There are three competing trading societies in Ahgram, and each offers work orders, recipes and a line of quests that reward you with items, experience and faction. The three societies are: * The Society of Invention - an organization of traders who are in business to research technology to improve the life of the people of Ahgram. * The Merchant's Guild - the largest organization, they are totally profit-oriented and only interested in the acculumation of wealth, to the detriment of anything else. * The Cabal - an unpleasant organization of individuals involved in business and dark magic, who routinely carry out murder to "harvest" body parts for their research and experimentation.