The Guilds of Icesus
Enter an old order. Learn its secrets.
Become someone your companions depend on.
More than a fighting style
An army defending its city. A priesthood keeping faith. Outcasts who found power in one another.
Guilds are institutions in the world of Icesus. They have teachers and meeting places, old loyalties and rivalries, and their own ideas about how a person should live. The skills they teach grow out of those beliefs.
Your main guild shapes the heart of your character: how you fight, what you can offer a party, and what you spend your time learning. Specialisations and secondary studies let you make that path your own.
Explore the stories first. Each guild’s page then shows what its abilities do, how they work together, and the decisions you make in a fight.
Choose a tradition
Follow a story that speaks to you, or explore the kind of contribution you want to make.
The barracks, the temple and the monastery teach different answers to the same danger.
Weapon combat · Defence
Train for the moment another person needs you to stand firm. Choose agile weapon work or armoured endurance.
Elemental knighthood · Defence
Elemental knights with martial training, sacred bonds and an uneasy place in a changing world. Faith must prove itself in service.
Martial arts · Prepared runes
Unarmed fighters whose concentration becomes motion. The Jewel of Temperance and prepared runes deepen every practiced sequence.
Those who read the forest, carry their homes, or learn to wear another form.
Bow & blade · Wilderness
A hunter’s eye, a fighter’s hands and a life spent learning the wilderness. Fight with bow, blades and nature’s magic.
Axe combat · Totem rites
Survivors of the frozen wastes, carrying their homes and traditions. Fierce axe fighting meets hunting, camps and totem rites.
Animal forms · Melee
Followers of Walmor who learn to become animals and trees. Each form offers a different way to face the world.
One elemental world. Four priesthoods with very different duties and powers.
Healing · Air magic
Pthuule’s servants restore companions and command the breath that sustains them. Mercy and the fury of Air share one calling.
Spear combat · Sacred fire
Priests of Zrammas join sacred flame to spear combat. Carefully prepared embers become devastating combinations at the moment of a strike.
Channeling · Magical defence
Albila’s armoured channelers preserve an ancient magical art. A shield, a free hand and control of mana make a distinctive defender.
Undead servants · Earth magic
Servants of Dhubr shape the earth and command the dead. Preparing and sustaining an undead companion is central to their art.
The armour on a companion and the roof over a village both began with someone’s work.
Try another name, ability or role.
A place in the fight
A party needs more than damage. Someone must withstand pressure, someone must exploit an opening, and someone must keep the expedition going. Guilds overlap in these roles; your training and equipment shape the part you play.
Your first calling
The character builder offers a guided selection of starting professions. This guide covers all 17 main guilds, including paths whose entry and training need more planning. A guild’s teachers explain its current requirements.
Abilities develop through training. The techniques shown here describe a guild’s wider repertoire, rather than everything a new initiate can do immediately. Read the progression section on a guild’s page before setting out.
Later, reincarnation lets you try a different race and guild while retaining earned experience. A first calling can be the beginning of a much longer story.
A place in the valley
Choose a race and a first profession. Meet your teachers, learn your craft, and find the companions who will come to rely on it.
Icesus is a persistent text RPG. The paintings illustrate its world; you play through words.
