The Wizards' Guild

The Wizards' Guild is a club of aristocratic, affluent wizards in the northern parts of The Land of Eternal War. The guild is based in Torkel (City), but has chapters in Corden, Orness, and Erimad. Most of the guild's goals involve the accumulation of wealth, power, and social standing and its official events are fancy cocktail dinner parties. A common practice in the guild is for families to arrange marriages between their children, with the more powerful family's last name (this decision often becoming heated before being taken to guild arbitration).

The requirement for admission to the guild is a 10,000g fee, nomination by three current members (or being the blood child of two members), and to be "certified as a wizard," a vague phrase that is often used as a way to keep undesirables out that somehow manage to meet the first two requirements.

The Wizards' Guild used to have chapters in the nation of Creston but the guild split after war broke out between the nations. The two guilds have almost no communication with one another, and a bit of a cold rivalry has come between them as both think that they are the "real" guild and that the other is the offshoot.

Torkel (City) Chapter: Large, manor-like building across the street from the The University of Torkel campus. The center atrium is a large, round room with a high, domed glass ceiling, a balcony overlooking the room, and two large thresholds leading down hallways on the left and right. In the center are two curved staircases and in between them is a large statue of an elderly wizard wearing a very elegant and elaborate set of robes, and holding a staff in one hand and a small flame in the other. The statue has a small plaque at the bottom that says "Alexander Windstorm". The right side and upper floors are only for full members, while the first floor on the left side is for junior members (undergraduate students at the university, almost entirely children of current members).

* Chapter President: [needs character].
* Local members include the Windstorm family (Nicholas, Silvia, and Eliza) as well as most of the professors in the university's Mages' College.

Corden Chapter: A similar but smaller building but instead of a statue there is a fountain.

* Chapter President: [needs character].
* Local members include the Leyden family (see James Windstorm's family).

## Campaign notes

Alexander Windstorm (distant ancestor of James Windstorm), once a prominent member of the Wizards' Guild, traveled the world in search of unique and exotic magic. In his travels, he found a land where draconic gods ruled and there he unlocked the secret to contacting other planes. When he returned to Torkel, he brought many artifacts and a wealth of knowledge with him. His expertise and the artifacts he brought made the guild a powerful institution in the region. He either wrote or consulted for hundreds of books on all sorts of magic and world history, all of which have copies in the Guild's archives (restricted to members only). Many of his books are available at the university's library, though.

* [Taken from James Windstorm's player-written backstory]
* The Windstorm bloodline is blessed with phoenix magic because when Alexander unlocked the key to contact other planes, he traveled to the fire plane, where he saved the life of a phoenix. The phoenix blessed him, and ever since the Windstorm family has had a phoenix sorcerer at least once every two generations. Two of Alexander's children were phoenix sorcerers and became very powerful, but due to his standing as part of the Wizard's Guild it was claimed that both were actually evocation wizards. (Alexander wrote all this in a book that he only gave to his son who was a phoenix sorcerer, and since then it has been passed down the family to now being in Nicholas Windstorm's possession)
* It continued like this with those given the blessing being called evocation wizards so they would be protected by the guild and so that the world would not seek out the family for their power. James' great-great-grandparents had two sons, one of which was a phoenix sorcerer who caused great harm to several people. After that incident, phoenix sorcery was no longer considered a blessing but a curse, especially within the Windstorm family. This is why James' parents are very upset that he is a sorcerer and why they tried to make him be a wizard.

James Windstorm's parents' marriage was arranged by the two families. His parents and his two aunts and their families were all members of the Corden chapter, but his parents and sister recently moved to Torkel and are now members of that chapter.