House Phiarlan

House Phiarian oversees many of the things such as schools, emergency services, as well a lot of the building work, and maintenance across the city. This tends to mean that many people look down on House Phiarian but even more so people look down on the town guard. The leaders of House Phiarlan work very hard to instil a sense of quite honour in what they do, the moto being that "What House Phiarlan may not be respected, may not be appreciated, but it is what keeps the city alive, maybe not what they deserve, but defiantly what they need".

Structure
The different areas of House Pharilan work quite separately but all very close to the Visible Council where they get a lot of their funding and instructions from, like the Duthgarian Government before the independence. However, officially the House is its own organisation and chooses how to use the funds, who to employ or fire and and the best way to serve the city, while the council simply sets tasks which need to be completed and dives up the funds from taxes for that purpose. The Head of the House has the power and authority to allocated funds within the different departments as well as the power to redistribute people and assets if needed, and then the heads of the individual departments hold the power to control the structure and outworking of their tasks.

Town Guard
Currently the town guard are considered a bit of a joke within the city of Old Vashton bribes are almost considered a supplement for their wages and there is an unofficial rule book stating what you can and can't take bribes for within the town guard, though this is mainly designed to try and stop people taking bribes for anything. It started in 6161 when House Deneith starting to take private security jobs, this wasn't the town guard mandate they weren't swords for hire, but along with asking for money to act as bodyguards or home security required a higher standard of fighter. This meant that House Deneith needed to attract the better warrior and train them more, thus to be a guard with House Deneith was a better gig than with House Phiarlan, but along with this the bounty hunter branch of House Deneith began working on some of the cases that were stumping the town guard, with slightly less inline with the law tactics, but this made the town guard a bit of a laughing stock that couldn't do their job. House Phiarlan threatened House Deneith and forced them to stop this setting up a stick set of rules as to what the hired guards of House Deneith could do and what they couldn't when it came to criminal matters. But the damage had been done, with the superior quality, the higher status and the more selective entrance criteria fewer people applied to be town guard and the same number of essential tasks that needed to be done the town guard started a downward spiral. More and more of the duties of the town guard were moved over to House Deneith but as private contractors they could pick and choose what they agreed to do and thus could stay within their capacity. The town guard just needed bodies on the ground and so hired anyone, and was unable to train the properly or fire them for not doing their work due to the attrition rate of their guards.

By 6250 and equilibrium was found, there were far more town guards than House Deneith guards but they were mostly lazy people just working for the money not a sense of duty or pride. The town guard patrol the street exacting fines on people they find doing wrong, they also police the gates and entry points to the city as well as the three prisons of Old Vashton Madstone, Plato-hol and The arcane cage. Then those of the town guard which actually show some potential are transferred into the crime fighting division, to track down criminals, discover who committed crimes and maintain a sense of law within the city.

Assets
House Phiarlan has a number of buildings all across the city, from the fire stations and post offices to the water and sanitation buildings and the public schools. There is a court house in each district, bar the Temple District and between three and ten guardhouses in every district, but the main court house is in Silverwall District and the main guardhouse is in Southwatch District Which is also used as the training ground for new town guardsmen. The main building of House Phiarlan is known as the Bi-Sai Building which is a plain grey stone building which stands four stories tall across the street from the main guardhouse building. People often have to come to the Bi-Sai. There is also a number of buildings which bear the House crest that bases of operations for street cleaning garbage removal and the water supply to those buildings that need or can afford the luxury.

Buildings

Bi-Sai Building (The main building of House Phiarlan)

Southwatch Main Guardhouse

Silverwall Main Courthouse

Old Town water distribution plant

Important People
Morian Shol Phiarlan (Head of the House)

Neal Gerran (Justice council member on the Visible Council)

Ulvien Gallaer (Head of CIvic Planning)