The Brewmasters' Guild

An overview of the membership process, hierarchy, and duties
The Apprenticeship program is a time-honored tradition used to select and train new and worthy members of the guild. Quarterly lists are distributed among all the card-carrying members of the guild detailing all new members that are seeking a mentor in order to gain full membership. After a 6 week matching process, all initiates that don’t find a mentor get expelled from the guild. All matched initiates are paired up with a mentor. Mentorship selections are made based on rank in the guild. Most senior ranks get to select first, if they choose to, from the candidate pool, and so on down. Grand Masters (only the 5 members carry this title) go first even though they have not selected an apprentice in nearly 100 years. The Masters consist of the 69 most skilled and committed brewers in the guild (often the richest and most well connected too). There are 18 Headmasters that are the leaders of the Regional Brewmaster Temples. These are the career guild masters that are more interested in the guild bureaucracy than making booze. The remaining Masters are simply the best brewers in all the realm. Most of their apprentice selections are predetermined political favors. Having a Master mentor you holds significant clout. Very few Masters have ever raised to that rank without themselves being mentored by a previous Master. Below the Master rank is: Senior, Accomplished, Journeyman, Novice, and Apprentice. Novice Brewers are not permitted to select an Apprentice. -back to NPCs