Guild of Merchants and Traders
(created in The Colour of Magic)
- Motto: VILIS AD BIS PRETII ("Cheap At Twice The Price")
- Headed by Antimony Parker in Going Postal; however, they seem to have a new head every year.
- Its main function is to protect its members from being robbed, which had become their principal occupation in recent years. They also serve as the advertisers of the civic charms of Ankh-Morpork to potential tourists. They hire gangs of burly men to patiently describe to outsiders that Ankh-Morpork is in fact clean, safe and lovely place to live.
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