User blog comment:PsijicThief/A New Guild/@comment-7153552-20131011000405/@comment-8248675-20131015181044

Not to mention they are both tottaly oposite of what your intent is with unofiliation with politics. As Mirable Erwin states from College of Winterhold "Synod is all about a lot of politics and little magic." I would say College of Whispers the same. Both trying to prove to the Emperor that they should be the authority on magic, but at the same time neglecting the teaching of aspiring mages like they should. This is why, an indipendant institute like College of Whinterhold is the best magic school probably in all of Tamriel. Well possibly outside Summerset Isles/Alinor. I am sure that Altmer have very good magical training schools.

As for your idea for the guild, you said that you thinking about a grand network of information. Spies, all over Tamriel, spying on behalf of anyone their leader would say they should spy for. Gathering inteligence and perhaps even sabotaging someone else plans by infiltration and planting false proofs. How about calling it Inteligence Guild, maybe their moto or password should be "Knowledge is the Power". This can even be incorporated into the lore by saying that Thieves' Guild and Dark Brotherhood gets their information mostly from contacts in that Guild. That guild can be the famous network of informants, who for the right price, can bring information to other Guilds that require it. I am not sure if Imperial Legion would be seeking their information though, but they don't need to work with them as well.

I am sorry, I hope I am understanding your idea better now, and sorry for some lame suggestions. In whole honesty, I woke up not too long ago, even though it is like 2 in the afternoon here. Don't ask why I have sleeping scadural like that.