The moderation and stabilization of magic in a wide radius around each pillar allows for a region of relative safety in which the citizens of the world can build their homes without the fear of the dangerous manifestations that appear in the untamed lands and oceans around the world. As a result all the world's Major Cities are built around the Celestial Pillars, though not all Pillars are surrounded by civilized folk.  People living in civilized areas typically stick to the proximity of the Celestial Pillars.  

People living in these areas are almost entirely all bronze rank, with a small host of powers they’ve had their whole life.  Some few are able to advance through a combination of diligent practice, the absorption of magic in higher magic zones, and rituals, but this advancement is slow and very few have managed to advance to gold rank. 

Of those Celestial Pillars that foster more advanced civilizations, many participate in a ritual once per decade.  Each participating nation summons a group of outworlders.  These outworlders are summoned from low magic worlds where they can take adults who excel in their own world and offer them essences to bolster their strengths and make them into the heroes they need.  

Each country offers their summoned outworlders 3 essences each chosen from a selection of one of each type.  This offers the party flexibility and choice but limits overlap.  In addition the rituals used to summon the outworlders have certain criteria they look for in the people they summon, which attempts to choose people with different aptitudes.

Alethian Pride

One notable global guild is known as Alethian Pride.

Alethian Pride is a well funded global organization that believes the extra-planer summoning of heroes is an unacceptable waste of resources and that the native born population of Adventurers are more than capable of handling anything and everything their world can throw at them.  To this end they support adventurers with the same beliefs with a global network of support.