Explorer's Guild
The Explorer's Guild exists to find all the hidden corners of the world and bring light to the darkness.
Structure
The guild is comprised of multiple semi-autonomous chapters throughout Minelara. Each chapter is responsible for its own expeditions, surveys, and other expenses. It is not uncommon for several individual chapters to come together to fund a particularly large expedition, especially if the risk to an individual chapter is too great.
Despite this, the organization does have a central council comprised of regional chapter heads that meets on an annual basis. Normally the group determines goals and objectives for the next year, as well as sallocate some degree of funding for each region which the regional heads disperse as needed. Every now and then, depending on what events transpire, the group may call an emergency session. In these rare instances, wizards-for-hire are employed to use teleportation spells in order to retrieve the council members as expeditiously as possible.
Public Agenda
The Explorer's Guild's stated purpose are the "Three D's": Discovery, Documentation, Dissemination. The guild actively sends out expeditions to run down tales of ruined cities, map their locations, preserve any knowledge, and publish their findings. In fact, the guild maintains one of the largest collections of lore and maps in the world at their headquarters in Lailenora, the capitol of the Elven Dominion of Bastrar.
Assets
The guild maintains guild houses in most major cities in which maps, equipment, transportation, and additional resources for members can be found and rented for a discounted price. Non-guild members must pay full price.
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