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Nobody can just be a criminal in this town. If you want to rob, extort, embezzle, pilfer, plunder or otherwise take what isn't yours, you need to be a member in good standing of the thieves' guild. Common to fantasy stories, the guild provides protection to its members (and eliminates their competition) in exchange for a cut of their ill-gotten gains. Sometimes, the guild will extend to assassins and other criminals; others handle only larceny. Similar to The Mafia, but there is no competing group of outlaws, nor solo operators. If you so much as cut a purse and you're not paying dues to the guild, someone cuts your throat. Usually there is a boss of the thieves, a King of Thieves, who gets a cut of the proceeds from any heist. Most guilds have layers of organization; depending on how many, the people doing the actual thieving may get a minority of what they actually steal (there is more than one way to take someone's money). Often, thieving is treated as a craft, and would-be members must go through an apprenticeship before becoming true guild members. Often, the legitimate powers that be will turn a blind eye to the guild's dealings, as long as the members lay off certain targets (e.g., nobles). Sometimes, the thieves' guild is more powerful than the recognized authority. There could easily be a civil war if the balance of power shifts or the authorities want something, however. If more than one guild begins to operate in town, the fantasy equivalent of a Mob War can easily break out. A type of Weird Trade Union, though a thieves' guild is usually more important to a story than most examples of that trope. Compare with Murder, Inc.. The Syndicate may fill a similar role in many modern settings. The working language of such a guild is typically a Thieves' Cant. If the authors don't think about it, may lead to a case of More Criminals Than Targets. Common character types associated with the guild include: The Fagin, The Artful Dodger, Street Urchin. |
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Aladdin: The Series often features a Thieves' Guild working in Agrabah. One episode had Jasmine trying to steal something to prove herself that she could be a "street rat" like Aladdin. She gets caught by a thief... who then hands her his card and tells her she has 30 days to obtain a Guild permit. The headquarters itself is located in a Bad Guy Bar called the Skull and Dagger. | |
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Betrayal at Krondor: There's a guild of thieves called "The Mockers" who operate in the sewers under Krondor. It's even explained in-universe that the authorities can't get rid of them due to their numbers and ability to gather intel; they'd know in advance if an attack was incoming and would rob the houses of the soldiers sent to sort them out. | |
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Dragon Age: Dragon Age II: Kirkwall's major Thieves Guild is The Coterie. During their first year in Kirkwall, Hawke can work for either The Red Iron Mercenaries or Athenril's Smugglers, depending on their choices. Other criminal gangs encountered are the Carta, the Raiders of the Waking Sea, Guard Pretenders, Redwater Teeth, Sharp's Highwaymen, Invisible Sisters, Dog Lords, the Undercuts, Slave Hunters, Followers of She, Crimson Bloodragers, most of whom Hawke will eradicate for the Friends of Red Jenny. Yeah, Kirkwall is that kind of town! Dragon Age: Origins: You can perform a job for the Friends of Red Jenny, but it's not until Dragon Age: Inquisition that you find anything about them. They're made up of lower-class people with no central leadership with a goal of getting back at nobles that they've got a grudge against. They carry out everything from harmless but embarrassing pranks to theft to the occasional assassination. |
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The Flash: The Rogues pay dues, have health plans and even consider themselves a branch of Keystone Local 242. | |
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The Zero Stone: The protagonist, Murdoc Jern, was the adopted son of an appraiser who had retired from the Guild. | |
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Dragaera: The Jhereg Organization contains almost all organized crime in the Dragaeran Empire, including assassinations, illegal goods, untaxed gambling and lending, and thievery and selling stolen goods. | |
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Legends & Lattes: The local thieves' guild runs a Protection Racket rather than actively stealing everything that isn't nailed down. Viv considers trying to fight them to protect her new coffee shop, but instead is able to buy off the Affably Evil guild leader with free pastries. | |
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Eberron: Sharn's four major criminal organizations are more like ethnic gangs, given the pulp-influenced Dungeon Punk setting. | |
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A Modest Destiny: The Thieves' Guild also doubles as something of an assassins' guild, employ Ninjas and, according to bonus material, were invented to balance out the economy. | |
