Quote Originally Posted by Shadotterdan View Post
The name on the leveplate thing reminds me, just spitballing here, but do any of them show up as the people requesting the leve? I know there's some group like Maisenta's traders that only really show up in that lore.
No, as far as I remember anyway - each normal city-issued levequest had a specific affiliation towards one of the three, and thus you got points called 'Faction Credits' towards each depending on the affiliation of the leve you did when you completed a levequest; eventually you would earn enough points to then do special 'factional levequests' requested by that specific faction that would reward even better items (stuff like the old Onion doublet gear came from them originally).

But the leveplates themselves were issued at the leve counter in the Adventurer's Guilds, you never saw any of the factional representatives themselves, at least, I don't remember any, and my memory is less than reliable, so do not take that as gospel! :P Either way, the Grand Company leves basically replaced them, kind of like how Guildhests replaced 1.0's Behest system, it's just another old 1.0 idea that ARR replaced with something similar, but not.