Accipiter Arcanist's Guild

The **Arcanist's Guild** of **Accipiter** was a fairly sudden yet quickly popular addition to the city's over-100 guilds, founded in late autumn 251 C. It dealt with all matters of the magical and arcane.

## Information

The Guildmaster of the guild was Leonis Zosma, a curious figure who seemed to emerge on the scene out of nowhere, but seemed fairly legit. The guild got popular quite fast as it was a definite gap in the market beforehand - there were mages in almost all guilds but no guild for the mages themselves.

The higher-ranking Guild Leaders among the guild helped run the guild by collecting adventuring comissions from clients, and leading their own expeditions on missions. Some of these missions involved rescuing persecuted mages in need. The guild leaders handled most of the day to day running of the guild and made decisions as a group with the guildmaster. The Guildmaster and the Guild Leaders were peers, with an understanding that each of them would handle their own areas of expertise without interference.

## Notable Members

### Ku Shortclaw

A small shy Owlin wizard, Ku had been a friend of the guildmaster's since Leonis helped him avoid arrest in Halcyon - Ku instinctually cast Feather Fall to stop someone falling off a ladder, and Leonis managed to cover for him. Ku moved to Accipiter to enjoy a more peaceful study of magic. He was shy, but made appearances at the guild's weekly poker night. He was in charge of accounting and record keeping, and devised a clever magical job board that copied itself onto other boards around the different guild buildings.

### Doctor Meredith Iterava

A human divine sorcerer, Meredith was an Accipiter resident and one of the first people who showed up to guild recruitement. She'd previously been running a small magical hospital near the Ninth Bridge. She became the leader of the medical side of the guild. Meredith was tall, stern, and tolerates no disobeying of doctor's orders.

### Vivian Tandžaly (Lavina Vitandyž)

A Halcyian mage and outlaw who was arrested in mid-251 C, she disappeared during her sentencing hearing along with the founding members of the Wildecards. After Copper of the gang ratted her out, she went into hiding for a few months. When the Arcanist's Guild was set up, Leonis arranged a meeting with her and recruited her to the guild. Because she was still wanted out west, she scrambled the letters of her name, bleached her hair, and went by Vivian Tandžaly. She worked in recruitment, especially vetting new recruits and making keeping the guild's activites all legal and above board (since she knew firsthand what was and wasn't illegal).

## Hierarchy and Teams

The guild was led by its Guildmaster and several Guild Leaders, who were in charge of the Senior Arcanists, who led the teams of Arcanist members.

Senior Arcanists of the guild (around 15-20 total) led the field squads on missions. Some of the members were crafters that fashioned magical items commissioned by other guilds; others were traders that purchased and sold on artifacts, books, scrolls, etc

Each teams or squad contained at least 1 person who could readily use, detect, or meddle with magic in a decently experienced way, as to comply with the guild's premise of solving all problems of a magical nature with knowledge. The teams stayed together and had their own names and rankings within the guild, becoming higher-ranking with successful job completions. There were often friendly competitions to be the highest ranked team, and small salary bonuses for the teams that had gone up the most each week.

## Other Information and Relationships

There was some competition between the Arcanist's Guild and the Adventurer's Guild, though their goals didn't always overlap. They did collaborate on some jobs, whereas on others it was a bit of a race.

The Arcanist's Guild made an effort to foster camaraderie between its members with game nights, feasts celebrating milestones, etc. The guildmaster turned up to most events he had time for, but didn't identify himself as the head honcho, but acted as a humble member. This was unusual for the Accipiter Guilds and made the atmosphere much more egaliratian. As such, Guildmaster Leonis maintained a decently casual relation with most of the guild. He was seldom seen outside his office. The higher rank guild leaders played along with this joke of the guildmaster being a cryptid to lightly tease recruits.