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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lars Porsenna" data-source="post: 1802708" data-attributes="member: 24208">Often one of the best sources for this info is the library. I personally model my dwarfs after the Anglo-saxons or (more specifically) the pre-Conquest Anglo-norse. So clan units are organized under a chieftain, that holds the military title of thegn. He reports to whomever is the ruler (i.e. the King), and maintains his own body of professional armed retainers called Huskarls. But beyond serving as a bodyguard or standing army, they are also officers of the thegn (or the king, since he would have his own huskarls) and oversee anything that requires the active intervention of the thegn but he is unable to do it himself (such as witness contracts, resolve disputes, enforce the laws, etc.). There's more, of course, but that's just an example of what one can do with history and applying it to a fantasy culture...Damon.</blockquote>