Golgari Swarm

Structure

The current guildmaster is the devkarin lich Jarad Vod Savo. He surrounds himself with High Chancellors who pass his orders down to advisors and then agents.

Public Agenda

The Golgari manage the city's waste and maintain its agriculture.

Assets

The Swarm controls most of the Undercity and the creatures therein. Its wealth lies in its rot farms and hordes of fungal drudges and undead.

History

The Swarm was founded by the devkarin lich Svogthir.

Military

Like most guilds, the Swarm maintains an organization of warriors for its internal safety as well as clashes with opposing forces. Additionally, the Golgari boast a near-mythical league of assassins: the Ochran.

Technological Level

The Golgari are opposed to waste of any kind and find beauty in the life borne of decay. This ideology has led to grand advancements in necromancy, a field most other guilds find distasteful at best.

Foreign Relations

Golgari View on Other Guilds

To the Golgari, the other guilds of Ravnica are shortsighted and inevitably doomed to collapse.

Azorius: "Such hubris! As if all their laws cold shore up this crumbling society. Their regulations and institutions are just detritus in the making."

Boros: "The Boros speak a language we will never understand. Their militant dedication to empty concepts like 'justice' and 'righteousness' is both confusing and disturbing."

Dimir: "They collect information like trinkets, so how can they ever grasp the deeper truths we possess? But their presence in the Undercity is an all-too-real threat to our dominion beneath the streets."

Gruul: "The Clans serve as effective instruments of the natural cycle, though in their anger, they are blind to the extent of the role they play."

Izzet: "Perplexing. They are attracted to whatever flashed brightest and booms loudest. Their fascination with their toys will only hasten their own end."

Orzhov: "They flout the natural order and use their knowledge of death to resist its pull. While their bodies rot, their spirits persist, clinging to the fiction of material wealth."

Rakdos: "They understand the inevitability of death but seek to hasten its arrival for the petty ends. What the demon destroys, we nurse back to life again."

Selesnya: "Their reverence for nature is the mark of immaturity and naiveté. They fear death, so they can't understand life They can be dangerous when they fervently cling to their narrow-minded and inadequate view of life."

Simic: "They seek patterns in the natural world, which is commendable enough, but they believe the search will lead to find perfection through all of its flaws. They strive to move forward but fail to see that the path they tread is cyclical."

Agriculture & Industry

The Guildpact's original mandate put the Swarm in charge of managing the city's agricultural systems. To that end, the Swarm's rot farmers and fungal gardeners produce enough food to feed the city. While the Golgari's lichen kitchens are free and open to the public, they also sell their rarer stock to the myriad restaurants and gourmet kitchens of Ravnica.

Trade & Transport

The Swarm maintains a vast underground highway and transport route. To trade with the surface, they manage ports and markets in Deadbridge Chasm.

Education

Of the guilds, the Swarm is most affected by racial politics: the devkarin, the kraul, and the gorgons were all subsumed into the Swarm as whole ethnic factions. Those members of the Swarm and those under its protection who belong to none of these groups usually answer to the devkarin.

All that being said, each group educates its children according to its own cultural traditions. Those who go on to carry leadership roles within the Swarm are educated or sent to education by their superiors.

Infrastructure

The Swarm maintains the entirety of the passable Undercity. They are more connected to districts beyond the Tenth than most other guilds and have an affinity for mining and repairing fallen structure.

Founding Date

1 ZC

Type

Exotic, Gestalt Consciousness

Leader

Jarad Vod Savo

Major Exports

Golgari exports comprise almost exclusively mushrooms, fungus, and lichens. Some undercity crafters sell their unique wares to the surface as well.

Location

Svogthos

Controlled Territories

• Korozda
• Penvar

Notable Members

• Jarad Vod Savo