Excommunication

Excommunication is the process of removal from the Guild. When a Hopeful enters the Guild for the first time, he or she has a stint placed in their mind, marking the very first moment of their acceptance into the organization. This stint acts as a placeholder for the new hopeful in the event training cannot be completed or excommunication needs to be done.

The person will be taken to an Arch Mystic, who will use magic to remove all memories from the guilty party. Memory is removed from them all the way to the moment they first received their stint. This could be several years of memory erased. There have been cases in which an old veteran of the Guild was excommunicated and lost many years. The threat of excommunication keeps many of the Guildsmen in check. The only crime the Guild punishes by death is murder, or joining the Bloodguild.