Guild Management

[Enraya]

How to get a guild started (initial funding, level, etc.)

I wouldn't even start it until you have 700s+ It's really hard to tell if you're going to need the money or anything. There's been a LOT of instances where people accidentally buy something or see a total bargain for juuuusttt the amount of money you have.
I've never found skills very costly, but good armour gets pretty silver-heavy.

What the different guild titles mean (and what they can do). For example, is a Guard better than a Council member?
No differences at all, besides the name. The only different ranks there are is master, admin and the members. Guards/councils have the same privileges as a member, which... isn't much at all. Admins can invite/ban users and masters can do the same as well as promoting the ranks of the members. You can also assign a different academy master as well. Academy masters can be teleported to any academy member, I think.

Wow I didn't know that LOL.

Warring Guilds
I actually like warring guilds, but maybe that's just because I get really pumped up and excited during PvP xD Fighting other players has never really been a serious thing for me, and I take guild wars as just a fun thing. If you like to have laid-back fist fights, then it would be nice to make a warring guild xD
It's also pretty cool to create events with other guilds through guild wars. If your guild knows another guild well enough, it's easy to arrange a time and have a friendly match. Exhibition guilds don't have this option. There has also been GM events where you can declare war on the GMs' guild and try to kill them (back in the Dakkon and Steam days, don't think it happens very often anymore).
It's also much easier to take revenge with a warring guild. If someone's bullying you, you can easily declare war and try to take revenge. The downside is that the other guild can do the same thing to you LOL.

I think as for warring another guild, it's common sense LOL. Keep in mind that chain-warring between different guilds are common in Fiesta ... if you try to take revenge on a bully, the bully will get his/her friends' guild to take revenge on YOU. It's easy to create a lot of conflicts through this D: