The Guilds of Erenth

All economic traffic in cities and towns is controlled by various guilds. Not only does belonging to a guild guarantee a certain level of quality of work, it provides permission for free men to work a trade at all. Those who attempt to set up shop without guild membership can be brought before a city judge or a province's baron to answer for his crime.

All of the guilds belong to consortiums which are led by a council of guildmasters.

Charm Consortium -- The guilds that belong to this organization provide their members with price structures, but little else. Of all the guild types this class is the most loosely organized. There are three guilds:

• Trollops Guild
• Actors Guild
• Tout, Pitch and Sales Guild

Craftsman Consortium -- These guilds regulate the quality of merchandise offered by their members so that a silversmith, for example, does not tarnish the name of silversmiths everywhere by his shoddy workmanship. 

• Associated Clothiers Guild
• Needlers, Spinners, and Shearsmens Confraternity
• Weaponsmiths Guild
• Woodworkers Guild
• Metal Workers Guild
• Necessary and Mundane Loyal Craftsmans Society
• Leathermans Guild
• Guild of Accomplished and Luxury Craftsmen
• Mechanist and Contraptionists Collegium
• Colliers, Claymen and Brickmakers Guild
• Guilded Artisans of Finery and Exquisites

Hospitality Consortium -- Distinct from the other guilds are those that provide entertainment, lodging and medical care. The Guild determines the quality of establishments and their fare by assigning the Poor, Good, Fair, Fine ratings and the prices for each. But aside from levying a small fee and suffering a rudimentary fire inspection each year, there is little to belonging to this guild and anyone with enough cash can do so easily.

• Remesmen (healers)
• Druggists, Chemists and Surgeons Guild
• Acclaimed Ladlemen and Masters of Repast Guild
• Caregivers, Drawers and Service Workers Guild
• Bards and Bands Guild
• Miterers, Minders, and Menders Guild
• Nightwarders Guild

Ink Consortium - The workmen who make a living by putting pen to paper are generally members of the Ink Guilds. In their case, the guild exists to safeguard the knowledge of specific subjects, the ability to know standard languages and to understand ciphers, but also to provide bonds of assurance for trustworthiness and honesty.

• Guilded Society of the Learned
• Metronists Society
• Calcularium League 
• Guilded Men of Letters
• Totalers and Census-takers Guild
• Wardsmen Society

Laborers Consortium - The workmen who make a living by strength of arm and back. The guilds determine hours of legitimate work and payrates.

• Churls and Tenders Guild
• Collectors’ Cabal
• Sailor’s Guild
• Shovel and Pickmans Guild
• Toters and Hefters Guild
• Red, Black, Tan and White Society

Managers Consortium -- These organizations provide their members with price structures, as well as, best hours and business practices as they are related to buying and selling. There are three guilds:

• Maestro’s Guild
• House Masters Guild
• Castellan’s League
• Sea Masters Society

Merchants Consortium -- These organizations provide their members with price structures, as well as, best hours and business practices as they are related to buying and selling. There are three guilds:

• Food Rationers and Storesmans Cartel
• Drapers Guild
• Spice and Powders Guild
• Guilded Caskmasters of Spirits and Preserves

Trades Consortium - That class of workmen who rely primarily on strength of arm to do work, rely on the labor guilds to provide work recommendations. The guild ensures that men who say they are teamsters can actually operate a wagon with some degree of skill. That those who say they dig mines are not merely men with shovels, for example.

• Materials and Makers Guild
• Erectioners Guild
• Teamsters Guild
• Shaftsmens Cartel
• Huntsmans and Game Takers Association

Still Other Guilds - It is often said that even the thieves and their ilk are organized into guilds.  To the minds of officials and respectable citizens, such a notion is preposterous.

Assassins

Beggars

Spies

Thieves