Merchants Guild
The Merchants Guild is Necromunda's economic powerhouse that is composed of dozens of individual guilds that administrate the constant flow of vital supplies (and of course, credits) into the world's Hives.[1]
Each Guild is composed of thousands of merchant families, more commonly known as Guilders, who have been granted charters by Necromunda's Planetary Governor, Lord Helmawr, that authorizes them to exclusively handle certain vital resources the Hive World possesses. Because of this, the power of individual Guilds vary from Hive to Hive, often depending on the local resources that are available to them.[1]
In the terms of Necromunda's power structure, the Merchants Guild has laid between the noble Great Houses and their vassal gang Clan Houses for centuries. This allowed the Merchants Guild to prosper to its current state, as originally merchant families were able to broker deals between warring clans and ensure that trade flowed smoothly into the Hives, even when gang warfare threatened to tear them apart.[1]
Known Guilds
- Guild of Salts[1]
- Gun-Guild[3]
- Mercators Cartographia[10]
- Mercator Gelt - Guild of Coin[1]
- Mercator Horologis - Chrono Guild (also known as the Guild of Cycles)[10]
- Mercator Lux - Electro Guild[1] (also known as the Guild of Light)[4]
- Mercator Munda - Iron Guild[1]
- Mercator Nautica - Water Guild[1]
- Mercator Noctus - Guild of Ash[8] - In reality a Genestealer Cult that passes themselves off as a Guilder family.[5]
- Mercator Pallidus - Corpse Guild[1]
- Mercator Pyros - Promethium Guild[1]
- Mercator Rex - Guild of Crowns[7][8]
- Mercator Sanguis - Slave Guild[1]
- Mercator Temperium - Air Guild[1]
- Mercator Viritas - Guild of Oaths[6]
- Merchant Guild[2]
See also
Sources
- 1: Necromunda: The Book of Peril, pgs. 6-7
- 2: Necromunda: Underhive Wars
- 3: Necromunda: Gang War IV, pg. 71
- 4: Fire Made Flesh (Novel), Chapter 1
- 5: Warhammer Community: Genestealer Cults in Necromunda, Free! (Posted on 13/08/2018) - Genesteal Cult Gangs in Necromunda, pg. 3 (Last accessed on 12/057/2024)
- 6: Necromunda: The Aranthian Succession: Cinderak Burning, pg. 38
- 7: Warhammer Community: 4 Times the Outcasts were the Real Heroes of the Underhive (Posted on 22/09/2021) (Last accessed on 22 September 2021)
- 8: Necromunda: Book of the Outcast, pg. 7
- 9: Necromunda: Hive Secundus, pg. 7
- 10: Necromunda: The Book of Desolation, pg. 8
Uncited appearances
- Necromunda: Underhive
- pg. 28 – The Merchant Guild
- pg. 32 - Trade Wars
