#firemind's foresight

There are four primary ways to join Izzet League:

Fill in application form at League’s Recruitment Office and start off almost immediately as one of League’s valiant Attendants. My best advice for those pursuing this path is former motto of Izzet Observation Corps: Die Trying!

Be spotted by one of our Guild Trade and Patent Integrity Monitors. Officially and legally they are there to detect and sue anyone who infringes on one of My Guild’s countless patents. But unofficially it’s not infringement if you are one of us, so they double as recruitment agents. My best advice for those pursuing this path: May Audacity be Your Guide!

Anyone who can solve the unsolvable riddles concealed in the Cluestones of My Guild are automatically sent an invitational letter to my Guild. If that’s your bet my advice to you is: Common Sense Is Nothing But Bias.

Vedalken Blastseeker Yakow Eteroglan the Luminous, proposed that condensed and purified aether could be used as viable alternative fuel source to elemental-, spirit-, and muscle-powered solutions. His distillery imploded last Seleni, earning him highest body count in past 3 years, several fortunes worth of equipment and infrastructure damage, as well as several posthumous charges by other Guilds. 

Dear “Lasav,” unlike you I have a (mostly) positive public image, and you may or may not know this, but public images take lot of hard work and effort to upkeep and maintain. If I would attack Sunhome I would be written down into channels of history as bigger warmonger than that pompous ginger! And if I arranged an “accident,” I would be known as more incompetent than, well… Your Predecessor.

…Besides all that, the Living Guildpact specifically forbid me from declaring wars or performing “impromptu urban renovations” without consulting him first.

((I appreciate it.))

They let themselves be rode on? That’s just embarrassing. And are dependent on other beings? Vulgar. 

Firemind's Foresight

By me, no, other Guildmaster who’ve never trusted me, and neither would have I ever trusted anyone who’d want to become the new Guildpact. I planned to have perfectly designed and seemingly unbiased elemental artificial intelligence run the Transguild interaction, slowly easing the other Guilds into dropping their guards down and then letting Izzet League operate on more lax regulations.It was perfect! They would have never seen it coming!

I am afraid it wasn’t matter of what I didn’t do but what I could have done at that point. I learned about Azorius Senate’s decision to overrule original Guildpact only when I arrived to my safe house location after tactical retreat from a fight with Nephilim (during the whole incident that spawned Rubbenbelt). Several months later Karlov heiress tried to establish non-magical peace treaty which lasted exactly as long as such venture could have last. (That is as soon as it became more beneficial to stop pretending to be on board with this faux-Guildpact.)