The Adventurer's Guild is an Irynian organization that connects freelance employees with part-time work. In the period before centralized governments and fully-urbanized settlements, freelance mercenaries ("adventurers") were the primary providers of security and warfare. In places like Septeiven without competent law enforcement agencies, adventuring is still a common and valuable profession. However, in Iryna, the City Guard (and, formerly, Iryna PD) are the primary means of combatting criminal activity and maintaining public safety. However, because of their continued cultural importance, adventuring as a profession was not eliminated by the advent of organized law enforcement. Instead, adventurers perform a wider variety of freelance work, most often acting as private investigators or event security. Adventurers typically are paid per job, not per hour or per day. They receive a small percent of their pay up front, and the rest after successful completion of the job. Pay is provided by the employer, with the Guild merely connecting those in need of work to those in need of aid. Many popular fictional narratives center around the dramatic exploits of adventurers, but the modern-day profession is largely unglamorous, and most adventurers quit once they are able to find more consistent full-time employment.