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| * **The Renaissant:** These are the people who have decided the best way to face eternal entrapment is to make it incredibly enjoyable. Consisting of many of the city’s artists, entertainers, socialites, bon-vivants, poets, authors and, or course, their adoring public, the Renaissant are the largest guild in the city, kept only from being being the definitively most powerful by the looseness of their affiliation and their vicious internal politics. | * **The Renaissant:** These are the people who have decided the best way to face eternal entrapment is to make it incredibly enjoyable. Consisting of many of the city’s artists, entertainers, socialites, bon-vivants, poets, authors and, or course, their adoring public, the Renaissant are the largest guild in the city, kept only from being being the definitively most powerful by the looseness of their affiliation and their vicious internal politics. | ||
| * **The Union:** Originally formed out of the many disgruntled henchmen dragged along to this place by their evil masters, the Union is founded on the principle of cooperation being the route to true strength. As evidenced by their continued success within the cut-throat environment of the City, this philosophy has proved extremely accurate. The Union concerns itself primarily with improving the conditions of its members, and making lots, and lots of money. | * **The Union:** Originally formed out of the many disgruntled henchmen dragged along to this place by their evil masters, the Union is founded on the principle of cooperation being the route to true strength. As evidenced by their continued success within the cut-throat environment of the City, this philosophy has proved extremely accurate. The Union concerns itself primarily with improving the conditions of its members, and making lots, and lots of money. | ||
| - | * **The Pantheon of Discord:** A collection of gods and goddesses who band together not because the necessarily get on (indeed quite often gods can bearly stand one anther) but because the thought of working for a lesser being is intolerable to most of them. | + | * **The Pantheon of Discord:** A collection of gods and goddesses who band together not because the necessarily get on (indeed quite often gods can barely stand one anther) but because the thought of working for a lesser being is intolerable to most of them. |
| * **The Contrite:** You find religion everywhere, as evidenced by the number of gods minor and major who have ended up in the City (thought now to number in the hundreds, if not thousands). The confines of the city, however, give religion a leaning towards cults of contrition and self-abasement - the unifying message being that imprisonment within the city is a punishment for evildoers and the unfaithful, and only by absolving its denizens of their sins will release ever come. So many of these cults sprang up in the early years that they began working together, and out of that mass of religious fervour was born the Contrite. Constantly seeking ways to atone for their supposed sins, purify those around them, and stamp out alternative religions, the contrite have been an enduringly powerful, if sometimes unpredictable, force within the city. | * **The Contrite:** You find religion everywhere, as evidenced by the number of gods minor and major who have ended up in the City (thought now to number in the hundreds, if not thousands). The confines of the city, however, give religion a leaning towards cults of contrition and self-abasement - the unifying message being that imprisonment within the city is a punishment for evildoers and the unfaithful, and only by absolving its denizens of their sins will release ever come. So many of these cults sprang up in the early years that they began working together, and out of that mass of religious fervour was born the Contrite. Constantly seeking ways to atone for their supposed sins, purify those around them, and stamp out alternative religions, the contrite have been an enduringly powerful, if sometimes unpredictable, force within the city. | ||
| * **The Glorious Equation Of Prolific Enlightenment**: Many of the first to come to the city were scientists of some persuasion, and there has always been an undercurrent of academic inquisitiveness among a large proportion of the populace. In the last few hundred years, this has solidified into a guild, dedicated to science for science’s sake, to take advantage of the unprecedented gathering of powerful individuals from a myriad of cultures the city offers. In recent years, however, the side effects of some of their activities have made them extremely unpopular among the other guilds, and there are whispers that their days might be numbered. | * **The Glorious Equation Of Prolific Enlightenment**: Many of the first to come to the city were scientists of some persuasion, and there has always been an undercurrent of academic inquisitiveness among a large proportion of the populace. In the last few hundred years, this has solidified into a guild, dedicated to science for science’s sake, to take advantage of the unprecedented gathering of powerful individuals from a myriad of cultures the city offers. In recent years, however, the side effects of some of their activities have made them extremely unpopular among the other guilds, and there are whispers that their days might be numbered. | ||
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