avoid feeling impolite and still maintain "eye contact" with the clockwork automatons if they forgot their names.
Culture
Major language groups and dialects
The Royal Guard can comprehend all languages, but is unable to speak. This does not mean they can not communicate thoughts, as they have developed a form of signlanguage that only the Royal Family and random interested people take the time to learn.
Shared customary codes and values
The Royal Guard tend to have overprotective tendencies to avoid failing their duties. The Royal Guard do not have any empathy for anyone but the members of the royal family.
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Rumors
When young children on the Pearl Isle misbehave in taverns, they are told stories about a malfunctioning Royal Guard that infiltrates the local taverns and eat the more boisterous children. This was just a wivestale that sleep-deprived paremts fabricated of course as the Royal Guard that did this was never caught in the act, so no stories could be told about him.
Related Locations
Nicknames
Children in the Brass Castle would often get their own caretaker Royal Guard. Because the children in the castle were often isolated from other children, they would try to befriend their Royal Guard caretaker. This would lead to nicknames being given to them, often based on the first three letters the caretaker had before the serial number.
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