Affinity Sphere: probability part of Entropy & Correspondence - Mage20: Entropy, Mind or alternate Sphere Primal Utility. The Syndicate Sphere specialty is Entropy or Mind, according to 2nd edition Syndicate Convention book. Specialty Sphere in Convention Book: Syndicate Revised is Prime but they call it Primal Utility. Hypereconomics depends on resonance rules that were new in Revised Edition.
Old Name: High Guild
Sphere Effects are called Procedures by many Technocrats. Syndicate members call them Adjustments.
One of my biggest complaints with published material’s treatment of the Syndicate is the notion that Syndicate members are greedy and want more money. According to Stewart Wieck’s conception of Mage, all mages are above Sleeper concerns. Mages don’t care about money or status in Sleeper society. Thus, the Syndicate want to control the universe or Sleeper society. They have enough money to do what they want and really don’t worry about it. Think about the Ventrue in 2nd Edition Vampire the Masquerade. They weren’t thinking about how to get more money. They had tons of it and assumed the well would never run dry.
Also, it should be noted that the Syndicate have a grasp of economics that many White Wolf writers lack. Proper economic systems aren’t concerned with getting wealth from other people. They’re about generating wealth. Making more than was there before. My fundamental difference with Mage writers may be that I think more like an economist than a business owner when the Syndicate is discussed. Because of this, greedy Syndicate members (if you must have greedy people in the Syndicate) can’t just think about getting money away from Sleepers. They’re also thinking about how to manipulate things so that Sleepers have more money to get.
Convention Book: Syndicate Revised states Syndicate started in 715 BC in Rome with the Brotherhood of the Rule. Craftmasons in 997 in Frankfurt. High Guild in 1325.
Convention Book: Syndicate Revised changes top leadership from regions to segments of the global economy: energy, finance, healthcare, media, manufacturing, transportation, resource extraction