Overview

As the peoples of the Heartlands grew to trust the agreement of the Gathering Treaty, the nations began to trade with one another. As a result, the differing merchants and traders pooled their knowledge and skills to form the Guilds.

Each guild specialised in a different art of profession, and undertakes to train its members in an area of expertise. Each also maintains a library where the knowledge of their guild is held. The Bards guild has a small section of the Great Library of Norhault and all other guilds maintain private libraries.

The Guilds exist to provide citizens of Erdreja who wish it with the means to learn a respectable craft through which they can earn a living and better serve other
- Tel Falcon previous chairman of the guilds council