Category:Assassins' Guild

An assassins' guild is a criminal organisation that treats death as a commodity. It is in the business of murdering for money.

The typical assassins' guild affords its client a reliable and confidential service. It is intolerant of competition within its market segment and usually strives to establish a monopoly within a given territory. It does not offer cut-throat pricing but rather a high quality service.

An assassins' guild consists of assassins' guildsmen and is led by an assassins' guildmaster. A botched murder is the work of a drunken thug. A mass slaughter is the stuff of mercenaries. An assassins' guildsman is neither. Assassins' guildmens meet their obligations intelligently and efficiently. They are professional murderers who may well be, although not necessarily are, members of the assassin prestige class.

Iniquitous, indifferent, inept legal and political authorities are essential to the survival both of individual assassins' guildsmen and of their assassins' guilds. Judicous assassins' guildmaster decline commissions, which due to the statue of the target, risk precipitating the replacement of iniquity with virtue, of indifference with commitment, of ineptitude with competence.

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