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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 2868013" data-attributes="member: 3448">"Your second position as Mouth is dealing with the Guilds. The arrangement has always been that as long as they did not rob the abjectly poor, and did not take all from others, they are permitted to operate with only routine police operations against them, in exchange for their unswerving loyalty to the Crown. Most nations of the world believe that Canberry does not have a Guild, but we do, and we have a small branch of the Black Guild. I have used them three times. I considered having the Duke of Brightspan assassinated-- that would have been my fourth. Most nobles do not know that the Black Guild exists; they are used more often by the merchant families. The infighting among the merchants as the trade has shrunk after the fall of the Southern Kingdoms has become vicious. This is why all the merchant clans have access to the guard. I believe there to be only a half-dozen of the Black Guild here in the city, but that's enough."Do you have any questions?""Can you recommend a scribe who is completely discrete and knows what you've told me?""I can send you mine."Kit thought for a moment. "How did you get your position?""I was a friend of Amelia's from when she was an adventurer as a young woman. When her father was dying and we hurried home, after her brother's death racing horses... I had to rebuild from scratch. The previous Mouth was also a follower of the old ways; he did not speak with me before he passed.""Thank you for all of your help. Are you sure about your decision?"Dame Esmerelda smiled. "I've served the Archduchy long enough, my dear. After Amelia passes... I will do the one last service that I owe to her, and then be done. Best that you not think on it. You can't persuade me, and you have much work ahead of you."</blockquote>

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