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=== The Roget Eagles ===

The Roget Alliance employs a large body of men to protect their assets and enforce their interests. These guards wear the striking eagle emblem of the Roget Alliance, and are called by the common pople the Roget Eagles, simply the Eagles, or (never to their faces) the Pigeons. 

Until only five years ago, the Eagles wore conventional boiled-leather breastplates, a startling anachronism in the face of modern weaponry which made such armor useless, and both these armors and the more formal metal breastplates that officers sometimes wore are still gathering dust in large warehouses, occaisionally brought out for formal purposes. However, Eagles in the line of duty now wear wide sashes, color-coded to their rank, that have protective spells on them of fairly modern design (almost all are obsolescence 2 -- the Roget Alliance likes to replace their gear in single huge generations, in contrast to almost everyone else's practice). Eagles are also issued solid wooden truncheons with stun spells inscribed on them (also obsolescence 2), which are much better thought of by most knowledgeable people than the Gold Guard-style slat-clubs, even though they lack a kill setting. In cases of emergency, the Eagles have small stores of spears with kill enchantments on them, meant to be handed out when there's a particular need, but the stores are rarely dipped into, and there don't exist enough such spears to supply more than 10% of the Eagles in any case. 

The Eagles are generally considered the best trained of the regular police forces in the city, the legacy of various Noble generals and actual war-men who were tapped to create the guard. An Eagle on patrol is equipped with one fully charged power token, and the men are not as loathe to use them as are Gold Guards, as they tend to be both cooler under pressure, and have commanders who are understanding about legitimate uses of the tokens. Veteran Eagles will often supplement their duty-issue sashes and clubs with innocuous secondary weapons, defenses, or utility magic, but Alliance policy prevents them from carrying obvious non-standard gear. 

Like all Alliance guards, the Eagles are reviled by the common people of the city that they must draw their ranks from. As such, the ranks of the Eagles are rife with social misfits, bullies, and sadists -- if better trained ones than the Gold Guards could boast -- and brutality and corruption is endemic across their ranks.