Hold the front
An Army defender uses armour and shield training. A Waterpriest channels with a free hand behind a shield. A Gaesati can take a form suited to the fight.
Read about the Waterpriests
Guilds of Icesus
Your guild decides how you fight and what you learn.
Each one has its own halls, teachers and history.
About guilds
Some guilds are armies or priesthoods, and one is a refuge for outcasts.
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 decides most of how your character plays: how you fight, what you bring to a party and what you spend your time learning. Specialisations and secondary studies let you vary that.
Each guild’s page covers its history, what its abilities do and how it fights.
The 17 guilds
Browse them by story, or filter by the role you want in a party.
Steel & discipline
Soldiers, holy knights and unarmed monks.
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Weapon combat · Defence
Army
Train to hold the line for the people behind you. Choose agile weapon work or armoured endurance.
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Elemental knighthood · Defence
Templars
Holy knights who fight with weapons and elemental magic, in an order that has outlived its war.
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Martial arts · Prepared runes
Monks
Unarmed fighters who meditate before battle. Runes from the Jewel of Temperance add to their attack sequences.
The wild paths
Rangers, the nomad Wilders and the shapeshifting Gaesati.
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Bow & blade · Wilderness
Rangers
Hunters and wardens of the wild who fight with bow, blades and nature magic.
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Axe combat · Totem rites
Wilders
Nomads from the frozen wastes: fierce axe fighters who hunt, camp and keep totems.
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Animal forms · Melee
Gaesati
Followers of Walmor who learn to become animals and trees, and to fight in those forms.
The four living gods
One priesthood for each of the four living gods.
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Healing · Air magic
Airpriests
Pthuule’s priests heal and cure their companions, and can choke an enemy with Air.
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Spear combat · Sacred fire
Firepriests
Priests of Zrammas who prepare fire on an enemy and set it off with a spear thrust.
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Channeling · Magical defence
Waterpriests
Armoured priests of Albila who hold the front behind a shield and channel mana through their free hand.
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Undead servants · Earth magic
Earthpriests
Priests of Dhubr who shape the earth, raise the dead and keep an undead servant fighting beside them.
The hands that build
Miners, smiths, carpenters and builders.
No guilds match that combination.
Try another name, ability or role.
What each guild does in a party
A party needs someone to take the hits, someone to deal damage and someone to keep everyone going. The guilds overlap in these roles, and your training and equipment decide which part you play.
Combat and partiesPicking a first guild
The character builder offers a guided selection of starting professions. A guild’s teachers explain its current requirements.
Later, reincarnation lets you try a different race and guild while retaining earned experience.
Play Icesus
Make a character
and try a guild.
Pick a race and a first profession, then meet your guild’s teachers in the game.