Portal Guild

History : The Portal Guild is a guild of wizards and merchants that originated in the city of Maztiquelon. Around 50 years ago, the wizard Gilith discovered the method for creating teleportation circles, both one way and linked. He told his friend Bradar, a wealthy merchant, of his discovery. Unbeknownst to Gilith, Bradar was a member of the Merchant's Council, and Bradar immediately saw the potential in creating a guild that would build teleportation circles between major cities throughout the world and charge hefty fees for their use. With the, unbeknownst to Gilith, backing of the Merchant's Council, the two of them began to recruit both merchants and mages to their guild, the former to take care of the finances, the later to create the teleportation circles. Within 10 years, the Guild had teleportation circles between Maztiquelon and most of the other major cities of the world and had become one of the most influential organizations in the world. Since then, the Guild has continued to expand and now has guild houses in every major city in the world. Amazingly, though the secret of creating teleportation circles has been shared with many other mages, the secret has never (successfully) been leaked outside of the Guild.

Use and Availability : Though every major city has a guild house, each guild house usually only has permanent linked teleportation circles to a few other cities, though Maztiquelon is always one of them. The cost to use a teleportation circle depends on how much is going through the circle, though there are sometimes additional charges for going to certain locations. The guild houses usually have teleportation circles that are large enough to support horse drawn carts, though not necessarily to all destinations. If you need to get to a city that the guild house you are in doesn't have a linked teleportation circle to, you will need a guild mage to cast the Linked Portal ritual, assuming the destination has a permanent teleportation circle and there is a guild mage that knows the appropriate sigils for that location. Look in the discriptions of each city to see if it has a guild house and, if it does, to what other cities that city is connected to.

Costs : It costs 50 sp per person to use a teleportation circle from one city to another. If you need to have a guild mage cast the Linked Portal ritual, they charge you the full normal componant cost of the ritual in addition to the 50 sp per person. Beasts of burden with carts or carriages cost more, usually 100 sp per animal.