Moneychangers' Guildhall

This grand edifice serves one of the most powerful guilds in the Free City, and one of the most unpopular. The Union of Moneychangers and Pawnbrokers is a potent force. The union members are effectively the city’s bankers, lending money for trading ventures and issuing credit notes for merchants who would rather not travel with cumbersome chests and coffers of heavy coinage. The moneychangers also lend money to those whose credit looks solid, and their rates of interest have often provoked deep hard feelings.
Much of the work of the guild’s members is transacted here at the hall, for their unpopularity coupled with the cash they must carry along, make the moneychangers disinclined to walk the streets or ply their trade from booths in the marketplaces. The union has members throughout the city (though in the poorer district they tend to be more pawnbrokers than moneychangers) and has several permanent representatives at the Merchants’ and Traders’ Union.
The guildhall has offices on the ground and second floors, with a huge ballroom/ auditorium in the cellar for guild meetings. The vaults are on a level below the ballroom. This guild works most closely with the Union of Merchants and Traders, the Guild of Mintworkers (which supplies coinage), and Greyhawk’s noble families. Small shrines to Zilchus are everywhere, though a few shrines are present to other known gods of money and trade, such as Xerbo.

Type

Guildhall

Parent Location

River Quarter