Danhabn Shipwrights' Guild
The Shipwrights' Guild in Danhabn is a powerful trade guild that controls design and construction of Dragon Ships, longships, fishing boats, and cargo ships in Danhabn and in all of Danyund. The guild also is influential among the fishermen, loggers, blacksmiths, and lumberyards of Danhabn and Danyund, as those professions are closely tied to ship construction.
The Shipwrights' Guild strictly controls ship and boatbuilding in all of Danyund. No ship or boat, other than the smallest rowboats, are built anywhere in Danyund without permission of the Guild and a contract for construction with one of the member shipyards. The Guild enforces construction and seaworthiness standards for ships and boats and provides and enforces training of shipyard workers from common laborers up to journeyman shipwrights. Master shipwrights are owners of shipyards and members of the Council of Wrights. There are only four Master Wrights in Danhabn that are members of the Council. There are Master Wrights that own shipyards in other cities of Danyund, but they are not members of the Council of Wrights and have less influence in the Shipwrights' Guild. They also answer to the Grandmaster of Wrights and the Council of Wrights.
Structure
The Shipwrights' Guild is headed by the Grandmaster of Wrights, Margrethe Thøgersen. The Council of Wrights assists her in governing the activities of the guild. The members of the Council of Wrights are the Master Wrights that own and head each of the shipyards in Danhabn. At present, there are four Master Wrights on the Council of Wrights. Under the Council are journeymen shipwrights and apprentice shipwrights, and under the apprentices are common laborers of the shipyards.
Public Agenda
The Shipwrights' Guild publicly promotes the shipbuilding industry in Danhabn and Danyund. The Grandmaster Shipwright and head of the Guild, Margrethe Thøgersen, is a childhood friend and associate of Queen Ingrid Mortensen, and through her exerts considerable and direct influence on the government of Danyund and Danhabn, ensuring that the Guild has no competition in the shipbuilding industry and also controls a significant portion of the logging, lumber, and blacksmithing businesses in Danyund.
Given its influence and control of a large labor force and its other assets, the Shipwrights' Guild in Danhabn is not reticent about making its agenda known - forecefully when necessary. Crossing the Guild is generally a bad idea.
Assets
The Danhabn Shipwrights' Guild officially has few physical assets, just a building with an office and record books. Unofficially, however, each of the Danhabn shipyards are under the direct control the the Guild, and the shipyards and boatyards throughout Danyund are indirectly controlled by the Guild. As such, the Guild controls a large labor force (most of whom are rugged and powerfully-built shipwrights and laborers), as well as mills, forges, and tools for building ships and boats - most of which are also useful for making weapons. The Guild also has a sizeable stash of gold and silver collected from union dues and from its share of the proceeds from the sale of every ship and boat sold in Danyund.
History
The Danyund Shipwrights' Guild was formed at least hundreds of years in the past - no one knows for sure the exact date. Some 200 years prior to the current date, the Guild offices were destroyed in a fire that also burned all of the Guild's historical records. The Thøgersen family has controlled the Guild for as long as anyone can remember; however, their control of the Guild may soon end as Margrethe Thøgersen is unmarried and has no children. Factions among the extended Thøgersen family, the current Master Shipwrights in Danhabn, and the Danhabn royal family are maneuvering for control of the Guild and of Thøgersen Shipbuilding, the powerful shipyard owned by Margrethe Thøgersen.
Seal of Danhabn Shipwrights' Guild by Peter Nelson (Zero Sum Games)
The Seal of the Danhabn Shipwrights' Guild
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