Will we find guilds straight away?

From our starting area, do you think there will be a mages/fighters guild there, as I understand, you buy spells from the mages guild (unless some sort of general shop does). So I'm thinking that I would like a mages/fighters guild in the starting area implemented,so we can get these abilities straight away, only novice/apprentice abilities though.

well, if you think back to Oblivion there was a fighters guild and a mages guild in every city.

Hmm but guilds offer skill trees could make the early game too easy. I think they would be available at lvl 10 because it its a confirmed character set milestone.

I doubt you will be able to get them right away. I sure hope that you have to look for them and have it somewhat difficult to join, but who knows. It would be cool if there were different randomly generated ways to get in so it's not always the same npc/quest to join the guilds.

Quoting Paul Sage, they are not in the starter area, but you can head right to the capitol city of your race and signup there at lvl1 if you wish