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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8178227" data-attributes="member: 93670">There's another role called <a href="http://keith-baker.com/tag/magewrights/" target="_blank">magewrights</a>, here's a few examples frim that link that give a good range from launderer & locksmith to healer.  It's kinda like a skilled trade I guess you could say I think that rising or exploring eberron might talk more about them too but a handful of ritually cast  cantrips & ritually cast low level spells related to their trade that pcs normally use a spellslot for isn't exactly a big jump for a modified & thematically limited version of magic adept or something.[spoiler][ATTACH=full]131700[/ATTACH][/spoiler]The storm spire is a [spoiler="very rare eldritch machine"][ATTACH=full]131701[/ATTACH][/spoiler]That is also a [spoiler="dragonmark focus"][ATTACH=full]131702[/ATTACH][/spoiler]Being a dragonmark focus item means that it's only usable by someone who won the genetic lottery of birth to be born of a particular bloodline who also got lucky enough to have their mark manifest (a good percentage will manifest).  In some ways the dragonmark houses have more power than nation states & can be likened to proto-megacorps.  That wall of stone hypothetical example I gave may or may not involve one or more Cannith Heirs with the mark of making using a special purpose dragonmark focus item (it was just a spell with a constructive use I picked).  PCs can pick a dragonmarked heir as a race (options for them in rising)The setting does have colleges & universities (arcanix, library of korranberg, wayfinder society, rekkenmark academy, & maybe one or two others covers most) with their own little lore/flufff niche in the world but the lines are a little blurry  so you could have a seamstress lamplighter healer & hypothetical archmage all graduating from the arcanix or whatever</blockquote>

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