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Wait, so, essentially an actually living, human scarecrow?
Basically a security guard that functions via playing into superstitions as opposed to openly displaying armor and weapons?
I mean, you get a home and food and basically 0 commute along with this job, that's waaaay fucking better than 99% of jobs I've heard of or seen.
Like what would the rough equivalent to modern norms be... the lord doesn't pay you enough to maintain and upkeep both a hovel and a horse, but you are required to own a horse to even apply...?
Sorta not really, a living part of the scenery often with their homes in follies so as the landowner and their friends walk about they see a random dude dressed like fuckin Merlin walking about living in a cave or fake ruin.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit
So more of a live-in Disney Land mascot.
Still, home and food paid for, your job is basically... rp as a druid at a renfaire?
Sounds like a decent retirement or 'i need a change of pace' gig to me, I know plenty of people that pay to be able to do that.
Lots of our best thinkers were crazy dudes who got paid to live in caves and act mad, it's sort of a running English joke which crops up in pop culture like Monty Python.