Party per pale purpure and sanguine, a brock proper.
The guild’s badge features a brock, or badger, an animal known for its burrowing ability. The badge is displayed outside guild halls and hostels and stamped into metal ingots before sale to authenticate their purity. Many miners stamp their tools and equipment with the badge to deter theft. A pennant with the device flies from a post in the center of each mining camp and is used as the point of measurement for the area of the claim.
Members of the guild are given a medallion bearing the device along with their roll number as recorded by their guild chapter. The metal used indicates guild rank, with apprentices getting a copper medallion and journeymen and masters receiving ones of silver or gold, respectively. A serf who earns his or her freedom by laboring at a mine for two years is given a tin medallion as legal proof of their status.
Mining has been part of Hârnic and Ivinian culture since the Khuzdul first arrived some 7,000 years ago. Minerals and other valuable materials extracted and processed by miners have played a significant role in the development of human civilizations. Today, most mining on Hârn is done under the purview of the Miners’ Guild, and by mining clans in Ivinia.
