Capital Guard

## The Capital Guard of Neā́polis

The First Lord Commander of the Capital Guard; Ser Germain, popular as Saint Germain

## Standard Information

### Allegiance

King of the Six Kingdoms;King of the Andals, the Talmar, and the Easternlings

## General Information

### Military Strength

200 men

The **Capital Guards of Neā́polis** is a law-enforcement and military institution responsible for the security of the capital city of the Six Kingdoms. Originally, the **Capital Guard** was founded in 105 CE by King **Sergei Pendragon** after his conquest of the Sternlands, and the **Formation of the First Kingdom** to protect the Capital City and its people from invading forces, which also later led to the **Formation of the City Guards**. Men of the Capital Guard are commonly known as "**The Cloaks**" because of their empowering armor and cloaks that watch over the capital city and ensure law and order. The Crown pays the Capital Guard salaries, but unlike other organizations in the Six Kingdoms, these soldiers swear no allegiance except to the king.

## Organization

The **Capital Guard of Neā́polis** is a strong, formally-trained and well-equipped force of guardsmen under the direct authority of the King with the **Crown of Sergei**. Their salary is paid by the kingdom as a whole and unlike many of the kingdom's other institutions, they do not swear fealty to any lord other than the king.

All members of the **Capital Guard** are equipped with the same uniform, including a pale white tunic with the **Emblem of A Green Dragon on Red Shield** as the Sigil of the **Royal House of Pendragon**. The Guards wear light grey plate armor underneath the pale white tunic, covered underneath by warm white clothing in winters and light white clothing in summers as a vest to their uniform. They wear similarly colored metal silver arm bracers and brown wooden shin guards. The Capital Guard helmet is patterned in the technique of the citadel guardian helmets of the Fars Artwork, made in Tyrus Steel, it's lightweight with a nasal guard, and a pointed top with curved sides.

**The Cloaks** are commonly seen with spears, while the officers are seen with longswords. Though generally, they do not utilize shields, as once recalled by Ser Anthony of Dyke, "**Shields are used to hide from the enemy. I am here to establish the order! Hear, Hear, the Guards of the Capital will have no use of shields, we plunge into the open as the Defenders of the Capital!**".

## History

### Origins

After defeating the grand royal army of the **Talmerians**, King Sergei ordered the reconstruction of the Capital City of Greensborough, renamed **Neā́polis**. With the aid of Houses **Hoffman**, **Easternling**, and **Wellington**, King Sergei constructed a grand capital surrounded by massive walls with strong men guarding her.

In 104 CE, the Royal Port by the Eastern Shores was attacked by pirate-mercenaries led under Houses **Dustin** and **Whent**, while another fleet of forty ketch ships under the **Noble Flags of House Thrane**, a Vassal and Branch to the Royal Family attacked the Capital by the Eastern River Stream. King Sergei allied with an exiled military commandant, **Captain James Franco** who led a military ambush to the Thrane Fleets via the Abel River, one of the deadliest gorges and ravines in the land of nine kingdoms. Surrounded by trench warfare, the Thrane Fleet along with two elder sons perished in the warfare that would be known as **Abel Skirmish**, one of three trench gorge battles that left survivors. The **Eastern Attack** was crushed by King Sergei himself as he left none alive in battle and spiked the ships of his enemies by the **Mouth of the Eastern Bay** as a warning to future invading forces.

After the Eastern Attack, King Sergei ordered the reconstruction of the Royal Port by the Abel River with assistance to **Captain Franco**, Houses Hoffman and Easternling, naming the construction as Port Franco, the Second Royal Port and Garrison for the Royal Fleet. Followingly, in 105 CE, King Sergei ordered the reconstruction of Saint Christopher Cathedral, expanding the halls with military training grounds and soldier quarters, as it acted for the **Capital's First Original Garrison**, and thus King Sergei ordered for the formation of the **Capital Guard**.

### Foundation

After the Conquest of the Sternlands and the Construction of His Capital, **King Sergei Pendragon** ordered the **Formation of the Capital Guard** in 105 CE to act as a law enforcement to protect the capital city and its people from invading forces and punish crime. After its formation, to ensure law enforcement and order, King Sergei appointed a knight from the **Kingsmen**, **Ser Germain** as the **Leader of the Capital Guard** and the First **Lord Commander of the Capital Guard**.

## Composition

The **Capital Guards of Neā́polis** is a law-enforcement and military institution responsible for the security of the **Capital City** of the **Six Kingdoms**. Originally, the **Capital Guard** was founded in 105 CE by **King Sergei Pendragon** after his conquest of the Sternlands, and the **Formation of the First Kingdom** to protect the Capital City and its people from invading forces, which also later led to the **Formation of the City Guards**. Men of the Capital Guard are commonly known as "**The Cloaks**" because of their empowering armor and cloaks that watch over the capital city and ensure law and order. The Crown pays the Capital Guard salaries, but unlike other organizations in the Six Kingdoms, these solders swear no allegiance except to the king.

The **Leader of the Capital Guard** is called the Lord Commander of the Capital Guard.

The **Capital Guard** comprises of two divisions, **the officers** and **the guards**. There are three designations that command the garrison of the capital city and the capital city's guards; Lord Commander at Highest Rank, Lord Captain at **Second-Highest**, and lastly, Lord Sergeant.

## Notable Lord Commanders

* 105-46 CE: Ser Germain.
* 146-50 CE: Ser Augustus of Pyne.
* 156-160 CE: Ser Osmund Trant.
* 160-164 CE: Prince Robett Royne.
* 164-173 CE: Ser Ramsay Yellowbrook.
* 173-186 CE: Ser Joffery Largent.
* 175-179 CE: Ser Humphrey of Fork.
* 201-202 CE: Lord Ryam Macewood.
* 203-210 CE: Ser Sirius Byrch.
* 210-219 CE: Lord Oswell Stafford.