The Process Guild
The Process Guild is the institutional organization that handles licensing and represents the interests of the various regular butchers, sorters, refiners, and others who receive raw Tarrasque viscera wholesale (from the God-Butchers and Marrow Miners) and process it into components for later commercial resale to the other dominant professional associations (the Sage’s Council and Blood Merchants). The various members of the Process Guild are the second link in the supply chain connecting the Tarrasque to the citizens and visitors of the city of Salt in Wounds. The general flow functions something like God-Butchers and Marrow Miners → Process Guild → Blood Merchants and Sage’s Council → everyone else. Raw viscera extracted from the Tarrasque by God-Butchers is typically too large to be suitable for individual resale and often unsorted (comprised of numerous tissue types, dog-sized pseudo-organs which litter the Tarrasque’s flesh, varying cuts of meat, neural ganglion, epidermis and so on) which by needs must be dissected into clearly labeled divisions. The employees and owner-operators of the various factories and workshops comprising the Process Guild tend to be working class to lower-middle class. Barriers to licensing are relatively low encouraging competition and innovation amongst guild members while also generally preventing massive fortunes from being made, putting pressure on the Process Guild members to cut corners and potentially seek “extra-legal” options (in contrast to the registered Blood Merchants that operate in a more oligarchical fashion). An extremely common crime is Process Guild shops selling directly to the public at large. Individuals who are employed under their aegis (often under terrible working conditions) have an exceedingly high rate of mutations and other health problems much more so than God-Butchers though not to the same degree as Marrow Miners.
NOTABLE MEMBERS OF THE PROCESS GUILD
Process Guild Chairman: Rodirique Algiheel is a 72-year-old halfling engaged in a long term project to improve the safety and reduce the criminality of the guild. However, his initiatives to institute enhanced licensing and inspection requirements have been facing institutional resistance, and he is constantly on the lookout for special operatives to arrange buys and conduct covert examinations.
Render Shop Owner and Chef: Parash Feru is a former acrobat working out of the Tail Stones, known for his excellent jerky (which he’s licensed to sell the public directly).
Rander Shop Owner: Fog Over Water is an orange-haired catfolk with an amputated left leg known to move his cart’s location from week to week and work extremely fast.