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M: A Criminal Union (mostly made up of thieves, like the leader Safecracker) ally themselves with the local Beggars Union to catch a child-killer. This is mostly because the resulting police crackdowns are bad for business, but they also claim that even they won't tolerate a man who kills children. (A case of Truth in Television, as Fritz Lang noticed that a local criminals' union offered to help the police catch one of the serial killers he based the film on.) | |
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The Watch (2021): One of the crime guilds in Ankh-Morpork, who have a quota on thefts. Within it, they can steal. | |
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Doctor Who Magazine: In "The Cornucopia Caper", the planet Cornucopia is ruled by an alliance of criminal guilds, each one responsible for a different area of criminal activity: thievery, kidnapping, blackmail, hijacking, etc. | |
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Tales of Vesperia: There's made mention of the Dark Wings being the Thieves Guild of Terca Lumireis. | |
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Swan's Braid & Other Tales of Terizan: Terizan joins up with the Oreen thieves' guild by getting into their sanctum without being caught, something no one ever managed before. Their leaders, the three Tribunes, are quite impressed and offer her membership immediately. No thief is deemed worthy if they can't find its hidden headquarters by just looking on their own before sneaking in. The Tribunes continue to appear, with each story being set off by them giving Terizan an assignment. | |
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has one. Official government policy is to deny its existence. Of course, this is probably a ploy of the Guild, considering the number of public officials who take bribes to look the other way. | |
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Old West: There exists the Gunslinger Court. It's sort of a hierarchy among outlaws founded in order to keep the outlaws from tearing each other apart. Only those outlaws who are best at what they do are accepted as members, allowing them to contact each other for special jobs when needed. Rattlesnake Jake is the founder and the highest member in the pecking order, being known as the Grim Reaper of the West. Other known members are his second in command Reth ("the Carpenter"), the third in command Delilah Rangler ("the Scarlet Kiss"), Irvin Worst ("the fire breather"), Johan Quall ("the fickle thief") and Kepper ("the knife nut"). In the second half of the story, the Big Bad assists the upstarts in injuring Jake, giving room to contest for leadership. | |
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Discworld: Ankh-Morpork's Guild of Thieves, Cutpurses and Allied Trades is a sophisticated example. Lord Vetinari legalized them as one of his first acts upon becoming Patrician, reasoning that a police force would have to work harder to reduce theft, while the thieves' guild would have to work less. The system works fairly well — a customer can be robbed in the safety and comfort of their own home at the start of the year and afterwards walk the streets without fear (or with less fear than usual, this being Ankh-Morpork). The Guild has little tolerance of unlicensed theft, and won't cause too much trouble to the city now that they've become respectable and Vetinari knows where they live, who their wives are, and where their kids go to school. The head of the Guild is even one of the most important members of the city council (including important nobles and guild leaders), and in Feet of Clay someone even speculates that the head of the Thieves Guild might be interested in being the next Patrician with the implication this is actually possible. In fact, when the Watch is in need of extra manpower he shows up to help. It existed in the first book, but as a much more standard fantasy version. Interestingly, in this book the concept of "inn-sewer-ants" is introduced, which Ankh-Morporkians take to mean "receive a great deal of money if you lose some property after paying money". Early books describe it as dabbling in various crimes, including assassination, but the later books' Thieves' Guild would never commit any killings. Killing of an unlicensed thief, possibly, but not murder for money, because the Assassins' Guild also exists and wouldn't look kindly on the Thieves' Guild trying to do their job. |
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The Elenium: Each major city seems to have its own head-of-the-underworld, and each of the bosses know and keep in contact with the other bosses, and they meet every so often at the central city of the continent. The organization is loose, but they exchange favors and services for each other; one aspect is "thieves' sanctuary" — a thief can go to another territory and ask to be kept safe. The local boss is entitled to refuse, but has to answer to the thief's own boss at the next meeting of the council. An unsatisfactory answer may result in a cut throat. Another is a wider fencing service — goods stolen in one city may be too hot to sell locally, so they ship them to another city where the local guild can fence the goods for them. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV has one that functions as law enforcement in the seedier dealings of Limsa Lominsa. After the player character elects to become a Rogue there, their quest line generally revolves around dealing with other bands or gangs caught breaking the 'code' that loosely unify the various factions under a common set of rules. It's gradually revealed how a proper group of rogues goes about keeping things in check that Limsa Lominsa's actual law enforcement can't. | |
