Marsember Watch

The Marsember Watch, also called the City Watch or the Watch, was the local constabulary of Marsember, an organization of city guards that protected the Cormyrian city and its economic interests. While they were charged with the city's protections, many of their members were considered to be corrupt and thuggish. Each of its members was called a Watchman, or Watchmen for plural.
==Organization==
The watch had a military-like hierarchy, with ranks similar to those used in the Purple Dragons, such as topsword, blademaster, oversword, constal, and lord marshall. Only officers of the Watch were permitted to take families and live in their own homes. 
==Activities==
Many watchmen regularly accepted bribes, particularly when offered by the city's mercantile interests. It also provided watchmen with Watch flans, which were steel meal tokens they could use to buy the cooperation of the hungry by letting them obtain a free full meal from the King's Tower in Marsember. The thump from a body hitting the floor was a common sound in any Watch barracks, where the residents often returned too drunk to find their beds.
Besides the sword, a majority of watchmen favored the halberd with an auxiliary short sword.
==Relationships==
The group had a contentious though not outwardly hostile relationship with Cormyr's Purple Dragons.
==History==
The Watch was founded some time after 1386 DR as a private militia for the merchant's guild of Marsember. They were originally tasked with providing interference between the merchants and the local contingent of the Purple Dragons. The order's founders left a deep strain of corruption, however, and the Marsemban Kenric family, a long line of Helmites, spent three generations trying to purge the Watch of corruption and bring Helm's Law of Service to their fellow watchmen. They joined when they were of age.
Ilgrim Marduth became Lord Marshall of the Watch a tenday after Taggar Kenric died.
When their city was evacuated on Uktar 2 of the , watchmen under the command of Topsword Kleef Kenric cleared out Wilhastle Square, while Kleef himself fought off a number of shades single-handedly from the opposite High Bridge Road all the way to Deepwater Bridge.
On the same day, Kleef's own men majority volunteered to follow him, the chosen Joelle Emmeline and Malik el Sami, and Arietta Seasilver with her guards onto Falrinn Greatorm's Lonely Roamer to rescue Elira Seasilver from the Wave Wyvern commandeered by Yder Tanthul. It took two tendays of sailing to succeed the mission, but of the accompanied watchmen, only Jang and Kleef Kenric who boarded the Wave Wyvern survived as others jump ship while the Lonely Roamer sank from the attack by Yder's leviathan and surrounded by an underwater serpent.
==Members==
* Ilgrim Marduth, Lord Marshall of the Watch circa 1486 DR.
* Taggar Kenric, a constal and follower of Helm.
* Kleef Kenric, a topsword and chosen of Helm.
* Tanner, a large guardsman under Kleef. He was presumed deceased on Uktar 22 in 1486 DR after he jumped ship, when the Lonely Roamer was sanked by Yder's sea monster.
* Jang, Kleef's first blade and best friend, from Xiousing. He assisted the escort of Grand Duchess Elira Seasilver to Westgate on the Wave Wyvern.
* Rathul, the oldest guardsman under Kleef. He died at the Shadovar's assassination on the first moonset boarding the Lonely Roamer.
* Ardul, a young guardsman under Kleef. He was presumed deceased on Uktar 22 in 1486 DR after the Lonely Roamer was sanked and a serpent roamed the waters.
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Category:Law enforcement organizations
Category:Military organizations
Category:Organizations in Marsember
Category:Organizations in Cormyr
Category:Organizations in the Eastern Heartlands
Category:Organizations in East Faerûn
Category:Organizations in Faerûn
Category:Organizations on Toril