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<Snipped quote by Sombrero>

I’m just not convinced that the Castle/City Guard (one of us has to change this to not have this gaping lore inconsistency) would be like “Oh, you were a poacher? But swore loyalty to the King? Yeah you can be a [i]guard[/i] – we won’t distrust you entirely for doing that!” 

I also feel like having overlap is kind of concerning? But not the GM so this is just a player’s thoughts. 

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Let's keep in mind that Hyrule is a very small kingdom, the King is usually assumed/portrayed to be an all around "Good Guy"/fatherly type, and this is a very loosely fuedal system/psuedo-utopia where thievery and vandalism is virtually ignored in most cases. Poachers aren't necessarily violent criminals in a world where there could easily be bandits and other dangerous highway types put there. And hey, they don't exactly hire the most trustworthy guys to begin with, (One of them is an obsessive looney who thinks he's a clock, another one says he wants a mask "For his kid" but stands there for days on end wearing it just because?... Of course, there's the one that encourages you to break all those pots, and then there's the guy you can straight-up [i]bribe [/i]to get past the gate. Yep, 20 rupes just to let your [i]visibly armed[/i] self [i]into the capitol building where the king is[/i]) which leads me to believe that guardship might just be community service for criminals who aren't quite up to death-penalty levels of heinousness.