“An adventurer alone, a dead man. An adventurer with a party? Unstoppable.”- Dante Featherstorm
Established during the medieval era, guilds are an organziation created by like-minded individuals. While there are a wide variety of guild types such as merchant or scholastic, the Mage Council keeps track of Adevnture and Arcane guilds.
With the advancement of technology guilds have had to adapt to times. Guilds are registered as businesses and must go through the proper channels in their creation. All guilds must have records of their members including: medical health, DOB, age, height, weight, physical features, and their ranking. This information must be updated weekly as well as any missions completed. When a member is deceased their body must be sent to guild hospital for autopsy. All guilds must make number of deaths open to government officials but do not have to make them public.
Guilds membership is typically open to the public and works similarly to a job application. Those seeking to be an adventurer go through a fitness test designed by each individual guild. This may include simple test or bracket based fights to determine who can join. Not much is known about thieves' guild application as it is difficult to gather inforamtion. We do know that the Black Claws require earning 4 "marks" before you can join. All guild members, except for thieves' guilds, are given a guild license indicating: rank, guild name, DOB, and signature. Additionally, all guilds must provide health (dental included) care, family benefits, paid time off, vacation, parental time off, missions for parents that still pay same wage but lower risk missions, and other benefits dependent on nations worker laws. For more information please look at a region's website.
Guildmaster: Guild owner, responsible for determining the overall direction of the guild and for making strategic initiatives and partnerships with the other guilds
Ordermaster: Leadership position, a guild can have a handful, assist with a particular focus or drive of guild.
Grandmaster: Management position involving oversight and responsibilty over guild's finances.
Master Hunter: Responsibile for gathering missions and marketing of guild.
Master: Senior position, oversees ranks below
Sage: Best mage
Champion: Best Fighter
Diamond - Egible to start a guild
Topaz I
Topza II
Topaz III
Jadeite I
Jadeite II
Jadeite III
Garnet I
Garnet II
Garnet III
Pearl I
Pearl II
Pearl III
Calcite I
Calcite II
Calcite III
Talc - Intern
While promotions may vary depending on guild, most guilds do a traditional two system promotion option. To reach promotion availability you must have completed enough missions within your rank, please view a guild’s guide for further information. After getting the proper prerequisite you are now ready to pick your promotional mission: Hunt or Challenge.
Hunts are special missions where a party must hunt and fight a monster equal to their new promotion rank. This can be a simulation or actual mission.
Challenges are 1v1 fights, a canadidate one rank below can challenge one rank higher if filling a guild's prerequisite.
At the Diamond rank, enough money, and license an adventurer can start a guild. It is considered a private company and must follow a region's regulations. An autonomous guild has the advantage of becoming a staple in their community, take missions from any region, and particapte in Guild Wars to gather more locations. As a comapny the guild can declare bankruptcy and either be bought by a corporation or the government.
Owned by shareholders rather than an individual, corporate guilds function similarly to the music industry. An adventurer is signed and the company distrubtes them to any guild that they fit into. The adventurer gain access to higher rarity equipment, exclusive items, and pay. The downside is that the adventurer's contract is typically favored towards the company. A 360 deal is a common practice, the adventurer is launched into stardom but the company gets a percentage of all sales. Additionally, an adventurer can be dropped from their guild if they're unprofittable. Despite shady practices, it is one of the highest earners in the stock market.
Subsidized by taxpayers to complete missions in their particular region, much of the guild remains the same with the exception they cannot particapte in Guild Wars. Governemntal guilds can particapte in missions located in national parks or other region protected areas without paying a fee. The guild must also make sure their missions do not hinder the government. Guilds owned by a government are great for the economy, sparking job growth in many fields, especially during times of reconstruction after devestating events.
A guild war is the most honored tradition of guilds. It has evolved through each era and remains the highlight of many adventurers. To engage in war an order or guildmaster challenge another to a guild battle. There are two types of wars - spar and clash. A spar is a friendly fight that isn’t on the guild ranking leaderboards. A clash on the other hand is on the leaderboards and each guild must agree on something before the battle. For instance the Metas are known for waging ownerships of guilds. Additionally, a wage can be to do the death or the person is unconscious. Government owned guilds cannot participate in clash battles due to risk, corporations wager for guilds the most to prove themselves, and autonomous guilds vary.
The challenged guild picks the setting but it must provide equal playing field to the challenger. Since 2200 after the Arcanic Tournament III, Clashes must be done in a demiplane that is constructed to be similar to our world but without citizens to avoid destruction. A mage council judge must be present to oversee each clash battle for it to be considered official.