Small Lodge study groups, heraldry, location check-ins, and assessed shared work.
Guilds are small study groups within one Lodge in GSW Mobile. An active Guild Charters benefit and Patron Tier 5 are required for formation and new membership. Each Guild has a maximum of five members, including its Guildmaster; a person may belong to only one Guild.
Membership and heraldry
Guild members must be approved members of the same Lodge and must not hold a Faculty role. A Guild name must be distinct from the names of other active Guilds in that Lodge.
The Guildmaster chooses the Guild's name, notice, and heraldry, invites or removes members, and may transfer the Guildmaster role to another member. A Guildmaster must transfer the role before leaving a Guild that still has other members. The last member's departure closes the Guild.
If Guild Charters pauses, existing membership is retained. Members can still leave, decline an invitation, or transfer the Guildmaster role. New membership, invitations, and changes to the Guild's design wait until the benefit is active again.
Opening and attending a Guild Tower
A Guild Tower is a temporary shared study place recorded in GSW Mobile. The Guildmaster may place or close it. A Guild can have one active Tower at a time, lasting up to two hours. Opening a Guild Tower does not spend a Tower Charge.
A member may check in to their own Guild's Tower when their reported location is within 200 metres of it and the location reading is accurate to within 200 metres. A check-in must remain current: the visible app refreshes presence, including while My Studies is open, and a check-in expires after two minutes without refresh.
The Tower therefore records present shared study. Opening a Tower or checking in does not by itself award a merit.
The shared-study merit
An eligible response submitted through GSW Mobile can earn one additional Lodge merit when at least two current members of the same Guild, including the author, have current check-ins at the Guild's Tower at submission.
The response must then receive the required assessment: an ordinary course essay must pass at 80% to 100%, or a challenge response must be accepted. Final examinations are excluded. The additional merit may be awarded once per qualifying answer.
Eligibility is recorded when the response is submitted. Later changes to the roster or Patronage benefit do not erase eligibility already recorded for that submission. Faculty assessment of the work remains necessary.
Guild Tower merits are separate from Scholarly Distinction, which can award a weekly Tower Charge, and from the Lodge Champion Boon. Consult Lodge Patronage and Perk Points for the active benefit and pause rules.