After joining in 2001, Tree started the Mercenary Brotherhood in 2004 as a way to make money by buying and selling large quantities of rare items to players. This created a large network of hundreds of players who were hired by him. The start of the Grand Exchange made this service obselete. However, with the buy limits in place at the Grand Exchange, buying and selling large amounts of items became difficult. Treeclimber7 started a group of wealthy players from their trading network. The group is rumored to be called The Inner Circle. These players meet in secret and trade incredibly large amounts of items back and forth. With a 1 million gold buy-in to each of these events, a gold cap requirement and the secrecy of the location, these meetings are incredibly exclusive. The network of pla