Cellarers' & Plumbers' Guild

The Cellarers and Plumbers guild dug building foundations and maintained Waterdeep's sewer system.

Activities
The guild was employed to dig foundations and maintain the city's sewer system. They used secret recipes to perform their maintenance duties and ordered their materials from others rather than making them themselves. Although they didn't in the past, the Cellarers and Plumbers then had to call the Loyal Order of Street Laborers to fill in any holes that they had dug.

Tactics
Frequently, the guild would dig up valuables and corpses during their excavations. They were required to inform the owner of the property beneath which the object(s) were found but commonly, they did not bother to do so unless being directly observed by said owner. Rumors were rife that the guild created nonfunctional pipelines in the sewers in which they could hide these things.

Base of Operations
The Old Guildhall was located on Gaustus Street in the Trades Ward.

Relationships
Members of the The Carpenters', Roofers', and Plaisterers' Guild were seen as "thick-fingered clods" by the Cellarers and Plumbers but they reserved the majority of their derision for the Loyal Order of Street Laborers, whose formation took profitable work away from the Cellarers and Plumbers.

History
During the Time of Troubles, a large group of Cellarers were lost in the city's sewers. Unbeknownst to all, they had been transformed into Curst. In 1367 DR, many Cellarers, including the guildmaster, began to be enslaved by the Savants of the Dark Tide.

Members
Most members of the guild were humans, gnomes or halflings. In spite of their superior skill working with rock, there were very few dwarven members of the guild due to discrimination by the other races in the guild.

Members had to pay five gold pieces to join and guild dues of seven silver pieces per month. In exchange, they were paid two gold pieces per job per day, all of their materials were also paid for and teams were given a ten gold piece stipend for food an drink per day, making them the best paid service guild in the city.

Leadership
In 1374 DR, the guildmaster had been Master Plumber Hilithiimm Turnstone for many years and he planned to turn leadership over to his son Jhalossan when he retired. As of 1479 DR the guild was headed by Malaerigo Harsard, the father of the Blackstaff heir Laraelra Harsard.