Over the past two-hundred years, the Artisan's Union has been the largest and most influential Merchant Fraternity in Wilderland (Rhovanion). Without going over the entire How to Get a Shop, it should be known that the AU, based in Laketown, serves as the organizing and regulatory body for commerce for the settlements of Wilderland. This document, then, is an overview of the Licensing requirements for Freemen of the Wilderland to obtain the blessing of the AU and of their respective settlement's Master.
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Please be aware that staff reserve the right to change, alter, and modify these requirements at any time. For many Licenses there may be License-specific crafts that are only accessible with said License but not necessarily clan-only or 'patented' by any particular License but more so regulated for making by the Artisan Union. This is a helpful hand to Stall Peddler Licenses that have very limited craftsets for their License.
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Along with a License often comes a Loan. Loans have a common term of 120% with a 3 year term. Loans for Peddler's Licenses require a minimum 500cp down. Loans for Freemen's Licences require a minimum 2000cp down. Loans are not available for Skald Licenses or Guild Memberships. At the discretion of the Usury minimum money-down-payments for loans may be higher than stipulated here. If regular payments are not made, your License can be revoked and your stall or shop forfeit with all of its contents inside now property of the Usury.
As always, heirs or seconds to a license MUST be declared publicly, as in by way of City Hall or a document written up by a Litigant, before the death of the owner of the loan or license. Debts pass on to the next owner.
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Please note that Skald Guild membership is not available to characters in Utterby and there may be interesting conflict should a Guildmember Guildsmen of the Skald Guild visit the lumbertown.
Peddler's License
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