Guards Guards - Thieves

One of the remarkable innovations introduced by the Patrician was to make the Thieves ’ Guild responsible for theft, with annual budgets, forward planning and, above all, rigid job protection. Thus, in return for an agreed average level of crime per annum, the thieves themselves saw to it that unauthorized crime was met with the full force of Injustice, which was generally a stick with nails in it.

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Guards Guards - p53