Butcher's Summit

The Metzgergewerkschaftsverband is the collective union of butchers, hunters, and leatherworkers that process the animals that pass through a Metzgereien. Being a member of the summit is considered a great honor in Villish culture; before the Huntsman's Court became predominant in Villish kingdoms, the Butcher's Union was generally regarded as the leading faction across Villish settlements.
While their influence does not carry nearly as much weight, the sheer reverence the Villish people hold them in is enough to grant them immense political standing, even compared to the Huntsman's Court.

Notable Positions

The sheer size and variety of game that passes through a Metzgereien means that there's a lot of different positions within the summit. The Summit strongly encourages its members to become adaptable in performing every task that comes with butchering a beast; Hunters are actually rarely direct members of the summit, but instead conscripted from the local town so that they may earn Zhanne. This longstanding tradition often influences the economy around meats handled throughout the town.

Butchers

While Butcher is a fairly broad term given the variety of different meats and beasts that pass through a Metzgereien, the title of Butcher is the most common one found amongst the summit. They're the people that focus on flensing the skin, separating the bone, and fileting the meats into manageable cuts.

Cleaners

Among the most important roles within a Metzgereien is the Reinigerinnen; or simply, 'Cleaners'.   Due to the sheer size of the beasts that pass through the district, a massive amount of offal and refuse often leaves the entire district stinking of gore and filth. Cleaners are thus employed to haul away the unusable bits of gore and bone, prepare equipment for its next use, or hose off entire platforms dedicated for holding down massive cadavers.

Craftsman

After the beast is flensed of skin by the butchers, what bits that aren't meat are sent to the Craftsmen of the guild. Craftsmen is a general all-purpose part of the summit that specialises in processing parts of the beast that would otherwise be unusuable; furs are scraped and tanned into clothing or armor, bone is whittled and shaped into efficient weapons that can rival iron in a pinch -- or in some cases, carved carefully to serve as framing for houses, and fats are used for a variety of purposes; such as candles or oils.

Meisters

While Hunters are typically conscripted from the locals that live within the village surrounding the Metzgereien. Despite that, the summit is famous for its specialised hunters that train in hunting down specific creatures across the diverse, yet dangerous landscape of Vilstrung.    Some might be trained to track beasts throughout the remorseless cold of the East, while others specialise in the fine art of rock climbing, where they may navigate safely across coastal cliffsides to take down beasts that dwell within the high mountains.   Meisters are special in the sense that they're charged with gathering the hunting parties and organising the masses to gather beasts for the district.    They're often seen as the local leaders of the Metzgerein, and serve as the primary representatives for the interests of the summit. Despite being a coveted position, becoming a meister is open to anyone that is willing to attempt the task -- they need only receive the training and blessings of another meister.
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