Re: Guild
considering bower lake is one of the places still available in albion, I'm guessing that it will be the hero's guild remade, judging by the replace tomb door in the center of the lake.
and peter did say in an interview that becoming king is the mid-point of the game, so your character would have to use the guild until he has the castle.
In my opinion, the map room doesn't look that attractive with the checkered tiles, but the rest of the guild shown looks quite good.