Seer

Spirit Healers

Seers are a specialty profession unique to Su-mehr Qiamp. Officially, they're a branch of the religious professions, akin to priests, but practically, they fill a space of their own. They're the only people who can see all ghosts, thanks to an ointment they adorn across their eyes. Their role is to handle the city's hauntings.   The seer philosophy is that ghosts of all types are due to an inability of the living to reconcile past and future with the present. In order to resolve a haunting, one must tend to the soul of the living.  

Responsibilities

• Visit sites of alleged hauntings to verify the haunting and classify the ghost
• Prevent harm to the living from tormented and vengeful spirits
• Aid Dawn Spirits to return them to their bodies before they die
• Find the source of Dusk Spirits to close their connections with the living
• Collect testimony from Dusks of the murdered
• Collaborate with detectives, grief counselors, and others to end destructive hauntings

Tactics

Seers often work in mentor-apprentice pairs. They first aim to contain the spirit so it can't cause harm, then gather information to provide a resolution.  

Containment

Three river stones placed in a triangle around the spirit will form a containment barrier the spirit cannot cross. The stones must be smoothed from the currents of the Mehr River and placed no more than 10 feet apart.   A clear and loud tone, such a from a bell or tuning fork, can stun or confuse spirits for a few seconds. Which tone is most effective varies with the spirit, and often one seer is charge of causing this sort of distraction while the other places the stones.  

Resolution

Once the danger has passed, seers gather information in order to find a resolution. The type of spirit defines the information required, but it's commonly summarized as a Who, a What, and a How, with answers coming both spirits and living.   This step often takes days, which in the case of dawn spirits, puts them on a very tight timeline to save someone's life.