Thieves Guild - what does it do?

[Biggus Diccus]

No description in the manual or in the in-game building browser what their actual effects are. Anyone know?

[therother]

It gives a boost to spy recruitment. If you train a spy there, you get an extra trait (in addition to the NaturalSpySkill trait) bestowing the boost. I imagine the boost is bigger for the Master and Headquarters buildings (2/3?), although I haven't got them yet, so I don't know for sure.

I couldn't find any info on the Guilds either until I looked at the Planner chart you get in the Collector Edition, which has a nice rundown of all the Guilds.

[Quillan]

It tells you in the description of the Merchant's Guild that it makes any merchant trained in that city more likely to be highly skilled and educated. I trained a spy where I had a Thieves Guild, and this was the result.

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