Editing Guilds
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Originally, the [[Guild Council]] was an organization that worked in tandem with the King, drafting their own legislation and approving construction and regulatory proposals made by the King. However, after King [[Kerath]] abdicated the throne in [[6977 DE]], ending the [[List of D'ni Kings|reign of the kings]], he transferred full power to the Guild Council, appointing five Great Lords to lead it. After that, the 18 Major Guilds - each represented by 19 Guild Masters and one Grand Master - ruled D'ni completely. Kerath had argued, "D'ni is the Guilds," and he could see no other organization better suited to rule D'ni until the coming of what he believed to be the true Great King – he strongly believed that King [[Ahlsendar]], thought by many during his reign to be the prophesied Great King, was in fact a fraud and a liar. | Originally, the [[Guild Council]] was an organization that worked in tandem with the King, drafting their own legislation and approving construction and regulatory proposals made by the King. However, after King [[Kerath]] abdicated the throne in [[6977 DE]], ending the [[List of D'ni Kings|reign of the kings]], he transferred full power to the Guild Council, appointing five Great Lords to lead it. After that, the 18 Major Guilds - each represented by 19 Guild Masters and one Grand Master - ruled D'ni completely. Kerath had argued, "D'ni is the Guilds," and he could see no other organization better suited to rule D'ni until the coming of what he believed to be the true Great King – he strongly believed that King [[Ahlsendar]], thought by many during his reign to be the prophesied Great King, was in fact a fraud and a liar. | ||
Just prior to the [[fall of D'ni]], Guild Master [[Aitrus]] of the [[Guild of Surveyors]], with the help of his wife [[Ti'ana]], began proposing measures that would give | Just prior to the [[fall of D'ni]], Guild Master [[Aitrus]] of the [[Guild of Surveyors]], with the help of his wife [[Ti'ana]], began proposing measures that would give some of the authority of government back to the commoners of D'ni. This was met with considerable resistance from the entrenched aristocracy behind the Council, but the measures passed. Unfortunately, nothing is known at this time about what these measures actually did to empower the general populace. | ||
==Structure== | ==Structure== |