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World of Warcraft: The city of Stormwind has SI:7, which is kinda like a rogue's guild, but pays its dues to the city and its rulers by acting as its spies and assassins. Ironforge has the Hidden Circle, which in contrast to SI:7 is more at odds with the law and is plotting a heist from King Magni Bronzebeard's strip-mining operations. The Shattered Hand clan in Orgrimmar has become an integral part of Thrall's Horde, acting as assassins and training aspiring rogues to ensure orc and troll safety. The Deathstalkers serve as the Forsaken's rogues' guild, also doubling as a Praetorian Guard for Varimathras and Sylvanas. Ravenholdt is a neutral guild that only takes in the best rogues, thieves and assassins into its fold. |
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Skate the Thief: The Ink fills this role, having a hand in all theft and extortion operations in Caribol, even fighting a Mob War in the past to insure their monopoly on crime. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Haley used to be a member of one. She was reinstated after some Aggressive Negotiations, but near-immediately turned around and gave a vicious resignation message in the form of murdering her nemesis and stealing her magic items. Turns out, an organization of criminals is going to be just an organized crime cartel with all the ugliness that that entails, and after her Character Development Haley wants nothing more to do with them. | |
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Below: The city of Eswell has a Thieves' Guild that encompasses a wide area, including surrounding villages. The four highwaymen who are roped into the quest are all members. So is the locked-up forger whose fake treasure map kindles the quest. | |
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Crusade: Dureena is a member of the Thieves Guild, who run pickpocketing, thievery, con jobs, and larceny, but nothing violent, nothing that will alert security. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has one. Unfortunately, they're a darker shade of gray and not as Robin Hood-esque as in past games. They've resorted to making threats, shaking down merchants, and even having people falsely imprisoned. Thankfully they still have the standard of not killing people, but it's mostly because it's bad for business ("A dead man can't pay...") and it only applies to targets (they don't mind you killing hired muscle). They're only a remnant of what they once were with influence only in Riften by the time of the game, but the player can participate in jobs that can help spread their influence to the other holds, allowing them to bribe guards and gain fences for stolen goods. Ultimately, though, in order to reestablish the Guild to its former glory, the player has to break the bad luck curse that's befallen the Guild by recovering the stolen Skeleton Key and restoring the Daedric Prince Nocturnal's favor to the Guild. | |
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Dark Lord of Derkholm, which is set in a world that's been forced to adopt all the Fantasyland cliches for the benefit of the tourists, obviously has a Thieves' Guild. Interestingly, though, it turns out to be an authentic institution that's been around since before the whole tourism thing started. | |
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Neverwinter Nights 2 gives you the option of siding either with or against the previously mentioned Shadow Thieves of Amn at about the midpoint of Act I. | |
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Warlock Series: The protagonist of Forerunner Foray, Ziantha, is a member of the Guild who has Psychic Powers. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins: You can perform a job for the Friends of Red Jenny, but it's not until Dragon Age: Inquisition that you find anything about them. They're made up of lower-class people with no central leadership with a goal of getting back at nobles that they've got a grudge against. They carry out everything from harmless but embarrassing pranks to theft to the occasional assassination. | |
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The Black Magician Trilogy has a fairly structured organisation with a strong sense of honor. An important plot element in the sequel is that someone is murdering many of the top thieves and causing the structure to break down. | |
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Mythica: There was one operating underneath Marek's home city hiding in the sewer tunnels, where they hoarded priceless ancient documents that prove vital to Marek saving the world. | |
