For those merchants that didn't know, I own one of each kind of cartel, and allow anyone to join. The dues for each of the cartels are 100gp a year, which you can find bashing for under five minutes. Or, five seconds for some.

Cartel/leader

The Black Anvil - Richter
The Fates' Thread - Bau
Clockword Craftwork - Bastion (someone find this guy and tell him to get active or give me my cartel back!)
The Dragon's Hoard - Kiarlea
Silverscribe - Syrel
Twilight Delights - TBA soonish

There's also the Merchant's Guild (which is technically a forging cartel as well), which is trans merchants. We provide services to each other for base comm cost, the entrance fee is 15k.

All cartels have a room in Deepnight, in the tradehall. Heck, we even have poisons and arts rooms.

Most of the reason that I'm posting this is because we have a terrible lack of people wanting to submit designs, and it's mostly one person doing all of my designs for most of my cartels. If you want to get something made, by all means, join and get it made!

The top rank players in each cartel (those who belong to the cartel as well as the Merchant's Guild) can all induct people, find them or myself to get in.

Ooo! Oo! I'll head Clockwork!

Owning the Eboncraft cartel isn't enough to channel all my design ideas.

Which one is jewelry?

Dragon's Hoard.

And in order to run one of my cartels, you have to be in the Merchant's Guild.

Fine...be on at the same time as me again.

I will join forging one when i buy some more clan slots.

How long has Bastion been inactive now? Gotta be over three months or so.

Bastion is never inactive, he's just asleep for long periods of time. Lazy bastard. Incidently, he's awake at the moment...

Well, I miss having you around, but you really should transfer the cartel back, I need new stuff submitted every year, and I want to be in contact with my trademasters. I have a personal friend and long-time player of Lusternia that wants to take a shot at it. Unless you can be active all the time, ya know.

I already had right when I saw the message. I'd forgotten that you didn't have some ultra overlord powers with all those cartels where you could transfer ownership from any of them on a whim. My apologies for making you and your cartel wait.

I'll see how this rumored new guy works out. But if he's no good, I'm contesting. Or something.

And you also need to not get caught running (or even being in) one of his cartels... which I think means, you can't be head. It shows in Honours.

Don't forget that he's an enemy.

It's uh... not my cartel. *eyeshift* It's Lirathea's.

I ran out of clan slots and had to quit the trans tradeskill clan. I hope you don't charge me another 15k when I rejoin, *eye*

I need him unenemied! If I have to submit all my designs through Bashara and Eboncraft, I'll go mad.

Unfortunately, that depends on roleplay... and especially depends on whether he even wishes to be unenemied. It *is* possible to be in his clans, as long as you don't draw attention to it / they're hidden / we don't notice until then you should be relatively fine. Just keep in mind that it is a risk. (And while I may be half-implying that it's okay OOCly, remember that Xen doesn't have much tolerance for rule-breaking, which is something else to keep in mind).

And no, I obviously won't be using this forum thread to keep more of an eye on you / watch for infractions.

Heh, I like Xenthos OOC. Too bad I have no use for you in the game.

I'd like to join the cooking one...but clan slots are too expensive We'll see though

Nah, just toss over $40 and get 4 extra slots. Cheap cheap.

What to do, what to do... On one side I want Fate's Thread to thrive so they have as many designs as possible, On the other hand, I don't like the competition...