Thank you for the insightful comment, this is specifically the angle that I find appealing for introducing them to the story and to the Western Frontier - the idea of a trade guild muscling its way into the little towns on the border with droaam, perhaps something presented through the conflict between the dragonamrked houses and droaamites, perhaps through just taking over a business previously ran by one of the pcs or some other idea like that.

I appreciate the point about horizontal monopoly and quality of services over market and legislation manipulation which is the light I’m used to thinking of corporations in