Anointed Craft

Anointed Craft is a vows-bound design tradition where a tool’s materials, making, and motive are braided into a consecrated whole. Blessings from craft-gods (chiefly Pheistus and Moradin, with Ioun, or Labelas Enoreth or Sophis for knowledge) license limited, humane function while constraining escalation, enough to dodge The Kihahyon.  

Intent

The Kihayon 'reads' purpose as tools made for defense, rescue, stewardship, and study draw favor; those optimized for slaughter attract the Blight.  

Bounds

When it does something in the hand, it works best, however a machine or a procedure that scales to tens of thousands is profane.  

Divine Influence

Pattern, proportion, and patience are liturgy. When the craft is right, the blessing “has somewhere to live”.  

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The Seven stages of Anointing

1. Declaration of Use
   The maker, says a vow, and the maker names one of the permitted intents and the tool's user group.
2. Measure and Mark (Optional)
   There are many sacred geometries scribed. Later on, the maker's mark is registered in a guild or a patent organization. Though it is optional, not doing it, is hindering the success.
3. Joining
   Glues, solders and bindery done with hallowed medium known as Anointing Medium.
4. Inscription
   Threeshort constraint runes etched, representing range, force, and scale accorindgly.
5. Offering (Optional)
   A fraction of the tool’s value given to the poor, or to repair a shrine or perform a service. It is mostly optional.
6. Warding
   A priest-artificer places the Five Seals.
7. Proving
   The tool is used once for its declared intent under witness. If it answers cleanly, it’s anointed.

 

Permitted Intents

Those permitted intents, are a general name for 'safe lanes' as described by many sages.

• Ward
  An intent to shield lives, holds lines, halts horrors
• Succor
  An intent to heal, purify, rescue and reveal truth.
• Lore
  An intent to measure, teach, record or translate.
• Husbandry
  An intent to grow food, repair homes, mend roads.

  War use is allowed only when it visible serves generally one of these: Warding a city, breaking undead and only at human-scale.    

Anointing Medium

Thosre are the most common mediums that are used.

• Pheistus' Ember Oil
  Heat-stable resins for joins, which could take fire without venting pressure.
• Moradin's Stone Milk
  Silica Slurry that grounds shock and flare.
• Ioun Memory Ink
  Iron-gall wityh silver dust which carries constraint runes cleanly.
• Ehlonna green-wax
  This wood balm of Ehlonna, which is sanctified by priests, is limiting splinters and rot, which makes keeping tools humble and repairable.
• Sophis' Truth (Optional)
  A drop under the seal of witness, which foils counterfeit marks.

 

Five Seals

• Constraint - Which caps reach and output, for instance, constact-only flares.
• Purpose - Which binds function to the named use, for example rescue, defense and such).
• Stewardship - Which enforces maintenance and seasonal renawal.
• Witness (Optional) - Witch ties the tool to its ledger entry (If done) and maker's mark.
• Cost - Which bakes in a small, ongoing cost such as oil, tithe or time, so the tool can't be hoarded thoughtlessly.