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After your brief check-in with your master using the device, she sent you to the docks. There is some problem there involving the Artisans Guild. Whatever it is, it has shut down all the Guild's regular operations, and brought most traffic in and out of the harbor to a standstill. The Merchant-Queen wants it dealt with, and fast.

But as far as exactly what's going on at the docks, she didn't give you many specifics. Perhaps it's another test.

You know the Guild is a kind of commercial society of designers, craftspeople and skilled laborers of all stripes—wielding great power in a city that revolves around gold. Nearly all the skilled trades are represented among their ranks. They coldly prosecute anyone who attempts to work in any of their various fields within the Entissan city limits without entering into association with them.

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