The Izzet League
The Izzet League are charged with attending to Ravnican civic works, including water supply systems, sewers, heating systems, boilers, and roadways. In addition to carrying out these functions, the Izzet members — obsessive, keen, and creative intellectuals, who often have short attention spans — are known to perform magical experiments with reckless abandon and sometimes with spectacular but severe results. Unlike the other guilds, the Izzet do not openly strive for hegemony of the city. Instead, integral to the Izzet League (a guild of masters of both theoretical and applied science and spellcraft) is the passionate seeking of, and thirst for, knowledge. Combined with their drive for discovery and child-like curiosity, the brilliant but capricious and whimsical Izzet Magewrights jump to and from ideas as they see fit, discarding old ideas for new ones that attract their attention. In this regard, they can be likened to ambivalent or benevolent mad and absent-minded scientists/professors.
The Izzet League is one of the few guilds whose Parun, the dracogenius Niv-Mizzet, remains its guildmaster, just as the guild continues to fulfill its original mission (even as its experiments go far beyond the guild's original mandate)[1]. According to most accounts, all Izzet Magewrights have an austere reverence for Niv-Mizzet, boasting his discoveries and achievementsin his long lifetime.
Izzet Laboratories function in a constant state of high energy that propels researchers from one experiment to the next. Some grand-scale experiments draw on the researches of an entire lab, while others are a lone visionary's labor of love. When commissioned by the Izmagnus or the Firemind himself, special research teams consisting of members from many different Izzet laboratories are formed, usually to take on specialty project of great importance.
[1]According to the Guildpact, the Izzet League's mandate was for civic works and "relevant researches into applied advancements of science and discovery". While the original mandate accounts for research, it does not account for the reckless abandon in which it is pursued.
Information reported by House Dimir and associates
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