>>95919378
The Guild is fine when it's a mortal organization that only exists because it manages to thread the line between the Lunars and the Terrestrials, where the Terrestrials directly controlled the Blessed Isle, the Lunars controlled tribes near the edge of the Wyld, and somewhere in the grey zones between the Guild operated and functioned as a sort of middleman operating under the radar. Terrestrials are weak enough that a mortal-ran Guild is still somewhat feasible, while Lunars had little interest in menial matters of business so they just didn't care to interfere too much.

Which is also why they're pretty much fucked in every canon with the return of the Solaroids, since they actually do have an interest in business and they're popping up everywhere to claim territory. The Guild is doomed to either be annexed into a Solaroid's operations or, more likely, just split apart entirely as it's dismantled.

What never made sense was the idea of the Guild as this organization of Machiavellian geniuses outwitting exalts.