So the first clan sourcebooks mentioned a group called the free guilds, which appeared to be lower caste clansmen who operated independently of any particular clan and had enough resources to be a significant entity (with various clans contracting with them to supply ships for the invasion for example)
These free guilds haven't been mentioned since Warriors of Kerensky, and even that book only repeated the tiny amount of info that was stated in the first clan books, however given the events of the wars of reaving, one would imagine such an independent entity in the homeworlds would have been something of a significant factor, or at the very least worth a mention or two.
So should the free guilds be considered quietly dropped from the universe, (maybe Fotch was talking out his ass again) or do they actually exist?
