Round Table Alliance

The Round Table Alliance is a coalition of eleven guilds in Elder Tale and the governing body of Akihabara.

Overview
The Round Table Alliance was organized by Log Horizon's Guild Master Shiroe who wanted to change Akihabara for the better. Eleven other guilds were invited to be a part of the Alliance; however, Silver Sword's William rejected the offer, decreasing the number by one.

The Alliance is designed to be the governing body of Akihabara. Its ultimate role is to improve the city's vitality and security for the betterment of its citizens. Though, originally met with mixed reviews, the alliance proved to be a success and slowly rebuilt the city and its citizens. The alliance also created a tax to fund its infrastructure and research. The new economy also gave the alliance the backing to enforce its regime across the city.

One of the contributing factors for its success is Shiroe's purchasing of the 'Guild Building' zone. With this, he can blacklist anyone who breaks the law, thereby disabling them from using their guild hall, bank or warehouse. This will make living in the city impossible and would force the rule breaker(s) to leave. Later in order to ensure future security of the city the Round Table as a group purchased several other vital buildings within the city so that they would not fall into enemy hands. The cost ran to up to ten million gold a month which caused strain on all of the guilds no matter their size, though the fact that they could do so showed how powerful and well funded the alliance is. The efforts of Shiroe managed to eliminate the ten million a month cost through a near impossible quest.

Purpose
The main purpose of the alliance is to improve the city's vitality and security. This was achieved through governance, regulation, criminalization, taxation, collaboration, information management, innovation, and economy. In the first meeting, the alliance reached the consensus that: Not long after the first alliance conference, League of Freedom Cities Eastal contacted the Round Table Alliance to attend an event at Ancient Palace of Eternal Ice. All alliance members agreed that there would be potential benefits to learn more about unknown elements in Elder Tale since currently there is no accessible quest unlike in the old Elder Tale. As a result, the purposes of the alliance was extended to address political issues between Akiba and the People of the Land. Alliance members selected as representatives to contact League of Freedom Cities Eastal included Krusty, Michitaka, and Shiroe, accompanied by Takamiya Misa, Akatsuki, and Henrietta.
 * They are to disclose publicly that out-of-the-game innovations can be created by those with suitable subclasses and levels without using the in-game menu. This boosts innovations which subsequently increases consumption and business and decreases depression and laziness. The increased consumption of goods also leads to rising in demand and jobs across production and battle guilds who in turn need new items to complete their quest driving the economy.
 * They are to collect resources through taxation and job requests which will be used to investigate the Fairy Rings that can be used for exploring zones and mapping routes. When exploration has been completed, they will disseminate information through newspaper and other media channels.
 * They aim to boost cooperation and respect between the many competing guilds in the city in order to increase fair use of the cities resources.
 * Each guild should compromise with each other for grinding spots.
 * They ban PKing in low-level zones around Akihabara, since it was agreed that it was pointless to fight players with levels under 50.
 * Each guild must respect human rights of players. Since death is not absolute for Adventurers, there must not be any confinement, kidnapping, and rape, as they are now seen as more serious crimes. Joining and leaving guilds must be a voluntary decision.
 * They aim to build good relationships with the People of the Land and respect their human rights since the People of the Land far outnumber the adventurers.

Initially, it was intended for the Round Table Alliance to be accepted into the League of Freedom Cities Eastal as the 25th Noble Family. However, due to conflicting political issues, the absence of the Izumo Knights and the sudden appearance of the goblin hordes with the Return of the Goblin King event, the nobility began making selfish demands for Adventurers to fight off the threats, without being officially recognized. This in turn would have caused further friction and perhaps even dashing all hopes of a relationship between the two sides, had Princess Raynesia not interceded and plead with the Adventurers to fight off the goblins. The Round Table Alliance formed an expeditionary force made up of volunteer Adventurers to battle the invading Goblin hordes.

After the incident, Duke Sergead Corwen decided not to offer the Round Table Alliance membership into the League. After seeing the power of the Adventurers and their ideals of freedom and individuality, he had come to the conclusion that the Round Table Alliance is the equal to the entire League, despite of it being composed of just one city. In the end, the two sides agree to a non-aggression pact and free-trade agreement.

Members
The Round Table Alliance was originally designed to have twelve members but due to Silver Sword's William's refusal to join, the number decreased to eleven. One of the criteria for being chosen as a member of the Alliance is the number of members of the guild. With the combination of four major battle guilds and three major production guilds invited, over two-fifths of Akihabara's population has been represented. To compensate for the remaining three-fifths, three other guilds were chosen as representatives of the small guilds. With the last member acting as the Alliance organizer which is Log Horizon.