An organization or group of organizations found in all cities and most fair-sized towns of Lirith Kai. The Guild claims that it organizes the beggars, casual laborers, and outcastes in a given area and prevents them making a nuisance of themselves while insuring that each receives at least enough to live on. It is assumed by many that the Beggars' Guild is merely a polite name for a group of thieves, muggers, and the like, a few of whom moonlight as literal beggars to give it an appearance of honesty; it is also assumed by these people that there is only one Beggars' Guild in the country, and it simply has branches all over. Careful research has indicated that in fact the Beggars' Guilds of the different cities and towns are autonomous, though they are aware of and friendly to each other (usually). While some may be the organization of muggers and thieves suggested above, and others composed purely of genuine beggars, most are somewhere in the middle ground; the degree of overall honesty represented by any particular Guild is usually an extension of the honesty of the person or people who controls the Guild in question. Honest beggars or not, the Beggars' Guild has an on-going love/hate relationship with the Thieves' Guild: they are rivals for control of their cities' underworld (usually) but also allies at need.

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