House Thania

The youngest of guilds, House Thania has a lot to prove to the cities still. It operates the public transportation systems both within the cities and between them. These include the City's Steam Carriages for hire, the Skylines, and some high-end Sky Ships. While all of these machines were created by either the House Arcania or the House of Bronze and they still own the machinery secrets, House Thania's founder, Aphra Dawkins, discovered a powerful niche in the market. She invested in several Steam Carriages and began renting them out to citizens in Bolgarde. The business grew and she expanded, first to other cities and then to Skylines (the very first ran between Bolgarde and Dynabury).
Now, every city has a branch of the house and profits from the transportation system as it takes a percentage of the yearly earnings. This makes the guild a welcome member of any city, but the other guilds see this growing power as a danger and tend to target the House Thania, particularly during the Election years. Citizens who are not members of a guild however find Thania to be very useful but complaints have begun during the last decade about over crowding and a decline in good service. How wide spread this decline is may not be entirely true.
But due to the heavy competition from the other guilds and rising number of complaints, House Thania has struggled to maintain some of the more powerful cities. During the last Election year they focused on more distance cities, promoting greater infrastructure and better transportation. Indeed, they are predicted to hold Orglen without much competition this year given the amount of spending and projects they have sunk into the city. Their current biggest project is a Skyline through the high mountains of the Discam Mountains in an attempt to connect Orglen and Canstien.
Backing this operation with some of his personal wealth is the Guild Master, Matthew Prescott. A brown haired, middle-aged man, he has run the guild for nearly two decades. Those who know he describe him as harried, anxious, and prone to a fit of nerves. Many think this comes from his years overseeing the Skyline tracks in the Inner Four cities (the nickname given to Millrath, Steamdrift, Dynabury, and Bolgarde), while others suggestion there might be a darker reason for his personality, especially since it is said that he was not always this way.

Type

Guild, Professional