Factions

The Drift has been home to various political factions at different points in time.

Pre-War Politics of the Charted Drift

At the time of the Stationary Traveller’s departure from Auremelion, the known Drift was a mostly lawless place not under meaningful control by any of the factions inhabiting it.

The Guild

The Most Venerable and Esteemed Guild of Seam-Walkers, usually known simply as the Guild, was an institution established and expanded by seam-walkers which controlled a network of trade routes in the known Drift and took upon itself the responsibility of maintaining stability in the multiverse. It was by this time arguably the most powerful faction in the Drift, possessing dozens of colonised realities administered from the Guild’s opulent driftstation headquarters, the Supreme Axis.

As an ancient and storied organisation possessing immense wealth and influence throughout the multiverse, the Guild was known for its imperious, highly conservative nature and complicated bureaucracy. The seam-walking laws it promulgated were enforced by a sizeable fleet of heavily armed seamships carrying the formidable ranks of the Guild Marines, highly trained and precisely drilled seam-walkers who specialised in tracking down those who violated the Guild’s dictates and administering severe punishment.

The Cloud Archipelago

A huge station built around a cluster of silicate rubble reclaimed from collapsing realities.