The origins of the Guild were shrouded in the uncertainty which clouded many events in the First Age. The few surviving records which told of the Three of Ty-Ar-Rana and the Darin Tesarath were silent on the subject of the Guild. Rumors, however, abounded. Ruins there were too, scattered all about the Mûmakan (in a wider sense) in hidden vales and glades, seemingly placed without pattern or purpose.