(09-01-2015, 03:00 AM)V Wrote:(09-01-2015, 02:58 AM)Oli! Wrote: I believe that they would be referring to whomever else is within their regiment. That could be anyone that was also hired for that duty; outsiders, Ishgardians, both. Without details on the makeup of that guard force, and who ran it, there is no way to know who would be in that guard force.So are you choosing to ignore that every other gatewarden for every other city state was a member of one of those states' military branches, or do you have an alternative explanation for why xenophobic Ishgard would buck that trend wholesale and just hire outsiders instead?
Well, I can think of two main reasons.
The first reason is that if we look at them at face value, they don't seem to be wearing the traditional military armor seemed for Ishgardian armed forces.
The second and more important reason is that, based on what we know of Ishgard and its houses, the Ishgardian State does not always provide the military force. If a claim is staked by a house, then they are the ones that must provide the Knights, a system that is quite different when compared to the military forces of the other nations. If we think of this in tandem with that quote about a house hiring outsiders, then it seems quite possible that whatever House staked that territory may have hired outsiders to bolster their forces. I cannot think of a location outside of Ishgard that is staked by the state instead of a House instead, so this location seems as if it would be in possession of a House, seeing as it is outside of the city in order to follow this pattern.
This would be my reasoning behind it.
