Guild

56th Boss Meeting — Guild Clearers' 56th floor boss meeting

A Guild (ギルド, Girudo^?) is a group of players, most on par with each other in regard to levels, with an organized structure and a leader, in various major online games. Known games that have guilds are «Sword Art Online», «ALfheim Online» and «Gun Gale Online». Guilds in Gun Gale Online are called Squadrons (スコードロン, Sukōdoron^?). The current number of existing guilds in each VR game is unknown.

Guilds in Sword Art Online could only be formed after a certain quest is completed on the 3^rd Floor^[1]^[2]. Most known top guilds are composed of Clearers, high-leveled and experienced players.

Guild Features

In Sword Art Online, guilds have unique features that allow players to interact differently from regular player to player interactions and guilds also offer several benefits to its members:

Guild members have access to a common guild storage, which can be used to easily share items, such as potions, among themselves.^[3]
The guild member list can be used for tracking the position of a fellow guild member, if the said member is not within a dungeon.^[4]
Guild members are able to send short messages to one another. Does not work within a dungeon.
Guilds have customizable emblems which appear on the guild members' top left interface, next to the player's Hit Point (HP) bar, as well as next to the player's Hit Point bar from another player's point of view.
When guild members are in the same party, the players receive a slight increase in their stats.^[5]

The only known drawback of being a member of a guild is that guild members are taxed whenever they earn money and the taxed money is sent to the guild's vault.^[5]

Known Guilds

Sword Art Online

English Name	Japanese Name	Abbreviation	Notes
Aincrad Liberation Force		ALF
Aincrad Liberation Squad	アインクラッド解放隊	ALS	Merged with MTD to form the Aincrad Liberation Force after the 25^th Floor boss battle
Moonlit Black Cats	月夜の黒猫団		Disbanded after the majority of the members were killed on June 22, 2023.
Divine Dragon Alliance	聖竜連合(ディヴァイン・ドラゴンズ・アライアンス)	DDA
Dragon Knights Brigade	ドラゴンナイツ・ブリゲード	DKB
Fuumaningun	風魔忍軍(フウマニングン)		Existence only confirmed for the beta test.
Fuurinkazan	風林火山	WWFM
Golden Apple	黄金林檎	GA	Disbanded
Knights of the Blood	血盟騎士団	KoB
Laughing Coffin	笑う棺桶(ラフィン・コフィン)		Not a guild system-wise. Majority of members either killed or imprisoned as of August 2024.
MMO Today	MMOトゥデイ	MTD	Merged with ALS to form the Aincrad Liberation Force after the 25^th Floor boss battle.
Silver Flags	シルバーフラグス		Majority of members killed on February 14, 2024.
Titan's Hand	タイタンズハンド		Members imprisoned as of February 24, 2024.