Reminder to those easily misled and distracted by puppets and stars.
In this context, craftsmen are initiated practitioners of magic, sorcery.
Secret service.
July 5, 1865 order to create this cloaked guild was on the desk of the within hours assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Arts and crafts. Be they martial, fine, occult, trade, performance etc. Have rank and order, symbol and protocol. Secrecy and OATH.
You already know the answer.