Trade Guilds

**Trade Guilds** are organizations primarily focused on the creation of goods and the distribution of resources. While they are historically divided into two categories, "Craft Guilds," which consist of the craftsmen, artists, and workers who through their labor produce high-quality products, and "Merchant Guilds," which consist of Traders who sell goods to the general populace, there tends to be quite a fair deal overlap between the two.

## Notable Retail Guilds

### Gourmet Grocers

Founded: Victorious Era

Affiliation: Independent

Gourmet Grocers is a Grocery Store Chain that always supplies certain cooking staples but mostly relies on a rotating stock of ingredients for specific meals that it promotes each week. Its stores also prominently feature a learning kitchen in which customers can have lessons from a professional chef on how to prepare the meals of the week and enjoy free samples.

### Bronze Bound Books

Founded: Ancient Era

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Bronze Bound Books is a premium Library that features a collection of Bronze Heads that hold the knowledge of tens of thousands of books each.

### Parii

Founded: Classic Era

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Parii is a high-end fashion store and designer brand.

## Notable Food Service Guilds

### Rumble Burger

Founded: Expansion Era

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Rumble Burger is a Fast Food Chain that specializes in preparing food quickly to the beat of many drums. All employers are expected to be drumming upon something, whether it be the acoustically attuned countertops or the drum-shaped to-go containers as they go about their business. The result of this is a rumbling and bombastic experience that engages customers at the expense of increased employee fatigue.

### ReLa Ramen

Founded: Expansion Era

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ReLa Ramen is a simple Food Stand Chain that features a dining bar and plenty of varieties of hot and spicy ramen to enjoy. Their dining bar features all but the most exotic spices in the world and customers are encouraged to see just how many Scovilles they can handle.

### Bao Bao Buns

Founded: Expansion Era

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Bao Bao Buns is a Food Stand Chain that primarily serves steamed foods, their signature dish being cream and red bean dessert buns shaped like baby bunnies.

### The Clove

Founded: Classic Era

Affiliation: Independent

Founded by a band of renegade Satyrs, The Clove is one of the highest class restaurants in the Western Kingdom and is perhaps the most popular location for high profile interracial dating in The Empire.

### Burger Factory

Founded: Cyber Era

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Burger Factory was one of the first Fast Food restaurants to go fully automated and its first location featured an above-ground factory with a sit-in dining area that featured a view of the actual machinery processing and assembling the meals being produced. Later locations would mostly just be small kiosks in densely packed urban areas with their kitchens built underground and very few would possess sit-in dining areas, but those that did were stylized as factory labs and featured robotic Golem servers.

One of Burger Factory's most iconic slogans is, "Fifteen and its Free," referencing their full refund policy towards standard meal orders that it took longer than 15 seconds to serve after the order was inputted into the system.

### The Atom Bar

Founded: Victorious Era

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The Atom Bar is a casual dining restaurant with centralized open bar known as "The Nucleus" and theming around a theoretical "Atomic Age."

### Photon Diner

Founded: Victorious Era

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The Photon Diner is a casual dining café that features heavy use of Neon signs and other Plasma-based light fixtures.

### Dire Range Steakhouse

Founded: Classic Era

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Dire Range Steakhouse is a casual dining restaurant founded in the city of Tension that gained notoriety for serving massive Dire Auroch steaks and flanks.

### Golden Jade Dragon

Founded: Victorious Era

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Golden Jade Dragon is a Western Kingdom restaurant chain that utilizes traditional Eastern Kingdom recipes as inspiration for dishes it adapts to its local palates. While the chain is often criticized as being "inauthentic," it tends to thrive financially nonetheless.

### GangXiang Restaurant

Founded: Classic Era

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GangXiang is an Eastern Kingdom restaurant that specializes in aquatic dishes.