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A Brother's Price: The thieves' guild is called the Sisterhood of the Night. The Whistlers, a family who had been common line soldiers until they were blacklisted after a sister's treason, bullied the Sisterhood into training them to be a whole team of thieves with soldier training. Another character is very surprised to hear the 'bullied' part, but it's apparently possible. | |
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Catseye (1961): Troy manages to avoid joining, but he sees a man who did on his first day on the job, and further involvements ensue. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In AD&D, specific settings took over issues that belonged to them, so The Complete Thief's Handbook provided a generic guide: this outlined the relationship with political, social and economical factors and expounded the variants of structure and internal policy for such guilds. Later editions tend to stay away from a pure "Thieves' Guild"; instead they have full-blown criminal organizations who dabble in more crimes and for whom fencing is only one facet of their business. Forgotten Realms: The Shadow Thieves of Amn, although later editions have them expand their business to a whole variety of crimes including smuggling and assassinations. An interesting variation occurs in a couple of game settings, including the city of Greyhawk in the World of Greyhawk and Port Blacksand, the City of Thieves from the Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks series. In both cases, the Thieves' Guilds are actively involved in the government of the cities they operate in and contribute to its daily life. While both guilds have their own internal feuds and divisions, certain social conventions exist that keep the Guilds' internal struggles from harming the city at large. In Greyhawk's case, a high-ranking member of the Guild is the Lord Mayor. Eberron: Sharn's four major criminal organizations are more like ethnic gangs, given the pulp-influenced Dungeon Punk setting. The Delver's Guide to Beast World has the Thieves' Army. Originally an actual Army of Thieves and Whores during the Invader War, General Vincent realised that his people were being forgotten again once the war was over, and decided to use the military training and regimen to ensure that they got the support they needed, whether anyone was going to fund it voluntarily or not. The Thieves' Army expects any criminal in a town they occupy to "join, leave, quit or die", and maintain popularity with the commoners by discouraging most violent crimes (and are genuinely completely opposed to slavery. The most violent crimes commited by the Army are against slavers). The Veterans' Union in Louvain is practically an official Thieves' Army headquarters. |
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Fallout had the Thieves' Circle, led by a man named Loxley who idolized Robin Hood and took his name (Robin of Loxley), even going so far as to fake a British accent. He gives the player a quest to steal a necklace from the head of the Water Merchants as initiation into the Guild, and if completed he rewards them with 3000 caps and an electronic lockpick. | |
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Sonic Riders: In the first game's backstory, the Babylonians were a race of aliens who crash landed on Earth. It was they who created the technology from which Extreme Gear evolved. The Babylonians also developed a reputation as thieves and robbers. Their crimes incurred the wrath of the gods, leading to their home Babylon Garden being buried near the Sand Ruins while the Babylonians were scattered across the world. | |
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Vacant Sky: The Blackguards are a form of this trope. Of course, they take this to a new level, incorporating piracy, pillaging, and necromancy. | |
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Errant Story: Lampshaded and subverted. The mercenary guilds in Farrel can work on either side of the law, according to the principle of supply and demand, as Jon explains. This give Sarine a marvelous opportunity to play Deadpan Snarker, which, of course, she puts to good use, only to have Ellis volley it right back to her. | |
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Neopets has had one since the early days of the site. Its most prominent appearance was in the Hannah and the Ice Caves plot, where they were the antagonistic side. Their second prominent appearance was in the War of the Obelisk plot, where they're one of six sides you are able to join. | |
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Fangbone!: The Shadowsteppers, who are based on the kinds of thieves Conan the Barbarian often encountered in his adventures. They're every bit as likely to help Fangbone protect Venomous Drool's toe as they are to try and take it from him. | |
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The Crimson Shadow: Montfort has one, though Oliver and Luthien don't join (the latter worries they might drive them out, though it never appears). It remains unclear if other thieves they meet are members. | |
