Thieves' Guild

Thieves Guild System

Guild Structure

The guild operates through a hierarchical system where members start as rookies and slowly climb through the ranks to become masters or even leaders. The ranks are determined by the level of experience, skill, and successful missions completed.

1. Rookie – New recruits who are assigned basic tasks like pickpocketing, small burglaries, and espionage.
2. Apprentice – Members who have completed a few successful jobs and have proven their skills.
3. Journeyman – Skilled thieves who handle more dangerous and high-profile heists.
4. Master – Elite members with great influence within the guild. They oversee large operations and control territory.
5. Guild Leader – The head of the guild who controls the entire organization and its operations.

Guild Locations

The Thieves Guild operates in the shadows, so its locations need to be hidden or disguised, and each location can serve a different purpose, allowing players to interact with various aspects of the guild.

1. The Hidden Den (Secret Headquarters)
2. Location: Hidden beneath an abandoned warehouse, a rundown inn, or behind a false wall in a reputable establishment.
3. Purpose: The guild's main base of operations. This location serves as a meeting point, where missions are assigned, and recruits are trained.
4. Features: Secret passageways, hidden rooms, and vaults for storing ill-gotten gains.
5. The Shadow Market (Black Market)
6. Location: A hidden district, often in the slums or sewers of a major city.
7. Purpose: A place where stolen goods are sold, and illegal services (like forgery, poison, and blackmail) are offered. Also used for buying information or hiring specialists.
8. Features: Informants, shady merchants, and black market vendors who sell contraband. This is also a place for guild members to gather information or hire thieves for specific jobs.
9. The Vault (The Guild Treasury)
10. Location: A heavily secured underground complex hidden within a fortified building or secret cavern.
11. Purpose: Stores the guild's wealth, treasure, and important documents. The Vault is off-limits to most guild members except those who are ranked highly enough.
12. Features: Magical traps, hidden guardians, and complex locks. Often used for high-level heists or missions.
13. The Training Grounds (The Academy of Shadows)
14. Location: An unassuming, disused part of a city or a remote location far from the city.
15. Purpose: A place where new recruits and apprentices are trained in thieving techniques, including lockpicking, stealth, and social manipulation.
16. Features: Sparring areas, obstacle courses, and a variety of training materials such as traps, weapons, and disguised items.
17. The Hideout (Safehouses)
18. Location: Small, inconspicuous buildings, basements, or hidden rooms scattered throughout the city.
19. Purpose: Safe locations where guild members can lay low, stash stolen goods, and hide from the law. They can also be used to plan heists or store treasure.
20. Features: Secret passages, hidden compartments, and escape routes.

Guild Branches

The Thieves Guild is not just a collection of petty criminals but an organized network of individuals who specialize in various aspects of crime. Here are the branches a player can pursue when joining the guild:

1. The Cutpurses (Pickpockets & Street Thieves)
2. Role: Specialize in pickpocketing, snatching purses, and stealthily stealing from unsuspecting targets.
3. Skills: Dexterity-based skills (sleight of hand, stealth), quick reflexes, and social manipulation.
4. Missions: Stealing small items from crowds, distracting guards, or setting up scams in busy markets.
5. The Silent Blades (Assassins & Silent Killers)
6. Role: Experts in eliminating targets with precision. They specialize in stealth, poison, and assassination.
7. Skills: Stealth, stealth combat, poison crafting, and trap setting.
8. Missions: Assassinations, kidnapping high-profile individuals, eliminating threats to the guild.
9. The Lockmasters (Burglar & Safecrackers)
10. Role: Specialists in breaking into high-security locations, cracking safes, and stealing treasures from well-guarded places.
11. Skills: Proficiency with thieves' tools, expertise in locks and traps, stealth, and evasion.
12. Missions: Robbing mansions, breaking into vaults, retrieving important documents.
13. The Spies (Information Gathering & Espionage)
14. Role: Masters of gathering intelligence and stealing secrets. They specialize in manipulation, disguise, and finding sensitive information.
15. Skills: Persuasion, disguise, deception, and insight.
16. Missions: Infiltrating rival guilds, uncovering state secrets, collecting blackmail material on influential people.
17. The Smugglers (Contraband & Illegal Goods)
18. Role: Handle the transportation and sale of stolen goods or contraband. They also facilitate the movement of goods across borders or into secure areas.
19. Skills: Stealth, persuasion, navigation, and the ability to barter.
20. Missions: Smuggling illegal items into cities, moving stolen goods across borders, and black market dealings.

Key Quest Types for the Thieves Guild

1. Heists – Plan and execute major thefts, such as robbing a bank, retrieving an ancient artifact, or stealing a powerful magical item.
2. Requirements: Intelligence for planning, Dexterity for executing, and Charisma for manipulating the right people.
3. Reward: Large monetary gain, rare items, and a promotion within the guild.
4. Espionage & Infiltration – Go undercover to steal information, gain influence, or sabotage enemy operations.
5. Requirements: Deception, stealth, and social manipulation.
6. Reward: Valuable intelligence, reputation boost within the guild, and access to more sensitive missions.
7. Assassination Contracts – Take out specific targets who have become problematic for the guild or its allies.
8. Requirements: Stealth, precision, and possibly poison crafting.
9. Reward: Gold, weapons, and sometimes access to higher-ranked guild members or locations.
10. Smuggling Operations – Facilitate the transport of contraband or stolen goods through secure areas or across borders.
11. Requirements: Stealth, knowledge of the land, and the ability to strike deals with shady merchants.
12. Reward: Increased access to rare items, special equipment, and guild loyalty.
13. Training & Mentorship – As players rise through the ranks, they can be tasked with training new recruits or guiding less experienced thieves through dangerous missions.
14. Requirements: Experience, knowledge of thieving techniques, and leadership.
15. Reward: Influence within the guild, access to more resources, and loyalty from the next generation of thieves.

Guild Reputation and Progression

The Thieves Guild operates on a reputation system. Players can earn or lose reputation based on their performance, loyalty to the guild, and successful completion of missions. Reputation directly affects how much trust they have with the guild and the rewards they receive.

• Reputation: Completing missions successfully increases reputation, allowing players to access higher-level quests and earn better rewards.
• Rank: Players begin as rookies and can progress through the Apprentice, Journeyman, Master, and ultimately become a Guild Leader. Each rank offers different privileges, responsibilities, and access to specialized missions or resources.