Usurer's Union
The Usurer’s Union sees to the posting of daily as well as annual trade rates for items sold throughout the City of Escadia. This guild is comprised of barristers, gem cutters, jewelers, bankers, and loan agencies. The Usurer’s Union rates the current value of coins based on their mineral content. The Usurer’s Union helps the city fathers in establishing the amount of taxes and tithe charged not only to locals but specifically taxes charged to foreigners who visit the city for extensive periods of time. For this reason they are possibly the most powerful moneyed guild in the city.
Members of the Usurer’s Union are well trained and employed by all of the other guilds to insure their continuing profitability. The Usurer’s Union also sees to the appraisal and value set for gemstones and jewelry worked within the Escadia. This has worked well for them for many years as their trained gemologists are rumored to inflate the value of gemstones and jewelry sold within the city, selling finer stones and settings overseas through smuggling operations Prince Cordero Della Mata has arranged with The Middlemen. For example, no gem cutter or jeweler within Escadia may sell his or her wares without a license granted them by the Usurer’s Union.
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Guild, Merchant
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