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Setting - Player-Created Guilds

Player-Created Guilds are guilds that do not formally exist in the system but have been created by players for their characters – they have restrictions but rarely confer any bonuses, and exist purely for roleplay. A Player-Created Guild may occasionally be made into a full system guild, but only if it fulfils a useful niche. It is possible to belong to both a Player-Created Guild and a system guild in some cases.

If you would like to play a character based out of one of the following guilds or groups, contact the person listed under Created By to get further information.

If you would like to create a Player-Created Guild, talk to the Character Refs. Bear in mind that such guilds can’t simply be copies of system guilds without the restrictions – they should be something new.

The Royal Constabulary

Created by: Andy Gregg

Overview

Whilst, in theory, all members of the constabulary derive their authority from, and are ultimately answerable to, the crown prince, it is far from a cohesive, kingdom-wide police force. In practice, it is the local magistrates who each employ and command their own group of justicars. As a result of this, the exact nature and duties of these groups vary from area to area. In places where the magistrate is a priest of Order or Justice, it is not uncommon for the role to be filled by lay-members of the temple with even the occasional priest serving in the ranks. Where the post of magistrate is held by the local lord or land owner, he employs men as he sees fit, usually only maintaining an actual standing police force in particularly urbanised areas. In more rural communities, the lord my merely employ one or two constables whose job seldom entails more than travelling his land to drag back anyone who is suspected of a crime. In some cases, this may not even be a full time appointment so much as a case of handing a warrant to whoever happens to be in the town square looking for something to do.

Hierarchy

The Constabulary uses exactly the same rank hierarchy as the defenders, but with the following distinctions

  • The “rank and file” members are constables and not privates.
  • All other ranks are prefixed with the title “justicar” to differentiate them from defenders.
  • Officer ranks are usually only held as honorifics by a local mayor or magistrate, but some larger towns may have a full time justicar-lieutenant in charge of their town guard and large cities may even have a justicar-captain to coordinate their various watches, but this will always be a desk job rather than an active policing role. Ranks of justicar-major and above will only ever be held by a member of the judiciary.
  • Promotion can never be purchased.
Requirements

A Justicar must

  • Defend all subjects of the Kingdom.
  • Never, by action or inaction, place or leave a subject of the Kingdom in danger.
  • Never permit a known or suspected criminal to remain at liberty and fugitive from the law.
  • Use the minimal force necessary to apprehend such fugitives and bring them before the appropriate authority.
Members

PCs
Keale (Andy G)

NPCs
Justicar-Captain Frederick Bracken (Father to Warden Garnet Bracken; captain of the watch in the Van Heusen Capital)

The Church of the Creative Principle (incorporating Pope Biscuit’s World of Marvels and Circus Skills and Finishing School for Young Ladies of Quality and the Conclave of the Creative Principle)

Created by: Paul W

Overview

The Church of the Creative Principle is one of the less secretive and less widely condemned chaos cults in the Barony van Heusen. Founded and led in various directions by Artificer-Pope Biscuit, this small band of creatively-minded cake lovers justifies its continued toleration and the residency rights of its members by contributions to the Barony patrolee system. Members of all callings and races are welcome, although they are expected to contribute to the Big Bag of Fun. Young Ladies of Quality, Clowns and members of the Conclave of the Creative principle may be excepted from contributions to the Bag of Fun; instead they are expected to display decorum and peculiar bride-powers or terrify or amuse the public or take part in inadvisable research theology.

Members

PCs
Artificer-Pope Biscuit I of the church of the creative principle, hero of the barony, champion of the Labyrinth, order of the haruspex [Paul W]
Professor Fotheringill-Smyth (an obvious pseudonym) [Paul W]
Professor Smyth-Fotheringill (a nerdy academic) [Hobbit]
Professor Tropicana (a geography teacher) [Hannah]
That Other Professor (an invisible person; they just turned up, seriously we have no idea)[???]
Miss Stephanie Gunten Von Hemstedt (A Research student and former Miss Harriet Worthington) [Louisa]
Seeker Gish (a member of the Conclave of the creative principle) [Darren]
Miss Harriet Worthington, (A Young Lady of Quality) AKA Seeker Grogg [Tom Webb]
Beelzebozo (a clown) [Panda]

NPCs
Guardian “BrideBride” Fleur, the unweddable Bride (A bride)
The demon Bride (A Young Lady of Quality)
Alternate-universe !Future pathfinder Skulk, (A Juggler)

Alumni

PCs
Wizard Eddy Em (the former Miss Elizabeth Wentworth-Farlington) [Alicia]