Adventurer

*The Adventurer's Guild sells 'No Questions Asked' memberships to anyone who pays their low yearly dues. Magick Users who wish to go about unmolested by members of rival guilds gladly pay the pittance for the privilege of being mistaken for an Explorer, Bounty Hunter, Detective, Tourist or whatever.....

Adventurers range from Explorers to Thieves, with a lot of 'free money' coming in to the guild because they allow anyone to join for a cut rate "auxiliary" membership.

[[ Image at right by Naomi Ainslie, (I have asked permission to use this) see her stuff at Elfwood ]]

• Adventurer Adventurers may be bored rich kids looking for something to amuse themselves with, or they may be terrified individuals in trouble for owing the wrong group of people too much money or too many favours. Many people who proudly display the Adventurers' Guild's mark belong to other organizations or guilds but quite a few are sort of 'generic lost souls' who might find it insulting to be called 'Tourists'. {Adventurers begin with [all level 1] Pick Lock, Hide, Dagger and Long Sword skills }
• Thief   Thieves keep the local economy greased and moving. The fact that not everything they 'provide' or trade was come by in an exactly 'legal' manner doesn't bother some folks and drives others absolutely out of their minds. { pick lock, hide, dagger, long sword }
• Rogue   Rogues are often thought of as 'wannabe' thieves, or brutes with not much skill who often do the dirty work, or act as 'muscle' for thieves, politicians, crooked constables... whatever. { blunt, ambush, hide, dagger }
• Gambler   Gamblers are adventurers who believe that the odds should be in their favour. Having a few thieving skills often gets them out of sticky situations or enables them to bankroll their next hunch at some poor citizen's expense. { Hide, dagger, blunt, long sword }
• Explorer   Explorers give the Adventurer's Guild a good name, well, almost. They often need to know how to pick a lock to break into the tomb of some unknown King or Queen (for strictly intellectual reasons, mind you... ; ) { build shelter, find water, build fire, long sword }
• Bounty Hunter   Bounty Hunters are sort of Rogues with Licenses. They get to help the long arm of the law lock up the competition while they look around to find unguarded treasures that quite often follow them home. { Hide, ambush, blunt, long sword }
• Detective   Detectives are people who are obsessed with solving crimes and other annoying blemishes in the polish of the world as they would like to know it. { hidden follow, ambush, blunt, long sword }
• Spy   Spies are adventurers who may be trying to get secret information for a government or employer, they may be professional assassins. They may be professional nut cases who believe they have a purpose in life that no one else can know about. { 1 extra language, hide, blunt, dagger }
• Tourist   Tourists wear funny clothes and often have expensive things hanging out of their pockets. Sometimes high level Questors or Protectors [see 'Religious'] go about disguised as tourists. { get lost, read guidebook, beg, long sword }

Bard

Bards often make music, or art or recite poetry, or act
Or dance, or delve deeply into the ancient mysteries,
Many have learned the magickal qualities of music.
Some become Bards because they're not really good
at anything else.

[[ Image at right is from someone at Elfwood (I will ask permission to use this as soon as I find the artist again.) ]]

