Svogthir was a parun, an original signatory to the Guildpact. Svogthir had signed third, after Razia of the Boros Legion and Azor the Judge, giving his allies on the side of chaos an excuse to follow his lead. It wasn’t an exaggeration, the scrolls read, to say that if not for the Golgari and Svogthir’s simple act of wisdom, there would be no guilds today.