"The Wheat Guards are an elite corps inherited from the ancient ages and blindly serving the legitimate leader of the sons of E'torrar. Easily recognizable by their armor of a soft golden color reminiscent of wheat at harvest time.
Originally protectors of the Sigur family, whose emblem was the ear of wheat, they became the imperial guards with the advent of the dynasty of the said family.
As time went by, they increasingly joined the ranks of the regular army until they became dependent on it for their pay or provisions. However, they always took their orders directly from the regent.
There are three active Wheat Guards troops. One of them looks after the security of the throne, another guards the other strategic buildings of the union, and the last has no fixed location to which it is assigned. No one knows exactly what it does, but there are rumours that it will fight tirelessly on the border of the Silverwood lands to ward off the dangers lurking in the north of our lands.
New recruits are chosen in their early years based on their abilities.
It is a great honour for a family to have their child taken away by the Wheat Guards, who will then become one of their own and become part of the legend.
There are countless heroic stories of the Guards' exploits, they are both the tip of the sword that makes up our nation and its guard against the chaos of the forces of night."
encyclopedic notes from Gredore Kurt
Used both as personal guard of the regent and
The Greate Families and as a political police, they are feared by most people.
Their freedom and relations give them a huge political weight that some think dangerous.
Anyways, their mark is visible in the entire
Avan'Wanor territory via the stories told to the children, the artistic representations and all the infrastructures they own and manage all over the country ranging from garrisons to farms or workshops.
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