Guild

Guild has quite a different meaning in BatMUD than in other games. Instead of simply binding characters together, they are the main source for skills and spells thus they define what kind of character you are playing. In other words guilds are like classes in many other games.

All characters will start with ten levels of skills from their background followed by five levels from their racial guild. After that players may choose to progress in one or more guilds that match their background.

• List of open guilds
• List of closed guilds - closed guilds are no longer available for player selection.

There are also three other types of guilds in BatMUD:

• Background 'guilds' - These don't actually give any room for training or study. Levelling up simply gives you set of skills and spells.
• Racial guilds - Mandatory for everyone before you can join a real guild. Some of these offer serious skills and spells, others are more or less pointless ones. Luckily you don't have to train in them if you don't want.
• Societies - Also known as secret societies or simply SS's. They are player managed guilds that may offer a channel, stat boosts and skill/spell max risings. Usually gaining access involves cash, hands, friends or all three.

Guilds by background

The following are tables that map open guilds to different backgrounds. Some guild appear in multiple backgrounds i.o. they have less restrictions. E.g. squires can be joined from both civ and nomad background.

Civilized

Guilds for civilized background

Long name		Levels	Short name	Coders
Guild of Alchemy		30	Alchemists	Lanfear
The Bards' guild		30	Bards	Amarth and Walin
The Civilized Fighters		25	Civilized_fighters	Shardik
The Fellowship of Wizardry		25	Civmages	Shardik (Duke, Alaron)
The Disciples of Chaos		10	Disciple	Ulath
↳	Followers of the Scorpion	20	Aelena	Hackop, Gore, Pahvi and Dino
↳	Legions of the Blood God	20	Kharim	Darol, Gore, Pahvi and Dino
The School of Folklorists		25	Folklorists	Heidel
The Master Merchants		25	Merchants	Duke and Shadowjack
The Faculte of Runemagi		30	Runemages	Nalle
The Order of the Shadow Sabres		30	Sabres	Qazar
The Squires		15	Squires	Elwood and Shinarae
↳	The Legion of Knights	15	Knights	Shinarae and Elwood
↳	The Division of Cavaliers	15	Cavaliers	Shinarae & Elwood

Nomad

Guilds for nomad background

Short Name	Full Name	# Levels	Allows	Maintainer(s)
Archers	The Flight of Archers	30		Shinarae & Grizzt
Barbarians	Barbarian Guild	35		Ulath, Runeaxe, & Tarken
Beastmasters	The Herd of Beastmasters	15		Shinarae
Cavaliers	The Division of Cavaliers	15		Shinarae
Crimson	The Crimson Brigade	35		Era & Ulath
Disciple	The Disciples of Chaos	10	Aelena, Kharim, Tzarakk	Ulath
Kharim	Legions of the Blood God	20		Darol
Rangers	Rangers	35		Ulath & Duke
Squires	The Squires	15	Knights, Cavaliers, Beastmasters	Shinarae

Magical Guilds
Short Name	Full Name	# Levels	Allows	Maintainer(s)
Channellers	The Guild of Channellers	30		Shinarae
Psionicists	The Psionicists	35		Juggelo & Grimsh
Mage*	Brotherhood of Sorcery	10	8 mage subguilds...	Alaron & Ulax
Inner Circle	Inner Circle of Sorcery	10		Juggelo & Lampsa
Riftwalker	The Guild of Riftwalkers	15		Moss
Mage Sub-guilds
Name	Damage Type	# Levels	Maintainer(s)
Assembly of the Blizzard	cold	10	Juggelo & Lampsa
Brethren of the Flaming Sigil	fire	10	Juggelo & Lampsa
Devourers of Air	asphyxiation	10	Juggelo & Lampsa
Manipulators of Corrosion	acid	10	Juggelo & Lampsa
Summoners of Astral Power	magical	10	Juggelo & Lampsa
Venomous Convocation	poison	10	Juggelo & Lampsa
Wielders of Lightning	electrical	10	Juggelo & Lampsa

• The mage guild has eight sub-guilds with ten levels each. One sub-guild for each of the seven damage types plus one mastery sub-guild.

Good Religious
Short Name	Full Name	# Levels	Allows	Maintainer(s)
Animist	The Guild of Animists	20		Heidel
Druids	The Humble Druids	30		Shinarae
Monks	The Warrior Brotherhood	30		Noctur
Liberators	The Order of Ghost Liberator Paladins	35		Heidel
Nuns	Sisters of Las	35		Zin, Dazzt & Brock
Tarmalen	The Followers of Tarmalen	30		Dralith & Shinarae
Templars	The Templars of Faerwon	30		Dralith, Gurth & Grimsh

Evil Religious
Short Name	Full Name	# Levels	Allows	Maintainer(s)
Aelena	Followers of the Scorpion	20		Hackop
Disciple	The Disciples of Chaos	10	Aelena, Kharim, Tzarakk	Ulath
Evil Priests	Evil Priests	35		Era, Kimvais & Coren
Kharim	Legions of the Blood God	20		Darol
Reavers	The Cult of Reavers	30		Shinarae
Spiders	The Blades of the Spider Queen	30		Era & Shinarae
Tigers	The Brotherhood of the Black Tiger	30		Dralith & Shinarae
Tzarakk	Slaves of the Beastmaster	20		Ulath & Blasterr

Any Background
Short Name	Full Name	# Levels	Notes	Maintainer(s)
Explorers	The Band of Explorers	5		Ulath
Navigators	The Association of Mystical Navigators	5		Noctur & Machaon
Sailors	The Union of Sailors	0		Melemkor
Lunar_Defender	The Lunar Defenders	1		Shinarae

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