<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">I wouldn't go so far as to say it's 'The' magic organization of Sathmore; there are Guilds aplenty, and many of them claim to be 'The' magical authority in Sathmore. This, of course, leads to plenty of conflicts between the guilds both above and below board.<br><br>Having read your wiki details I would say that this organization comes the closest to official authority, but I would probably pare its numbers down, otherwise it would overwhelm pretty much every other guild out there, including Metamor and Marigund.<br><br>As well, it *wants* to crush them and actively works to make the life of other guilds bureaucratic hell. It also seeks to absorb any un-guilded mage that they encounter. Getting *into* the guild is easy - do it or get arrested, manna-blocked, killed, or worse - advancing beyond the lowest of the Master ranks is extremely difficult. Beyond Master things become extremely political.<br>It also seeks to control how much magic is available to the public and at what costs (this being pretty much a universally embraced idea in Sathmore and a good bit of the Midlands) and is one of the few things that guilds work together to maintain. It is one of the major reasons un-guilded mages like Murikeer loathe the guilds. Since this guild is closely associated with the throne it's activities support the throne and its sales fatten the treasury immensely.<br>I would even hazard to say that almost the entirety of the ruling Families are mages (usually minor or middling) and members of a sub-chapter of this guild, considering its purported size, influence, and reach.<br><br>Ryx.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, December 6, 2013 12:29 PM, christian okane <chrisokane@optimum.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3954371832"><style></style><div><div class="yiv3954371832WordSection1"><div class="yiv3954371832MsoNormal">I am in the midst of doing a story set in the Arenul Ceen (The magic organization) in Sathmore. Are there any details I need to watch out for? Any story lines in motion?</div></div></div> </div><br>_______________________________________________<br>MKGuild mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:MKGuild@lists.integral.org" href="mailto:MKGuild@lists.integral.org">MKGuild@lists.integral.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild" target="_blank">http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild</a><br><br><br></div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>