Carpenters Guild

Overview

The Carpenters Guild is a powerful craftsmen and production guild, principally operating out of the Jade Ring. The Carpenters Guild oversees the production of lumber in the Lumber Zone of the Jade Ring, as well as various aspects of production throughout the city.

Lumber is a luxury in the city. Despite being renewable, the time and resources needed to bring trees grown in the Jade Ring is considerable. As such, the Carpenters Guild spends a lot of time in both the cultivation of lumber trees and crafting of carpentry goods. Most luxurious spaces in the city have lumber as a significant component in construction. It as also a primary construction material for airships and is therefore sought after as Novus continues to expand to the skies.

House Blackwood is tasked with overseeing the Carpenters Guild and is the official controlling stakeholder of the Lumber Zone of the Jade Ring. Between the necessity of lumber for a number if services in the city, both the guild and House Blackwood enjoy respect and wealth within the city.

With guild control lumber is expensive. This has led to many seeking to circumnavigating the guild's influence by seeking dispensation to build logging communities in the Outer Wilds. While the guild has opposed such efforts, the Brass Ring of Novus has granted this allowance. So far, the trickle of lumber coming into the city from the wilds has not unseated the guild's control, but House Blackwood has noted the new tastes or exotic lumber from beyond the city.