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Forgotten Realms: The Shadow Thieves of Amn, although later editions have them expand their business to a whole variety of crimes including smuggling and assassinations. | |
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Tortall Universe: There's a thieves' guild (the Court of the Rogue) in more than one major city. While they do some pretty terrible things, they're regarded as a necessity for order, since they re-distribute wealth to the poor, and keep some degree of order on the thieves, murderers and prostitutes. | |
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The Afterward: The Thief's Court in Cadria controls thieving which occurs there. Four Thief Bosses run the Court, which other thieves answer to. Newcomers are indebted for training, and belong to the Thief Bosses until this is worked off (it's implied the debts are high enough this doesn't happen that frequently). Afterward, free thieves still must give the Bosses a cut of any gains though. The free thieves also lack the Bosses' protection, which means if caught they're on their own. Any thief who dared to testify against them when tried would be swiftly killed by the Bosses' order. | |
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: They are the most organized body in Fantasyland, with every city having branches that easily communicate to each other, but having independent hierarchies. All kinds of thieves except muggers are in their ranks. They all claim to hate violence, though nonetheless they're proficient fighters. The group is also organized just like a normal guild, with apprentices, journeymen, masters and a Guildmaster with a name like The Faceless Man or The Gentleman. Heroes will at some point meet with the Guildmaster after being led blindfolded to his lair. His face will be hidden, and he'll have them look after a young thief they've met in return for the Guild's aid. This thief will be a great member of the Tour, with suggestions that he is the Guildmaster's son. | |
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The Delver's Guide to Beast World has the Thieves' Army. Originally an actual Army of Thieves and Whores during the Invader War, General Vincent realised that his people were being forgotten again once the war was over, and decided to use the military training and regimen to ensure that they got the support they needed, whether anyone was going to fund it voluntarily or not. The Thieves' Army expects any criminal in a town they occupy to "join, leave, quit or die", and maintain popularity with the commoners by discouraging most violent crimes (and are genuinely completely opposed to slavery. The most violent crimes commited by the Army are against slavers). The Veterans' Union in Louvain is practically an official Thieves' Army headquarters. | |
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Kult: Heretic Kingdoms: Thieves in the city of Kyallisar are generally under the rule of a thief master. The authorities don't go after the thief master as strongly as they could, partly because the thief master generally keeps the worst parts of the criminal underworld suppressed better than the authorities could. When the protagonist arrives, there's a civil war between two people who want the post, and she can be tasked with ensuring the triumph of one candidate (the authorities don't care which) to stabilise things again. | |
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Hero Realms: Downplayed with the Guild. While a powerful faction of smugglers, rogues, and assassins, it doesn't control all criminal activity. The player could be an independent Thief, and the Necros cult pretty much still preys in the alleys and slums of the setting. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Arena: The Thieves' Guild are a non-joinable faction that provide opposition for some randomly generated quests. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: The Elder Scrolls: Arena: The Thieves' Guild are a non-joinable faction that provide opposition for some randomly generated quests. The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall: You can join them. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind has two — the Imperial Thieves Guild and the non-joinable, xenophobic, native Camonna Tong — and in fact, one of the main points of the Thieves Guild questline is its war against the Camonna Tong. Note that here, the Camonna Tong is equivalent to The Mafia, whereas the Thieves Guild has a mostly strict "no kill" policy, practices Honor Among Thieves, and even has some Robinhood-like traits. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has one. Official government policy is to deny its existence. Of course, this is probably a ploy of the Guild, considering the number of public officials who take bribes to look the other way. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has one. Unfortunately, they're a darker shade of gray and not as Robin Hood-esque as in past games. They've resorted to making threats, shaking down merchants, and even having people falsely imprisoned. Thankfully they still have the standard of not killing people, but it's mostly because it's bad for business ("A dead man can't pay...") and it only applies to targets (they don't mind you killing hired muscle). They're only a remnant of what they once were with influence only in Riften by the time of the game, but the player can participate in jobs that can help spread their influence to the other holds, allowing them to bribe guards and gain fences for stolen goods. Ultimately, though, in order to reestablish the Guild to its former glory, the player has to break the bad luck curse that's befallen the Guild by recovering the stolen Skeleton Key and restoring the Daedric Prince Nocturnal's favor to the Guild. |
