Post by Elyon on Mar 20, 2014 4:57:49 GMT -8
The Merchant's Guild is the youngest of Ankh-Morpork Guilds, founded in self-defense by the city’s traders and shopkeepers when they realized that their role in the great scheme of things was to be robbed.
The Guild was thus formed to peacefully further the aims of its members, advertise the civic charms of Ankh-Morpork and beat seven kinds of hell out of anyone with a leather loincloth.
Along with attempting to protect its members, the Guild is responsible for helping them to become rich. This is known as "planned income-redistribution", and a key strategy in this scheme involves the difficult task of making Ankh-Morpork appear attractive to foreigners - in order of, course, to sell more stuff.
The merchants now hire large gangs of men with ears like fists and fists like bags of walnuts to point out that Ankh-Morpork is, on the contrary, a marvelously clean and decent city in which to live.
Guild Events
Aside from an annual 'Fire Sale' in observance of its anniversary, The Guild is hosts an annual dinner in a room above The Mended Drum, a masterful way for the merchants to thank those who have contributed to their income-redistribution throughout the previous year without having to actually do much of anything themselves.
The Guild was thus formed to peacefully further the aims of its members, advertise the civic charms of Ankh-Morpork and beat seven kinds of hell out of anyone with a leather loincloth.
Along with attempting to protect its members, the Guild is responsible for helping them to become rich. This is known as "planned income-redistribution", and a key strategy in this scheme involves the difficult task of making Ankh-Morpork appear attractive to foreigners - in order of, course, to sell more stuff.
The merchants now hire large gangs of men with ears like fists and fists like bags of walnuts to point out that Ankh-Morpork is, on the contrary, a marvelously clean and decent city in which to live.
Guild Events
Aside from an annual 'Fire Sale' in observance of its anniversary, The Guild is hosts an annual dinner in a room above The Mended Drum, a masterful way for the merchants to thank those who have contributed to their income-redistribution throughout the previous year without having to actually do much of anything themselves.
