The Herbalists Guild

GENERALITIES

Patron god: Black Sunset

Headmaster: ???

Specialty: Growth and study of various plants and fungi, as well as providing a vegetal food source for the Empire

APPEARANCE

A massive building towers the rest in the Herbalist Neighborhood: The Great Glasshouse that serves as headquarters for the guild. The first floor of the building looks like any other building in the empire, but the next floor, as well as parts of the roof are entirely made of glass. Above all, a big glass dome rises from the center of the building.

Surrounding buildings act as homes for the herbalists, but most have small glasshouses taking part of the roof, as well as little glass domes on top.

HISTORY

The guild has been around for a very long time, as part of the main underguilds of the Scholars Guild. Ever since the minerals trade with the Crystal Empire was initiated, the guild has managed to get their hands on a lot of seeds and plants through trade. Upon light, warmth and magic experimentation, they found ways to raise plants in special glasshouses. Since then, the guild has raised a lot in popularity and it is now ver close to becoming one of the twelve main guilds of the Empire. Even if that won't happen, it will likely get split into two underguilds or two completely separate guilds, as some grifix are there for research alone, while others want to grow food for the Empire, which makes them have completely different interests.

PATRONS

The patron goddess of the herbalists guild is Black Sunset. Her representation alongside Selenara in various records made the grifix think she was a goddess, like the great Sun Goddess, Selenara.

HIERARCHY

THE HEADMASTER

Many believe Fellen Grasslands to be the the headmaster of this guild, and she is indeed the one to represent it in the Scholars Council. However, truth is officially it's her father who is the headmaster.

THE HEADMASTER'S ASSISTANT

Currently Su, he acts as a secretary and helps the headmaster around.

Greensseekers

Grifix that are once in a while sent in expeditions outside of the Frozen Empire, in order to find plants and seeds to bring back to the guild. They also have to gather information about growing those plants and record information about the enviroments they grow in: temperature, soil, humidity, other notable information.

In the time that they are not on any expeditions they work on aclimating the plants they bring to the Empire and ease their growth.

When going out on expeditions, they go all together most of the time, but some of them prefer going in smaller groups or pairs. They are mostly looking for edible or usable plants such as cotton, and only bring back plants that do not already grow in the guild's greehouses. 

Herbalists

Common grifix part of the guild. They either study plants or grow them in order to provide food for the grifix. Lately, some sort of a trend has appeared amongst the grifix which made them prefer eating plants from the Herbalists Guild instead of meat from the Hunters Guild which cause the Hunters Guild to lose funding and influence.

UNDERGUILDS

The Herbalists Guild in itself is an underguild, and it is not that big, so it doesn't have any underguilds of it's own.