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The Guild of Engineers is one of London's four main guilds, this one being the most important. The guild members are the main antagonists of Mortal Engines, but are the protagonists of Fever Crumb.
All Engineers in the series can be found here.
History[]
Fever Crumb trilogy[]
The Order of Engineers[]
The Guild of Engineers were known as the Order of Engineers at the time of the Nomad Wars in London. They lived similarly to how they would live in the Traction City of London many years later. For they wore white rubber coats, and they shaved there heads completely, because they considered hair as a "vestige to their animal past". The Order lived in Godshawk's Head until it collapsed. When Nicholas Quirke and his organization The Movement came and took over London in his traction fortress, he promoted the Order of Engineers to a Guild status.
Mortal Engines quartet[]
Tractionist London and MEDUSA[]
A thousand years later, the Guild of Engineers is the most important guild in London, led by head engineer and Lord Mayor Magnus Crome. The Guild was divided into a number of sub-guilds, like Salvagemen, Stokers, Wheel-tappers, and Associated Gut Operatives. The engineers had been planning to attack the Anti-Traction League for a while, and they were rebuilding MEDUSA inside St Paul's Cathedral. The Guild was strongly opposed by the Guild of Historians. When London came to Batmunkh Gompa ready to fire MEDUSA, the Historians declared war on the Engineers, and the Engineers fought back. Hester Shaw fought most of the engineers. Most of the Engineers were killed when MEDUSA exploded and destroyed London, yet some did survive (mainly the ones in the Deep Gut).
New London[]
The Engineers who did survive MEDUSA helped construct the hovering suburb of New London.
Film[]
Thaddeus Valentine allied himself with the Engineers to reconstruct MEDUSA, overthrow Crome, and destroy the Anti-Traction League. They were loyal to him until Tom Natsworthy destroyed London's engines with the Jenny Haniver, forcing the predator city to become static. Whoever survived became refugees of Shan Guo at the end of the film.
