I need some help with names
OK, my mind isn't what it once was.
whats the name of the office or building for a fantasy towns security office. like sheriff or whatever.
it's driving me nuts.
dont think it's the quartermaster.
whats the name of the office or building for a fantasy towns security office. like sheriff or whatever.
it's driving me nuts.
dont think it's the quartermaster.
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You could also try fancier modern titles:
Correctional Facility or Center
Justice Center
Dept. of Justice
Office of Judicial Affairs
Seems like Actual Reality is somewhat vague on this point during the medieval times, depending on the time-frame. Manor House, the Castle, civil parish, Magistrate's Court. I also saw some references to a provost sometimes being a place and not just a person. A Provost Marshal is typically a head of the military police, but there are times where it was applied to non-military people as well.
Then there's the office in question, which ranges in duties and responsibilities and area covered - sheriff (from Shire Reeve), constable, peeler, local lord of varying names, knight / chevalier and even Bow Street Runners (ahem. Group!) - and there are others. Since you're talking about a fantasy settings, with a bit of a stretch and using modern interpretations, you could probably get away with bailiff and maybe even yeoman.
There's also a period when the job was performed, more or less, by some combination of private or state funded armed forces - guard, soldier, mercenary, whatever - and the local militia. So that would give you things like barracks or cantonment. As pointed out above, the 'City Watch' of various flavors and affiliations seems to be a fairly common fantasy trope.
Then there's also residents who were obligated to answer the alarm when it went out - all armed able-bodied men over fifteen, for example, and they usually called it home, the house, their hovel, or, as my company commander liked to refer to it, as YOUR OWN LITTLE PIECE OF AMERICA RIGHT THERE.
More recently, there is another trope that certain 'families' use certain 'eating' and / or 'drinking' establishments or warehouses as their 'base of operations' for meting out their interpretation of law, justice, and 'tax collection'.
So I think that if you pick something that fits with the rest of the culture you've built, then you're good. You're certainly unlikely to be less consistent or more convoluted than western culture.