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<blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 4758445" data-attributes="member: 34958">Queenie[sblock]Your character would not know all of this, but...BEGGARS’ GUILDOnce no more than a collection of beggars staying together to avoid persecution, beatings, and robberies from others, the Beggars’ Guild has grown into a minor power in the City State.&nbsp; Beggars are almost completely ignored by most people traveling the streets, allowing them to overhear bits and pieces of various conversations. Eventually, severalof the beggars realized they could turn some of this information into power. Some of this information enabled them to force the nobles to acknowledge their right to existence in exchange for silence.The Beggars’ Guild now controls several smuggling operations in and around the City State, and are thus considered rivals by the Thieves’ Guild. The much smaller Beggars’ Guild maintains its existence through careful dissemination of information about the actionsof the Thieves’ Guild to the Overlord and the Nobles. It is a dangerous balance, harming the Thieves’ Guild beyond a certain limit would certainly provoke an all-out attack despite the protection granted by the Overlord, and not providing enough information mightanger the Overlord or the Nobles enough for them to withdraw their protection. Ineither case the Beggars’ Guild would almost certainly be destroyed.[/sblock]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deuce Traveler, post: 4758445, member: 34958"] Queenie [sblock] Your character would not know all of this, but... BEGGARS’ GUILD Once no more than a collection of beggars staying together to avoid persecution, beatings, and robberies from others, the Beggars’ Guild has grown into a minor power in the City State. Beggars are almost completely ignored by most people traveling the streets, allowing them to overhear bits and pieces of various conversations. Eventually, several of the beggars realized they could turn some of this information into power. Some of this information enabled them to force the nobles to acknowledge their right to existence in exchange for silence. The Beggars’ Guild now controls several smuggling operations in and around the City State, and are thus considered rivals by the Thieves’ Guild. The much smaller Beggars’ Guild maintains its existence through careful dissemination of information about the actions of the Thieves’ Guild to the Overlord and the Nobles. It is a dangerous balance, harming the Thieves’ Guild beyond a certain limit would certainly provoke an all-out attack despite the protection granted by the Overlord, and not providing enough information might anger the Overlord or the Nobles enough for them to withdraw their protection. In either case the Beggars’ Guild would almost certainly be destroyed. [/sblock] [/QUOTE]

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