Thread:Talk:Paetani/Paetanian Guard/reply (3)

For elite members who survive adolescence, how about the Bloodborn, or the Twice-Blooded? Maybe Twice-Blooded refers to a ceremony - they are ritually wounded when they enter service, and again when they kill their tenth man, or survive to adolescence?

As for why such a force is tolerated, an external enemy or the chance at conquest always worked well in our world. Perhaps Paetani ramped up hatred of the elves and used them as a convenient focus for fear.