Core of many of military forces not so large as to be considered a real army the men at arms perform defense tasks, patrolling and escorting strong of their martial training, alternating between long periods of service for landowners, merchants, or villages with short periods of license spent in orgiastic debauchery and drukenness.
Men-at-arms are tough guys, often foreigners in the place of employment, but otherwise employed by a local authority that sees them as a need to preserve order, protect the settlements by bands of outlaws and humanoids or escorting officers (mostly tax collectors) or goods of value. Unlike the employment of mercenaries men at arms is more durable and much less risky (as in most cases do not face an enemy well trained and when they do escape is not so shameful) but precludes the opportunity of raids and looting are the easiest and fastest way in which a man can get rich in arms. For this reason the men at arms are often corrupt or easily corruptible and do not hesitate to abuse their authority when it gives them the opportunity to enjoy a profit or leisure (often carnal) if they think their act could be without consequences (but their perception is often faulty: many serfs uprisings started just like that).
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