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Once again, it comes down to reason that one does not directly hire the Swordseekers themselves and instead asks the company to provide them with someone to perform the contract. It also stands to reason that one cannot get a Chimera level Swordseeker due to their rarity seeing as many of the Swordseekers seem to be simply hacks who never truly complete a hunt. If, as the GM said, one in ten Swordseekers are the real deal then it also stands that one in ten are [b]possibly[/b] Chimera level. I say possibly because it still comes down to having a trophy of a hybrid beast rather than some fauna that was causing trouble in the area. 

Were you to request a Swordseeker to complete a contract, I imagine that you'd get a Sphinx far more often than a Chimera simply due to their rarity. If, out of one hundred Swordseekers, ten are the real deal then I would speculate that one or two out of those ten are Chimera level. It is entirely possible that sending a Chimera on a mission is next to impossible since they are needed elsewhere for missions. 

And for the Witcher comparison, were we to compare the Trial of Grasses to anything, it'd be the Sphinx trial. It is the closest in similarity that we can come to for their trials. The Witchers were an organization of unnatural beings and were subjected to the Trial of Grasses as a means of combating legitimate monsters. The monsters in the Witcher world were far stronger than the average human and, in fact, often killed humans as prey. A Witcher literally had to go through the Trial of Grasses or the training would've been wasted on them. Sending a Witcher out without passing the Trials would mean certain death and they couldn't be as free with who they chose to be a Witcher as the Swordseekers could. I mean, the Trial of Grasses literally killed people. The Swordseekers just have what seem to be military standards of training. You are only legitimately in danger if you are untrained to complete the Sphix or Minotaur trials.