Guild

Guild (ギルド Girudo) is a team formed, organized and operated by a group of people. The term guild is mostly associated with online gaming groups from YGGDRASIL, but in the New World it is a medieval term that defines a person's association of a trade.

Overview
All guilds are headed by a Guildmaster, whose main job is to maintain and supervise the internal and external operations of the guild. Guilds can be formed by a wide variety of professional associations from merchants to adventurers.

YGGDRASIL
In YGGDRASIL, guilds are an association of players that have banded together to be conqueror of all secrets in YGGDRASIL. This involves, leveling up, conquering dungeons, participating in game events and even challenging other guilds. There are invitation scrolls that can be made and sent to players who want to join a guild. The maximum number of members a guild in YGGDRASIL can possess is 100. Equally, new guilds popped up in Yggdrasil at about the same rate as old ones vanishing.

In order to form a guild, they must first partake on a quest. In other words, one needed to carry out a mission when it came to registering a guild. There were actually eight types of missions to choose from, but only one needed to be perfectly completed. According to Touch Me, by completing the mission, he is able to gain the item which was the scroll. When opening the scroll, a new window will popped up, showing a guild setup request form. This gives the user instructions and the means of entering relevant information to help him or her form their own guild.

Upon creating the guild, the new guild master must make enough invitation scrolls for their required number of members joining it. A bell would rang continuously as the number of guild members kept increasing. While at the same time however, the territory belonging to a former existing clan will then be transferred over to their new guild. After conquering the dungeon and turning it into their guild base, all the Custom NPCs made by the guild members were also considered to be an inheritance given to the guild.

Guilds serve as a way to make the YGGDRASIL experience more enjoyable with friends while players go on quests, The purpose of a guild in YGGDRASIL not only serves a social one, but also out of practicality as the dangers of playing solo. Player-killing for example is a favorite past-time for many sadistic guilds that prey on new players to the game. A guild acts similar to a protective umbrella, that protects players from constant harassment and allows them time to cultivate their levels in order to gain more experience.

Guild Master
Normally, one would need developer tools to change a character’s backstory, but by through the power as guild master, one could directly access a Custom NPC's setting and edit them. This power seems to go hand in hand with the guild weapon wielded by them. Systematically, the position of guild master in a guild gives the player full command over the NPCs to do their own bidding. However, if the guild master did not give a specifically-worded command, they would not recognize it as an order.

Guild Weapon
It can only be used by the master of the guild. It is the symbolic representation of a guild and had to be built from scratch among its members. Its power can be varied by the materials put into making one. For that reason, it is actually possible in making the weapon as powerful as a World Item. If a guild weapon is destroyed, it will signaled the dissolution of its guild.

Guild Member
Other than the Guild Master, it seems the guild members also shared the same privilege like their leader in creating Custom NPCs and dungeon layouts with settings and backstories. Although the Custom NPCs are supposedly pre-programmed by their respective creator in the guild, they can still be reprogrammed if someone like Momonga holds the position as guild master.

Guild Base
Let alone a city, a dungeon can also be used by members of a guild as their home base if they were the first to defeat it upon discovery. While so, their guild base must be protected at all cost from foreign invaders. For that reason, it is quite possible to later lose control over their guild base afterwards if the invader have successfully manage to mount raids against it and laying sieges to their strongholds.

PK Guild
A term that describes guilds that prey on players for fun and amusement.

Information Guild
A term that describes guilds that specializes is in obtaining information and posting game walkthroughs and cheats on free forum websites to assist the younger players.

List of Guilds in YGGDRASIL

 * Trinity: Ranked as Number 1.
 * World Searcher: Ranked as Number 2.
 * 2ch Alliance: Ranked as Number 3.
 * Ainz Ooal Gown: Ranked as Number 9.
 * Great Cat Kingdom
 * Seraphim
 * Three Burning Eyes
 * Millenium Kingdom
 * Overseas Guild
 * Seiyuu Guild
 * Mercenary Magicians Guild

New World
The setting of the New World is that of a medieval world thus guilds are prevalent throughout the world and a part of everyday life. They are unions of trade that maintain and facilitate the flow of goods and services throughout society. Each guild occupies its own unique niche in the economy.

Guild Master
A person in-charge of guilds, each differing from their own area of expertise.

Adventurer
Adventurers who are tasked with assigned mission from the Adventurer's Guild.

Magic Caster
Magic casters who are conducting research and the production of magical equipment.

Pharmacist
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Merchant
Merchants who are monitoring and regulating trade in different parts of the region.

List of Guilds in the New World

 * Adventurer's Guild
 * Magician's Guild
 * Pharmacy Guild
 * Merchant's Guild

Trivia

 * Ainz Ooal Gown is a guild with only 41 players.
 * In YGGDRASIL, it was quite common to instigate wars with other guilds to weaken the powerful guild's influence.
 * Guilds in YGGDRASIL are recognized institutions, though there do exists groups called clan which acted as informal social bodies of players.