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Bodyguards are a way that the Councillors protect themselves and other important elven citizens. In most cases, they appoint goblin warriors, as they have a sturdy alliance with the goblin queen. It is unknown if the elves have used any other species of bodyguards until Flashback, when Sophie gets a bodyguard from every species.
After Sophie and Dex's kidnapping, an experienced goblin warrior named Sandor was put in charge of protecting Sophie. At first Sophie found it annoying, but they form a friendship closer than simply bodyguard and bodyguard's charge. In Flashback, after failing to protect Sophie during a severe Neverseen attack, Sandor tries to remove himself from his position as Sophie's bodyguard, due to lack of confidence in his skills, but Sophie manages to stop him.
Other known bodyguards: