Category:Assassins' Guild

An assassins' guild is an organisation that treats death as a commodity. It and its members are in the business of providing murder as a service, in exchange in for money. Assassins' guilds are usually criminal organisations. They consist of professional murderers who may well be, although are not necessarily are, members of the assassin class. Members of assassin's guilds are assassins' guildsmen and are led by an assassins' guildmaster. Assassins' guilds are usually monopolies: they seek to be the unique provider of their service to the market and they are willing to kill to ensure that this is the case. Assassins' guilds generally offer a professional service: their members are cold-blooded killers who are not supposed to let their emotions get the better of them. Assassins' guilds usually offer confidentiality. Assassins' guilds generally go to great lengths to be reliable. Consequently, assassins' guild do not offer cut-throat pricing. Assassins' guilds are for client who care not about price but rather about quality. In effect, assassins' guilds offer the service of individuals who deem themselves to be craftsmen. An indiscriminate mass slaugther is the work of mercenaries. A botched murder is the work of a drunken thug. An assassin and in particular an assassins' guildsman is neither.

Assassins' guilds are known to exist in Barovia, Darkon, Port-a-Lucine, Falkovnia,