### Storkrog Tavern

Founded: Ancient Era

Affiliation: Independent

Storkrog Tavern is a Northern Kingdom Pub

### Valhol Tavern

Founded: Ancient Era

Affiliation: Independent

Valhol Tavern, located in the Northern Kingdom Capital of Ardri, is perhaps the world's most famous Pub and features a central brawling pit, the Asgardian Arena, that is infused with Guardian Mana that protects all those inside from receiving serious injuries. During the Reaper's Rest, the Tavern became one of the last strongholds of the living residents of the city.

## Notable Lodging Guilds

### Archtree Inns

Founded: Ancient Era

Affiliation: Independent

Archtree Inns are a loosely associated chain of Elven hotels that were originally carved into the trunks of ancient Archtrees. More modern iterations are constructed artificially and may have a tree-like, or more traditional architecture depending on local building ordinances of their area, but regardless of their exterior, Archtree Inns always maintain their traditional wood carved interiors. Notably, regardless of the preferences of their local populace, the food served at Archtree Inns' proprietary in-house restaurant, Archtree Café, is always strictly vegetarian.

### Angel Breath Inn

Founded: Classic Era by Angelo Luxtro

Affiliation: Independent

Hosted for centuries by the Luman Angelo, Windsfield's Angel Breath Inn became world renown as a hotel of legendary quality, featuring elite suites adorned with magical furniture. Even the Inn's common suites feature cloudsilk sheets on every bed, providing for nigh-divine rest and heavenly dreams to all their guests.

## Notable Finance Guilds

### Bearre Insurance

Founded: Expansion Era by William Bearre

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Bearre Insurance was founded during the Expansion Era in the wilds of the Dire Range, initially offering insurance for damages caused by Dire Bear attacks. The business was quite lucrative and the company rapidly expanded to offer insurance and protective services against all manner of Dire Beasts and even more mundane threats such as inclement weather and carriage collisions. While they do offer Premium rates on many of their services, they became well reputed for their "Bearre Necessities" packages in which they offer the absolute minimum services in areas where insurance is required by law.

## Notable Construction Guilds

### Kongo Construction

Founded: Expansion Era

Affiliation: Independent

Kongo Construction is a family-owned construction guild that specializes in the construction of shrines and monuments of historic holy beings.

### Congo Construction

Founded: Expansion Era

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Congo Construction is a construction guild that specializes in the construction of theaters and sports stadiums.

## Notable Music Guilds

### Imperial Orchestra

Founded: Expansion Era

Affiliation: Grand Symphony (Victorious Era)

The Imperial Orchestra is one of the longest-lived Music Guilds in the Empire, originally led by the famed musician Gustav Cantatio following a debacle in which he was ousted from then Emperor Oratio's personal choir. Despite the recent controversy, Gustav was able to rally a number of the most talented musicians throughout the world to join his Guild and word of their wonderful works quickly spread, yet the Guild would never play at any Imperially sanctioned events until long after the reign of Emperor Oratio had come to an end. By the time of the Classic Era, the Guild did live up to their namesake and became the de facto Music Guild entertaining for events ranging from yearly Processions to Imperial Coronations, though they never allowed their Imperial Affiliation to be officially recognized.

### Harmonic Stream

Founded: Victorious Era

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### Marquis

Founded: Victorious Era

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## Notable Entertainment Guilds

### Yamane Entertainment

Founded: Classic Era

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Originally a company that specialized in creating playing cards and traditional board games, Yamane Entertainment eventually became one of the world's premier names in entertainment after producing one of the first dedicated Maverick Gaming Devices, the Yamane Joy Screen. Future devices such as the Yamane Joy Cube and the Yamane Joy Sphere would later become staples of popular culture.

### Isekai Studios

Founded: Victorious Era

Affiliation: Eternal Festival (Cyber Era)

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### William & Sons Theaters

Founded: Conquest Era

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Once a family of traveling minstrels, following a lucrative deal with the Golem manufacturer, Homunculus Toys, William & Sons invented the Williamson Home Theater, an entertainment device that could compete with the growing Crystal Ball market.