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Little Hands, Big Attitude: The Guild, as it's called, is an extremely secretive and apparently international thief organization that took in Rouge when she was very little, supposedly to raise her - in reality they throw her under the bus more often than not, up to and abandoning her. They somehow know about Project Shadow and order Rouge to find it and steal it; until it occurs to them that having a secret superweapon that they know nothing about in their base may not be the best idea. The abandon that base and Rouge, and they're not heard from again. | |
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Rocky and Bullwinkle: Boris Badenov is a card-carrying member of Local 12 of the Villains, Thieves and Scoundrels Union. | |
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The Deed of Paksenarrion has a thieves' guild; the guild, and one particular member of it, play significant roles in the climactic plot sequence. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: This was extended to The Syndicate and its involvement in the Las Vegas gambling scene during Peter David's run. At one point, the Hulk gets a job as a bouncer for Michael Berengetti, a wiseguy who blends his illegal dealings with his legitimate casino operations. When rival wiseguy Tony Gold wants to set up shop in Vegas, Berengetti orders him out of town, alluding to the "understanding" he and the other local casino bosses have with the authorities. So long as Berengetti and the other bosses only act within certain unwritten boundaries, the authorities leave them alone. In turn, Berengetti and the other bosses also get to take steps to "protect" their local market from outside competitors like Gold. | |
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind has two — the Imperial Thieves Guild and the non-joinable, xenophobic, native Camonna Tong — and in fact, one of the main points of the Thieves Guild questline is its war against the Camonna Tong. Note that here, the Camonna Tong is equivalent to The Mafia, whereas the Thieves Guild has a mostly strict "no kill" policy, practices Honor Among Thieves, and even has some Robinhood-like traits. | |
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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: One of the anti-Borgia factions in Rome is a Thieves Guild that is run by the mysterious master thief who's also an Assassin La Volpe ("The Fox"). Ezio helps Volpe establish a proper guildhall disguised as an inn and can undertake missions for them to help undermine a rival Borgia-backed Thieves Guild called the Cento Occhi. | |
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Black Moon Chronicles: Pile-ou-face the elf was sold to the master of a thieves' and assassins' guild as a young boy and brought up in their trade. He was quickly hated by the other boys both for being a non-human and his talent at stealing thanks to being an elf arousing their jealousy. As an adult Pilou eventually sells out the entire guild to get revenge on the master for arranging the death of a friendly thief who had been a father figure to him. | |
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Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser: There's a Thieves' Guild in the city of Lankhmar. This is certainly the Trope Namer and probably the Trope Maker, although borderline examples occur earlier. | |
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Diablo: The rogues aren't just members of a thieves' guild, they're apparently members of a thieves' religious monastic order. They're also not thieves... | |
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The Wire: Beginning in season 3, Baltimore's drug gangs band together to form the New Day Co-Op, which functions as a means of peacekeeping between crews. | |
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Villains by Necessity: Arcie was once guildmaster of one, and most cities apparently had them, although some only had competing independent gangs. | |
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Circle of Magic: There are organized street gangs, like the one that raised Briar, but not an organized guild. Mostly they steal and get in wars with each other. The closest thing to a guild is in the city that Briar grew up as a child, where the Thief-Lord had several gangs stealing for him. | |
