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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sarellion" data-source="post: 2099428" data-attributes="member: 6254">Yes, it was in the summary. And 40 guys are not much considering that the border is a long one. The masks are probably not the only guys watching the borders but is still a low number. I thought that the Praes Thanatos don´t like the praetorii guys much, they were made as a counterweight after direct control was dismantled. I mean the Praes Thanatos are pretty uncontrollable in all things arcane as it is now and they have their own undead troops. So they managed to reassign some of their duties to them but let them guard the senate. The Praes are the secret police and pretty much the police in matters of state and that´s enough for them.  As an analogy to the real world, they are the FBI and NSA, let the senate have its secret service (the bodyguards of the U.S. president and other politicians if I know correctly).The gnomes are also specialised on necromancy and dealing in stealth and stuff like this, this means that they lack in other areas. The Praetorii are more like a normal guard, with spells for blasting.And what should the gnomes do? Tell the senate not to? They probably did and the senate said, Thanks for your opinion and now stop buggering, we are still in command here.So the Praes Thanatos did what every good governmental institution did and started to intrigue. They managed to burden the Arcaneum with paperwork they didn´t like and transferred most of the duties they wanted.</blockquote>

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