Tier: The Overlook | "Watching the boundary between the living and the lost"
The garrison is small — a stone building and watchtower at the Overlook, where the city ends and the Vallombrosa fog begins. The guards stationed here volunteered for the posting, which is considered either prestigious or disturbing depending on who you ask.
Their duties are simple: maintain the barriers, record the names of anyone who approaches the fog line, and document anything unusual.
The logs make for unsettling reading.
Most rotations last only a few months. Longer exposure produces effects the Watch prefers not to discuss in detail: sleep difficulties, persistent feelings of being watched, dreams about places the dreamer has never been.
Some guards request extensions anyway. They claim they need to understand something they almost glimpsed. Or that the fog has started to seem beautiful in ways they can't explain.