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In Gothic II, the Thieves' Guild is an Oddly Small Organization that dwells in an Absurdly-Spacious Sewer. Lares serves as something of a One-Man Thieves' Guild in Gothic III. | |
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Medieval II: Total War: Spies and assassins are hired from taverns and inns, but you can enhance their training by building a Thieves' Guild, which becomes available if you repeatedly hire assassins and spies from that settlement. Interestingly, the game notes that these Guilds are actually built and sanctioned by your government to train agents in not only bypassing but also improving security. As a result, any town with a Thieves' Guild in it becomes notably harder to infiltrate with assassins or spies. | |
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Wizards & Warriors 3: Kuros: Visions of Power: Joining the Thieves' Guild is a requirement. To gain the guild's abilities, Kuros is required to recover a statue and pass the guild's trial. There are three levels of membership, each of which has a different ability. Level 1 gives Kuros a dagger similar to his shortsword Knight form, but allows him to move faster. Level 2 gives a crowbar, which is the same combat-wise, but bestows even faster moving speed and allows Kuros to enter certain windows. Level 3 gives a Skeleton Key, which has no offensive capabilities whatsoever, but is the fastest class in the game and can open every door and window without the need to buy keys. | |
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Ragnarok Online: Guilds for thieves, assassins, and rogues all exist for job-changing purposes, although you don't really see the NPCs working together in large numbers. Hilariously, said members are alarmed when being conversed with Knight/Crusader or Priest/Monk player character. | |
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Trials of Mana has the Nevarl Thieves' Guild, a band of formerly good-natured thieves who suddenly desire to become a nation-conquering kingdom, thanks to the guild's leader and most other members being brainwashed by one of the villains, Belladonna. | |
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Assassin's Creed II: Ezio has to team up with the Thieves' Guild of Venice. Turns out, their leader, Antonio, is an Assassin himself. | |
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Ravensword: Shadowlands: There's a hidden one working in secret within the main town. One quest requires you to locate it and destroy it. | |
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The Rigel Black Chronicles has the Court of the Rogue, inspired by its source material, in the Lower Alleys. It's primarily about providing a government for those who don't trust the Ministry, but training and regulating pickpockets, and other illegal activity like free-duelling tournaments, does come under its purview. The Ministry doesn't sanction it, but also doesn't want to go to the trouble of doing anything about it, preferring to ignore the Lower Alleys' existence. | |
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Quest for Glory considers a Thieves' Guild a home away from home for Thieves on the go. Weird Trade Union jokes surround them, and it's often part of the Thief player character's mission to track down their local Guild, or at least find those friendly to thieves. There are three guilds to be found: two active ones in Spielburg and Silmaria, and an abandoned one in Mordavia. There's technically one in Shapier, but it doesn't have a guild hall or hidden base, being more loosely knit to avoid scrutiny. | |
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Thief: The Dark Project: Thief Gold has one. Ironically, they are the title thief's enemies; he works alone, doesn't like answering to authority, and they tried to kill him a few times. Naturally, he steals from them (while cleverly making it look like two high ranking officials within the organization stole from each other to cover his tracks). | |
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John Wick: The High Table is a mysterious council that consists of 12 criminal masterminds who are in-control of the criminal element that spans several continents, if not the entire world. Implied to have been descended from The Hashshashin, all mob-lords, assassins, career criminals and anyone associated with the Continental Hotel chain answers to them and are duly punished without mercy if they violate the Honor Among Thieves code they live by or in anyway show defiance to them. | |
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Ironclaw has the Invisible Guild. In the adventure module The Wolves of Winter one of the two feuding lords is secretly allied with the Guild, and the player characters can alert the Duke's agents of that. | |
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Dragon Age II: Kirkwall's major Thieves Guild is The Coterie. During their first year in Kirkwall, Hawke can work for either The Red Iron Mercenaries or Athenril's Smugglers, depending on their choices. Other criminal gangs encountered are the Carta, the Raiders of the Waking Sea, Guard Pretenders, Redwater Teeth, Sharp's Highwaymen, Invisible Sisters, Dog Lords, the Undercuts, Slave Hunters, Followers of She, Crimson Bloodragers, most of whom Hawke will eradicate for the Friends of Red Jenny. Yeah, Kirkwall is that kind of town! | |
