noirandchocolate:When Veltrick III took the throne in 1572, he was approached by the city’s me
noirandchocolate:When Veltrick III took the throne in 1572, he was approached by the city’s merchants and agreed to make a modest allowance for the continued running of the City Watch. It was he who commissioned the striking of the first proper Watch badge, a plain disc or shield of copper (representing the shield which they had originally carried). This was stamped with AMCW (for ‘Ankh-Morpork City Watch’) and the officer’s number. These badges were commonly in use by the City Night Watch until recently, although only a handful have survived the intervening years.After the Watch was instrumental in saving the city from domination by a sixty-foot fire-breathing dragon, the Patrician commissioned a new badge to reflect the increased importance of the Watch to the city, and to allow its numbers to be expanded. Lord Vimes continues to hold his original Watch badge, which is now the only known example outside the Patrician’s personal museum in the Palace.–Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs, “The Ankh-Morpork Archives”(illustrations by Paul Kidby)(Photos are a comparison of Vimes’ badge, of the original sort, and the new badge with the city seal on it commissioned after “Guards! Guards!” The book also says that the badges were proposed to have a new motto on them translating to ‘The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear,’ but that Vimes vetoed this ‘on the basis that the innocent have a great deal to fear, partly from the guilty but also from the kind of people who come up with slogans’ like that.) -- source link
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