Fabricator’s Guild
The Fabricator’s Guild was formed to help new Fabricators start off good in their career. For becoming a member, the guild will provide schooling in metal bending, job opportunities, or apprenticeship with an expert Fabricators. Although becoming a member have a lot of benefits, in order to become a member, one needs to show that they can successfully metal bend and pay a hefty fee to join. However the entry fee is the only fee that a guild member will ever have to pay. The public classes are free for any new member, however the apprenticeship program is reserved for very promising fabricators, who must take a test in order to deem if they are worthy for apprenticeship. The logistical side of the guild manage and distribute the fabricators, giving them job opportunities. Some of the more senior fabricators may even receive an assistant or secretary to help them. Although only Fabricators can join the guild, non fabricators can work for the logistical side of the guild as agents or accountants. Fabricators who retire from factory work may still have options from the guild. They can sign up to mentor apprentices or teach in classes. Upon teaching for 4 years, the Guild will continue to pay the retired Fabricator for the rest of their life
Structure
The Guild contains a rank system depending on your skill and reputation. In order to promote, a test will be given to the Fabricator to decide if they are skilled enough for the rank. Every year, every working member is retested to make sure they are not slacking off and are still worthy of their title. Since the guild doesn’t pay their members, promoting doesn’t give an increase in pay, instead it gives more job opportunities, more societal prestige, and more opportunities within the guild
The ranks go as follows
The Requirements for the Entry Exams are as follows
The ranks go as follows
| Title of Rank | Entry Requirements | Job Assigning | Assistant | Teaching Available | Able To Teach | Able To Apprentice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journeyman | Basic Entry Exam | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Basic Artisan | Advanced Entry Exam | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| Experienced Artisan | Cool Iron Exam or Steel Exam and 6 months of membership | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Smith | Cool Iron Exam and Steel Exam, Medallion Forge Exam, and 1 year of membership | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Superior Smith | Advanced Metal Bending Exam and 1.5 years of membership | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Wise Smith | 4 years of membership and 2 years as a Superior Smith | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Master Smith | Master Exam | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
The Requirements for the Entry Exams are as follows
- Basic Entry Exam: A basic demonstration that the candidate can metal bend a basic iron rod using magic and thermal assistance at the candidates discretion
- Advanced Entry Exam: a more involved demonstration, requiring the Journeyman to consistently bend metal within a certain degree. The test is if the Journeyman can bend an iron rod and iron plate 90 degrees with thermal assistance with a deviance of 5 degrees, within 30 seconds for each
- Cool Iron Exam: a test to see if the Fabricator can bend iron without the need of it being soft form heating the iron up. The test is similar to the Advanced Entry Exam however without the ability to use thermal assistance
- Steel Exam: a test to see if the Fabricator can bend iron alloys. The test is similar to the Advanced Entry Exam however the iron rod and plate are replaced with steel counterparts. The exam is still allowed to use thermal assistance
- Medallion Forge Exam: a difficult exam in which the Experienced Artisan must turn a small plate of Stainless Steel into the Medallion which will signify that he is a Smith within the Fabricator’s Guild, the test can only be taken after the Artisan has passed both the Cool Iron Exam and Steel Exam. This Exam is difficult as the Artisan must forge the Medallion from a material with numerous non iron materials in it, and without the aid of heating the material up using a furnace. The tester only has 5 minutes to make the medallion before the tester fails the test
- Advanced Metal Bending Exam: a rigorous exam to see if the smith has truly mastered his craft. The tester will be given a small steel rod with a high carbon level, this makes the steel brittle and fragile as to make the test difficult. Then the tester must bend the rod until the bars ends are meeting, making a ring (if the ring is not circularly shaped then the test fails). Then the tester must flatten the ring into a square plate of exactly 2 millimeters (if the plate is unevenly shaped or 0.1 millimeters to thick or thin then the test fails). Finally, the tester must warp the plate into a 4 pointed star, place his smith’s medallion onto the table, place the plate on top of the medallion, and bend the plate around the medallion in order to form the Superior Smith’s medallion. Upon completing the last task successfully the Smith will then become a Superior Smith
- Master Exam: the Master Exam is less of an exam and more of a demonstration of skill, the Wise Smith must show off some form of unique metal bending related accomplishment to the other Master Smiths and upon a vote, the tester will be decided if he passes. Accomplishments can be created in front of the judges or created prior to the exam. The accomplishment created must be really impressive in order for the Master Smiths to accept the tester among their ranks, examples of previous accomplishments include bending other metals using iron dust, creating an iron sculpture of one of the Judges in less than a minute, and a technique of self heating iron (where the Wise Smith moved the iron particles back in forth to create enough friction to heat up the metal in order to bend it extremely easily)
Public Agenda
To train fabricators and provide skilled fabricators to those willing to hire them
Type
Guild, Craftsmen
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