The Lodge of the Dancing Bear is a loose, widespread organization that stretches from Bjeornheim to the northern coast of the Grand Duchy. Members of the lodge—known as guides—are a rough and tumble lot. A dancing bear guide are at home in the wilds of Midgard, but make forays into civilization for the express purpose of exposing city-dwellers to the freedom of the wilds. To them, closed-off streets strewn with garbage and filth mask the truth the wider world has to offer.