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Innkeepers Guild: a road-spanning network of inns that doubles as the safest place to hide, trade rumors, and set traps.

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What they are (publicly)

A respected hospitality guild that sets standards for:

• clean rooms
• fair prices
• safe stables
• traveler mediation (no blood on the threshold)

What they are (actually)

A soft-power intelligence and logistics network.

They control:

• who gets a bed when the roads are dangerous
• what news spreads, and how fast
• which strangers get watched
• which pursuers lose the trail

The Guild: The Hearthbound Compact

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Works alongside: The Golden Road Concord. The Concord moves caravans and maintains official wayhouses. Hearthbound enforces the hearth‑contract and hospitality codes. Some inns belong to one, some to both.

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(common nickname: “Hearthbound”)

Motto (the rule everyone knows)

“No harm under a lit hearth.”