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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 801387" data-attributes="member: 8704">A thieves guild would not be a legal guild, it would be a hidden group, calling it a guild is sort of a inside joke, Yea it really is sort of a organized crime group, basically the idea is that powerful members of the 'Underworld" try to control what the goes on in the city by controlling the lesser thiefs, pickpockets, spies assassins, beggers and other less than legal groups in the city. Most thieves don't join the guild because they wish to gain anything from joining the group they join the group and hand over part of what they steal and in exchange the more powerful thieves in the city don't kill them. It works the same as a protection racket only the thieves hope to one day get strong, rich, or powerful enough to become one of the people on the inside. Call it a syndicate, the mafia, cartel, yakuza, gentlemen's club, the idea goes back a long long time. There are no rules or membership dues, you don't get anything from membership but protection from the organization and access to better fences. Run it like a protection racket, for everything you steal you have to give a precentage to these people (who would be shadowy and unknown) or somebody comes around and breaks your leg. If you haven't paid up then you can't use their fences and you better keep a very low profile.As far as a university goes, I would prefer a university with no classrooms at all, all teaching is done by tutors who come to you, it is expensive and only the rich can take advantage of it. Call it the Guild of Sages instead of the university, they have a guild house where they do odd research and if you are going to tutor in the city then you have to be registered. Education is a luxury item, it should be treated as such. Maybe this group and the mage guild is one in the same, many wizards are also scholars or loremasters in their own right.</blockquote>

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