Yeah had a wanted flag put on me for using the Hunt outside the city. The victim ran into the city and I got the flag.

Garrhhh!

How could the magistrate flag somebody for sending their antagonistic imaginary friend to fight somebody? Technically, it's all in the victim's head, so there's no true agent comitting the crime. You're just imagining things :p

The answer below isn't bad. The crux of the issue is where things occur; if the nightgaunt is brought into the city by one wording after it has already attacked them, then it was not illegal. Similarly with the fiend. The reason for this in the law is that you the attacked brought the creature into the city, since you began facing it elsewhere, whereas with the gaunt to a guy in the warrior's guild, you can be relatively certain that it came for him there--and entered the city by order of the conjurer.

Also, what the magistrate can and cannot prove is another matter either way. And so it would not be surprising to see some hesitancy when there is no way to know what it is. That being said, I have no problem with Magistrates trying to kill off the nightgaunt, or heal the one fiended.

The nature of bard's fiend is that the fiend is sung in the same room with the victim. Nightgaunt, however, comes from other location in the same continent. This makes it more viable for the magistrate to think that the victim was gaunted from the town while it is certain that the fiend wasn't sung in the town if the bard wasn't there in the first place.