• Musician   Musicians play musical instruments, specializing in stringed instruments, wind instruments, or percussion. They also frequently need to know how to defend themselves, whether from drunken, unappreciative audiences or highwaymen (they travel around a lot). They also need to know how to charm landladies or land lords into either giving them free accommodation or not kicking them out when they can't pay their rent. { Stringed / Wind / Percussion instrument, long sword, busking, charm }
• Singer    Singers sing, they also learn to play an instrument for those times when their voices give out, they also need to defend themselves and charm various landladies & landlords into giving them free or reduced rates on places to sleep for the night. { Stringed /Wind / Percussion instrument, long sword, singing, charm }
• Balladeer   (Balladeer) Balladeers usually play stringed instruments and sing at the same time. They practice hard to get co ordin ated so they get an extra starting skill. { Stringed /Wind / Percussion instrument, singing, long sword, busking, charm }
• Actor    Actors often tour the country side with other Bards, acting bits from plays and making fun of political goings on here and there. Their ability to distract an audience is often exploited by pickpockets and thieves. { Stringed /Wind / Percussion instrument, long sword, distract, charm }
• Dancer    Dancers often charm and hypnotize their audiences with their motions. (Dark Elves are especially good at hypnotic, seductive dances...) { Stringed /Wind / Percussion instrument, long sword, hypnotic dance, charm }
• Artist    Artist Bards develop the ability to open wild portals by drawing a place from memory and playing the right notes over or in front of their drawings. They usually carry pipes with them, both for their lightness and their protective uses if a sword is not handy... { Stringed /Wind / Percussion instrument, long sword, drawing, charm }
• Poet    Poets often travel alone for part of the year, writing things down and trying to make sense of their worlds. Another group of them string haughty phrases together to encourage raucous laughter in pubs. {{ Ursan Bards often specialize in limericks }} { Stringed /Wind / Percussion instrument, long sword, distract, charm }
• LoreMaster    Lore Masters may be story tellers or researchers of ancient runish knowledge. Khatzen LoreMasters keep their tribes' oral histories alive and recite long stories of who was who's father and mother, and what honours each members of any tribe's ancestors brought to that tribe. { Stringed /Wind / Percussion instrument, long sword, story telling, read runes}
• Unemployed    The Bards Guild has a special cut rate membership for persons of questionable or non existent talent for, while pan handling may be illegal and punishable by pretty harsh measures in many cities, Busking is always allowed (with proof of Guild membership)- and really terrible buskers are often paid handsomely to either stop playing or move to a corner, where, for instance, a restaurateur's rival might have his or her establishment. { Stringed /Wind / Percussion instrument, long sword, busking, charm }

• Wizard   (Wizard) [Altruists who get suckered into leaving their comfortable hideaways to participate in campaigns / quests that they've been convinced will alter the future of the universe for the better.]
• Mage   (Mage) [Mages almost obviously seek material gain for their knowledge and powers]
• Sorcerer   (Sorcerer) [Sorcerers stereotypically seek power in its various forms]

{ Wild Magicker }

• Druid   (Druid) {Druids bond with animals, gain insight, help from animals, and some say, high level Druids may be able to change into animals}
• Witch   (Witch) {Witches, stereotypically, attempt to communicate with the dead and/or powerful entities from other dimensions. [[Wiccans attempt to live harmoniously and understand the forces of nature and the divine/ Necromancer Witches, like Sorcerers, may be in it for the power they hope to gain. There may be trouble brewing between the two factions. Some Wiccans have joined Druid Circles.]] }
• Seeker   (Seeker) {Seekers are sort of half-religious, half magickers looking for their own special niche in this world. They are often able to pass themselves off as members of Orthodox Guilds and learn skills/spells they would not otherwise be able to learn. Most would then bring their knowledge to their friends and teach them what they've learned.}

• Shaman   (Shaman) Khatzen trained Shamen are very rare and may seem peculiar to anyone who sees them at work, or at all. They are rumoured to have the ability to kill with the touch of a feather and heal wounded folks by placing a stone on their chests.

• ESPer   (ESPer) = a lucky person who is able to use ESP, whether trained or not.
• Latent   (Unconscious) = A person (may doubt his or her own sanity) who gets feelings and hunches that that not everyone else does.
• Novice   (Novice) Someone with Psi potential who has joined the guild and begun to understand and use their talents and abilities.
• Initiate   (Initiate) Someone who is getting the hang of their talents and abilities
• Patterner   (Patterner) Someone who has progressed as far as anyone with Psi as a secondary Occupation can get.
• Weaver    (Psidahrians don't let non psidahrians know exactly who can do what at which level....)
• Adept    But they get more powerful as they progress.
• Master    And Psidahrian Masters are supposed to be able to do some pretty spectacular stuff...