Hmm, it is in the story that there are guardians protecting each cog, or at least, at some point, it was. However, I can't find this anywhere in our current document.
In either situation, my opinions on this are that there shouldn't be guardians, the cogs should just be hidden and well protected because electing a member of your society to go live deep in a cave and not ever come out in case somebody needs to get these cogs that you shouldn't ever need, but maybe once in several centuries... doesn't make sense. I think the cogs should just chill in there themselves.
However, if we did have guardians, they'd have to be practically spirits, because they'd need to live in a dungeon, be alone all the time, etc. They couldn't have an active role in society, I don't even see how they'd eat.
But anyway, Ash, Niek, what do you think about all this?