Equal parts police and civil Enforcers, most deputies start as ex-farmers. The difficulty of cultivation on Temperance is a continual one, and during particularly lean years, the ranks of the deputies swell with hundreds of new recruits. Proctor Vigdis and the remaining members from the Legion of Twelve never turn these eager individuals away, but the sheer size of the deputy force within Bastion makes the citizens of Beacon nervous and more resentful.
Bastion Deputies form the first line of defence during Mind-Mould infestations. Drilled constantly in effective methods of countering Temperance’s most lethal calamity, it is common to see deputy squads patrolling produce storage yards clad in heavy mouldsuits and with flamers at the ready. Recently, a number of outlier farms registered complaints of overzealous deputies that burnt entire crops without hard evidence of infestation. With so many thousands of scattered farms spread out across Temperance’s near-oceanless surface, response to these complaints is slow at best.