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Guilds of The Shattered World (Background) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Guilds are organized to protect their members, teach new craftsmen in carefully controlled numbers (so as to maintain the guild members' income), control trade within their craft, and exchange information relating to skills. |
 | | Also, the guilds often have their own plans, often in conflict with all national interests, and there are many guild members who consider themselves Guild member first and subject of a king second. |
 | | The tools of the Navigator are the astrolabe, a sighting is used to measure the angles between the fragments and the stars to determine positions, and the orrery, a device for determining future positions of the fragments. |
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