Honorable Order of Weavers
This guild is one of the oldest and yet most modest of Zobeck’s guilds. It produces an astonishing variety
of patterned and simple woolen, cotton, and silk cloth
using looms threaded and tended by its members and
its spidery weaving automatons. The guild sells one
or two enormous tapestries, true works of art, each
year, and they command huge sums. Its clockwork
weaving spiders are inhumanly quick and accurate but
also feared. Terrible rumors claim that they poison
and destroy the Weavers’ enemies, and sometimes
merchants who buy from the guild carry a spider to
distant targets outside Zobeck as part of their payment.
This seems entirely baseless and rooted in the spider’s
fearsome appearance. The single proven case of a
weaving spider attack took place within the city walls.
The Honorable Order does seem to have some touch
of the magical about it. Its members are close allies
of the Steamworker’s Union (who provide some of
their more specialized looms and counting tools)
and the Vigilant Brotherhood of Scribes (who rely
on the Weavers for certain obscure mathematics and
accounts). The Honorable Order clearly uses arcane
techniques to make such enormous volumes of cloth
and to weave such tight sailcloth. Like most guilds,
though, they keep their secrets well.
The guildmistress of the weavers, a young
woman named Philomena Flaxe (LN female
human rogue 4/bard 4), is thin with long limbs
and a quiet way about her. Her followers believe
she is blessed by Rava, for Philomena has received
admittance to the Clockwork Oracle not just once but a
dozen times. Each time, the Oracle’s words have helped
her and her guild. A few believe she should leave the
guild and join the priesthood.
Type
Guildhall
Parent Location
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