<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#4da6ff">“It is a very large organization, and this is me giving you the most extreme bare bones explanation of it. There are all sorts of nuances and backroom deals that happen between and even within the branches, which take years to learn and even longer to master.” <span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ccff">He motioned to the three symbols above his head and they all split up into three copies of themselves, a circle of those nine symbols moving to rest over the table. A tenth symbol, the Dimir spider that was engraved on the Workroom door, sat centered on but above the rest of it.</span> “Each branch is run by seven Masters, with other people going down the line, so on and so forth, until you hit every member of dimir and where they are in the pecking order. Even a mage that has attained the Master rank may not be a Master in Dimir, if they haven’t done enough or they have a spotty record. Of those twenty-one Masters, nine are selected, three from each branch, to sit on the Council of Nine. They are the advisers to the Guildleader, as well as being the arbiters of inter-branch disputes.”</span>