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Snow By Night: Jassart and Blaise have formed their own little rook guild that has wards, people who pay the rooks so they can keep from getting robbed. One of the reasons the two are going after the Phantom Thief is because the culprit has stolen from their ward, Claudine, as well as the wards of other guilds. | |
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Queen Millennia: Millennial Thieves, officially known as The Secret Society of Millennial Robbers and Bandits, according Yayoi do exactly as the title implies, though their real objective is to free Earth from La-Metal. | |
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The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall: You can join them. | |
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Baldur's Gate has one both in Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn, in the first there is even a shout-out to Fritz Leiber as the code word to let <CHARNAME> inside is "Fafhrd". Two rival Thieves Guilds, one staffed by cutthroat thieves, the other by vampires, play a prominent role in the second game. | |
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Gor: There's a Caste of Thieves in the city-state of Port Kar. | |
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Majesty has the Rogue's Guild, which is a single organized group of "Rogues" for hire by the local crown (the player character). The Rogues essentially work as another type of hero, very cheap to hire, and easily motivated by rewards and bounties, but quick to flee from trouble. They tend to steal from the locals and marketplaces, which doesn’t actually hurt the crown much because the Rogues Guild pays taxes as well. If the crown/player chooses, they can “extort� the guild for money in a pinch – the Rogues will break into the kingdom’s buildings and quickly steal all the taxable income, but keep a cut of roughly a third for themselves. This takes much less time than the usual process of using Tax Collectors, but nets less money in the process. | |
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Chronicles of the Kencyrath: The first book, God Stalk, features a city and Thieves' Guild based quite admittedly on Lankhmar. The thieves fall into the ranks of apprentices, journeymen, and masters, with the guild ruled by a guild lord known as the sirdan. Among the masters, there are "landed masters" and "landless masters" — the landed masters are assigned districts of the city as their territories, and only they can vote in guild matters or train apprentices. There are also the Five Courts, where stolen goods are taken. There, a small fee known as the "guild duty" is levied. The city's laws about theft are kind of weird, and guild members are considered respectable citizens unless they get caught in possession of a stolen item, at which point they face penalties ranging from fines to the loss of a finger, hand, or the whole of one's skin. | |
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Dragonlance: The city of Palanthas has a Thieves' Guild, though this is noted to be unusual. The Palanthians actually take a sort of perverse pride in it, as they feel their guild thieves are higher class than thieves in other cities that don't have guilds. | |
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Thieves of the Wood: Iron Simon's criminal gang are above the law because they round up and enslave homeless people to build the Mayor's roads. | |
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Assassin's Creed: Assassin's Creed II: Ezio has to team up with the Thieves' Guild of Venice. Turns out, their leader, Antonio, is an Assassin himself. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: One of the anti-Borgia factions in Rome is a Thieves Guild that is run by the mysterious master thief who's also an Assassin La Volpe ("The Fox"). Ezio helps Volpe establish a proper guildhall disguised as an inn and can undertake missions for them to help undermine a rival Borgia-backed Thieves Guild called the Cento Occhi. |
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Crusader Kings II: A thieves' guild may form in one of your provinces if you have a poor steward or a high budget deficit. Their presence decreases your income. | |
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An interesting variation occurs in a couple of game settings, including the city of Greyhawk in the World of Greyhawk and Port Blacksand, the City of Thieves from the Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks series. In both cases, the Thieves' Guilds are actively involved in the government of the cities they operate in and contribute to its daily life. While both guilds have their own internal feuds and divisions, certain social conventions exist that keep the Guilds' internal struggles from harming the city at large. In Greyhawk's case, a high-ranking member of the Guild is the Lord Mayor. | |
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