## Notable Alchemical Guilds

### Reigis Alchemical Fruit Laboratory

Founded: Victorious Era

Affiliation: Omnia Sanguis Corporis (Victorious Era)

Better known as ReAL Fruit Labs, Reigis Alchemical Fruit Laboratory began as a company that sought to bring the sweet flavors of tropical fruits to the cold lands of the Northern Kingdom. As their artificial fruit extracts grew in popularity, it was not long before companies that utilized them to advertise their products as "Made with ReAL Fruit." While some cynical folks would claim that such labeling is deceptive marketing, most people do not seem to mind.

### Homunculus Toys

Founded: Classic Era

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Homunculus Toys is a company dedicated to the creation of Golems for entertainment purposes and recreational use. Their Little Little Star line of Golem Actors are a crucial component of the Williamson Home Theater.

## Notable Medical Guilds

### Lifeblood Apothecary

Founded: Classic Era

Affiliation: Omnia Sanguis Corporis (Classic Era)

Lifeblood Apothecary is a medical guild that operates several hospitals and produces a variety of alchemical products, primarily their premium branded potions of healing known as Lifeblood Potions, for public sale.

## Notable Transportation Guilds

### Imperial Rail Corp

Founded: Conquest Era

Affiliation: Imperial Rail Corporation (Conquest Era)

The Imperial Rail Corp is a Transportation Guild that specialized in the creation and operation of railways and locomotives that played an integral part in the Imperial Conquest of Newerld through its maintenance of the military supply chain into the continent.

## Notable Manufacturer Guilds

### Eyrn Industries

Founded: Classic Era

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Eyrn, pronounced "Iron," is a Manufacturer Guild that specializes in the production of construction tools.

### Chrome Tech Industries

Founded: Classic Era

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Chrome Tech Industries is a home and commercial appliance and furniture Manufacturing Guild that is famed for its "futuristic" and garish designs.

### Weston Smith Arms Company

Founded: Expansion Era

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Founded by the inventor and Ibian Rights Activist, Collier Smith, with the aid of entrepreneur and arms enthusiast Horace Weston, the Weston Smith Arms Company was among the first guilds to produce repeating firearms.

### Collier Manufacturing Company

Founded: Classic Era

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Founded by the descendants of Collier Smith, the Collier Manufacturing Company is an Arms manufacturing company with a notable selection of patented nonlethal weapon designs.

## Notable Workers Guilds

### United Rail Workers

Founded: Conquest Era

Affiliation: Imperial Rail Corporation (Victorious Era)

United Rail Workers is a Workers Guild that arose from low ranking members of the Imperial Rail Corp protesting the dangerous working conditions and low pay that they received from operating railways in the wartorn Newerld during the Imperial Conquest. While they were originally branded Newerld sympathizers and potentially even Rebels, through successful striking and union action that threatened to disrupt Imperial Army supply lines, the Imperial Rail Corporation had no choice but to accept their legitimacy and gave in to some of their demands.

## Notable Craftsmen Guilds

### Brotherhood of Steelsmiths

Founded: Ancient Era

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### Steam Engineers

Founded: Classic Era

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### Aegis Armorers

Founded: Expansion Era

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## Notable Artisan Guilds

### Highland Brewery

Founded: Unifying Era

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## Notable Gentle Guilds

### Horn Pub

Founded: Classic Era

Affiliation: AVC (Cyber Era)

Horn Pub is a Gentleman's Tavern that quickly grew in notoriety due to its focus on hosting rare female Satyrs as its primary form of entertainment along with Unicorn Shows which made many wonder about the supposed purity of the mystical beasts. While the initial location was a premium site intended to cater to eccentric elites, the concept proved too popular to remain in one location and for one class of people and so they diversified and franchised out. A Horn Pub Bronze location is designated with a display of Bronze and Ivory Deer Antlers and is intended for lower-income areas, a Horn Pub Silver location is demarcated with a display of Silver Ram Horns and is more middle-class centric, and the classical Elite Horn Pub Gold sites are designated with a Golden Unicorn Horn.