Allyn Artificer
Found and trained in Skygate City, Allyn, these craftsmen have descended from the 11th century Auldic clock-makers, and developed into a profession that routinely produces lifelike automatons, exquisite time pieces, astounding prosthetics and many other contrivances. They do this with precision engineering, springs, pulleys, water power, early hydraulics, air pressure, and sometimes the limited application of steam power. If their creations are damaged, only an artificer of similar skill may repair them. This craft has an advanced level of artificier-mage, but only a half-dozen exist. These gear wizards may make automatons that are self-repairing, sentient, or perpetually powered by unknown means. Artificer-mages also are known for miniaturization, a skill that lets them create portable workshops and similar automated contrivances.
Alusian Karcist
Sometimes called alienists or black arcanists, this is a variant form of demonologist, but devoted to chthonic and pre-human entities. This order developed in the caves of Mt. Alu, found in the Kamm Mountains on Yrdath, Alusia, they have now spread out into both southern Aorlis and Imerkand. Members are antisocial, collecting in secretive groups of fellow karcists, forming small covens where their goal is to hoard chthonic lore, and facilitate the adoration and eventual return of the Old Ones. They have a special skill for deciphering the messages from prehuman glyphs and symbolism. Karcist rites are notoriously dark, and practitioners often lose their sanity in search of knowledge. They heavily use mind-altering drugs in the spells and practices. Most people find a karcist’s presence awkward, and maybe even makes them leery and paranoid. Their dark practices, drugs, and trances make them skilled at scrying into deep prehistory.
Alusian/Kaldurian Surgeon
These surgeons are in demand throughout Aorlis, so usually they are found only in the courts of wealthy aristocrats or high churchmen. Trained at Fenwidden University, Alusia. Alternately, the doctors of medicine that earned degrees from Ygarl University, Kaldur are equivalent in all ways, and there is long-standing rivalry between the two schools. Any surgeon, barber surgeon, or chirurgeon can extract teeth, set broken bones, lance boils, amputate limbs, extract foreign objects such as arrowheads, wound care, and potentially treat infection. Alusian surgeons, however, can also perform plastic surgery, cataract surgery, trepanning, fistula surgery, and similar delicate operations. Women admitted to university are rare, but it has happened before, and there have been some renowned female surgeons.
Burlami Blade Mage
Burlam and her smiths already are celebrated for its amazing steel and fine bladed weapons, but here the connection between blacksmiths and wizardry overlap. Most Aorlisians consider black smithery to be a kind of magik, and have long attributed supernatural powers to the smiths. Burlami smiths have joined these two traditions, and they use it to create some of the greatest weapons in history. Their spells include those for prospecting and assaying ores, and for different steps in the blade-making process—refining, forging, quenching, tempering, grinding, and fitting. They extensively use charged runes, etching them into blades to imbue these weapons with power and intention. Burlami Rune Smiths produce both pattern-welded and crucible steel, and they know spells to alloy different rare materials into truly exceptional metals.
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