It always gets me how the concept of a "thieves' guild" is, like, an obvious *joke* about how depraved and lawless a world this is - Cervantes seems to have invented the concept as a satire - but now it's just a default worldbuilding thing everyone acceptshttps://twitter.com/sargoth/status/1259339704253775873 …
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When they've got the class of trainees out in the field showing them how to mug people
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And the Assassins Guild
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In "Ill Met In Lankhmar," Leiber makes the Thieves Guild basically an organized crime operation.
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I'm not well-read enough in fantasy literature to say, "Isn't this the case with every fantasy trope?", but I like to imagine that it's true.
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Pratchett certainly took a great deal of joy ripping the hell out of fantasy tropes.
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I was going to say the same thing.
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