The Metals Guild
Type  ·  Guild
Trades  ·  Smiths, metalworkers, jewelers, Mirrorwrights
Council seat  ·  Isidore Verdigris
Guildmaster  ·  Vincenzo Copper
"The seven-generation view."
The Metals Guild

The Metals Guild gathers the trades that shape ore, coin, wire, jewel settings, blades, fixtures, and the silvered work of the Mirrorwrights. It is old, conservative, wealthy in the slow way, and deeply invested in standards that survive more than one generation.

Character

The guild values continuity. Its elders tend to think in decades, not moods. That patience can be wisdom when the city panics, and obstruction when the moment actually demands speed.

A Split Head

The guild is one of the few bodies in Venturia whose leadership and whose vote are now held by two different people. Vincenzo Copper remains Guildmaster — the ledgers, the standards, the seals, the apprenticeships. But the trade houses hold the Council seat separately from the guildmastership, and this year they voted it to Isidore Verdigris of the Mirrorwrights, who had spent years saying out loud what the younger houses had started thinking: that the seven-generation view is a fine thing to hold in a century with a spare decade in it.

So the oldest, slowest guild in the city now speaks in the chamber with the fastest voice it has, and the elder it deposed still signs everything.

Connections

Related

Isidore VerdigrisThe Verdigris heir and a master mirror-maker, now the Metals Guild's Guild-Master on the Autumn Council — ambitious, impatient, and convinced that caution is only a slower way of losing. The Binding Crafts GuildThe guild of carpenters, masons, shipwrights, and construction trades represented on the Autumn Council by Master Artisan Celeste Orion. The Mirrorwright's CourtThe guild that makes Venturia's mirrors — including the rare "true mirrors" that show accurate reflections regardless of the city's peculiarities, for those who can afford to see clearly. Guildmaster Vincenzo CopperGuildmaster of the Metals Guild and, until this year, its Guild-Master on the Autumn Council — a conservative dwarf traditionalist voted off the seat his family held for three generations. The Gardener's GuildThe guild that tends the Tiered Gardens, preserving Venturia's impossible horticulture and the old techniques that keep it blooming. The Masquers' SodalityVenturia's guild of mask-makers, who have spent nearly a millennium learning that in this city, the line between face and mask grows dangerously thin — and some commissions are made for clients who never sit for fittings.