guild

But, there was no magical guild which encompassed them.

That really has nothing to do with engineers or some magical guild though.

Top guilds will often have enough players to fill three or more raid groups in order to have enough prepared players for the "main raid.

A raiding guild for 40 players is typically composed of no less than 60-70 regular players to deal with precisely this problem.

"I reject and oppose this monopoly that was never for the creators, but always for the distributors: a guild whose time is up and obsolete, and which has no business trampling on our civil liberties.

Some newbies would rebel, against the elders, but only a few lucky ones actually manage to contribute anything useful, albeit this drive of ambition, trial, and error is often what causes major advancements for the whole guild, akin to the evolution process.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.