Ring of Silence
The Ring of Silence is a business with several different locations spread across the western side of the Somer Plate. They produce and sell various works of fine art and decoration, such as furniture, vases, paintings, and the like.
The Ring of Silence was originally several different businesses, smaller guilds, shops, and the like. This was until three individuals, Monvelm Cossal, Qo Ni, and Odrin Bernask, a guild master, a business owner, and a painter respectively, met at an inn and, after falling in conversation about money and affairs, decided to work together. They started to buy out other businesses and merging with other guilds to take over their clientele, workers, locales and contact networks in various cities in the Cinlon Region. They then would hire various professionals, from potters and painters, sculptors and models, woodworkers and jewelers, among other people within the society of various such arts.
The owners of the Ring of Silence, the children of the initial founders, work hard to expand their business and bring more and more artisans into their fold. Because of how they operate, with jealousy and a strict contract of confidentiality that their employees have to sign to join, the Ring of Silence is stretching its reach further and further across the western side of the Somer Plate. Every time the owners hear of another artisan setting up shop, or already running one, they scheme to take it over and bring the artisan to work for them, so that they will be able to get their hands on as much of the profits as they can. If a person refuses to join underneath them, the owners set their mind to destroying their reputation and business, so that the freelancer have no choice but to join them after all, simply to survive, or to leave and constantly move, the further the Ring of Silence stretches.
The end goal of the current owners is to gain a monopoly over all artisans on the Somer Plate. This is restricting individuality within art, as they want their employees to produce things exactly as they want to. Most people working for them are miserable, but are unable to leave, as they always seem to miss a certain clause in the contract when signing it.
Type
Consortium, Business
Organization Vehicles
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