THE LOWLANDS MILITIA–POLICE FORCE

THE LOWLANDS MILITIA–POLICE FORCE

Informally called: “The Marsh Guard”

Official designation: Silverpoint P.D. Southwest Subdivision

I. OVERVIEW

The Lowlands Police Structure is the strangest in the Republic:

  • Legally a part of Silverpoint P.D.

  • Practically independent

  • Entirely volunteer-driven

  • Three real officers + one Sheriff appointed by law

  • Mostly uses wheeled vehicles (seen as ‘poverty tech’)

  • Lowlands denies the affiliation

  • Silverpoint denies the affiliation

Yet they carry Silverpoint badges.

The Common Saying:

“They’re Silverpoint on paper, Lowlands in spirit, and nobody wants to claim them.”

II. THE RIVALRY

Silverpoint’s View:

  • Embarrassed by the Lowlands connection

  • Calls the Marsh Guard “the Swamp Patrol”

  • Outsiders assume Silverpoint funds the Lowlands — Silverpoint denies it loudly

Lowlands’ View:

  • Claims the Marsh Guard is theirs alone

  • Accuses Silverpoint of only taking credit when it looks good

  • Locals joke: “Silverpoint loves us when the cameras roll.”

III. COMPOSITION OF THE FORCE

3 Official Officers:

  1. Sheriff Raime Fowler – 51, exhausted, practical, deeply respected

  2. Officer Brin Callo – 29, works part-time at a boat repair shop

  3. Officer Dela Varro – 37, also a medic in New Haven City

12–20 Volunteers:

  • Mechanics

  • Dock workers

  • Night-shift bartenders

  • Fishermen

  • Freelance hunters

They rotate in shifts around their day jobs.

Uniform:

  • Nonstandard

  • Patchwork badge placement

  • Waterproof boots

  • Waders for marsh response

  • A single old LED strip on the left shoulder

IV. METHODS

The Marsh Guard’s policing method is unique:

  • No SWAT

  • No armored vehicles

  • No drones

  • No Aegis clearance

They rely on:

  • knowing every alley

  • community trust

  • fast response on boats

  • practical dealing, not punishment

  • Lennix intervention when things get truly dangerous

V. THE “LENNIX RESPONSE”

Unspoken Rule:

If a threat becomes too big:

A Lennix simply appears.

No one calls them.
No signal exists.
They know.

They handle the incident in minutes and vanish.

The Farm of Plenty

The Lennix secretly maintain a second farm:

  • normal produce

  • normal livestock

  • fully stocked year-round

  • used as a free farmers market

  • supplies every Lowland family

The stalls are unmistakably Lennix-made — carved wood, heavy as stone, never stolen.

Except once.

VI. THE INCIDENT OF THE STOLEN STALL**

A single man once tried to steal a Lennix-carved stall.

The result:

  • his entire family vanished for three days

  • no one knows what happened

  • the Brennix of that era threw the family into the sea alive

  • they washed ashore and moved to Gransport

  • all survived, but traumatized

In the Lowlands, the story is told as a cautionary tale:

“Take from the Hill, and the sea will take you back.”

VII. PRESIDENT ALDEN VEYLOR (CONTEXT)

Level 18, President of HavenReach
Lawful Neutral, pragmatic, ruthlessly logical

He is the man who:

  • passed the law linking the Lowlands militia to Silverpoint

  • called it “a necessary administrative streamlining”

  • secretly approved it to respect the Lennix pact

  • publicly pretended it was a mistake

Locals say:

“President Veylor signs the papers.
The Lennix enforce the consequences.”