Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20130728185452/@comment-10390252-20140321134801

That could be a plot thread, actually. These organisations are the distant descendents of Hunters' Guilds that formed when humanity was still barely holding on against the Creatures of Grimm. Nowadays, with more and more Hunters choosing to either act as freelancers or even government employees, they're increasingly an anachronism and are becoming more and more focussed on maintaining their power over Hunters rather than facing any enemy (because, currently, there is no such large enemy justifying their existence).

Sort of like the larger and more sclerotically bureaucratic labour unions.