Guild of Glassblowers, Glaziers, & Speculum-makers

This guild is a small, highly professional organization whose members take care to give fast, efficient, polite service, although glass is not cheap. While a simple, stoppered flask may only cost 1 copper piece, replacing a pane of glass runs from 4 copper pieces for a four-inch-square pane up to 6 gold pieces for a four-foot-square pane. Sets of bottles of uniform size, thickness, and hue are more expensive than “odd bottles.” The guild procures the finest sand (from certain beaches in the Tashalar and in Tethyr) for the use of its members in making glass, and provides emergency equipment and glass stocks for their use.

A guild member convicted of deliberately breaking glass in place not belonging to him in any building in Waterdeep, without permission of the owner, or hiring someone else to do so (such as gangs of street urchins armed with rocks), is fined by the Magisters and expelled from the guild by the Master Specular. Such a miscreant can later be voted back into the guild by the membership, upon subsequent reapplication (and payment of another “entrance fee”).

This guild also makes many spectacles and magnifying glasses, typically costing 5-10 gold pieces each. Any full member of the guild has the skill to grind and polish a glass lens to a particular strength and focus.

Entrance: 20gp; acceptance by a majority vote of the entire membership
Dues: 15gp/year (member 9gp/year (apprentice)

Structure

Livery: Pink cloaks or robes with a large white circle on the breast.

Public Agenda

Jhalassan Thond - Speaker for the Guild, Thond Glass and Glazing Shop, Sleepers' Walk, Trades Ward

Assets

House of Crystal
House of Crystal storage
Thond Glass and Glazing shop

History

For many years, this guild was involved in an acrimonious dispute with the Watchful Order of Magists & Protectors over which guild would make crystal balls—a dispute that still causes grumbling long after the Lord’s Court ruling of twenty winters past: Anyone (including the Glassblowers) can create the crystal balls to the specifications noted by the client mages, but the balls’ enchantments can only be enspelled by individual, private mages working for themselves (not under hire by any guild, including the Watchful Order).

Type

Guild, Craftsmen

Leader

Maersar Rillithar

Location

House of Crystal

Controlled Territories

• House of Crystal

Notable Members

• Maersar Rillithar