Gladia

Gladia is one of the three job streams for professional guilds. Gladia professions are focused primarily on resource gathering and protective/offensive roles in the community. They typically enter military or mercenary guilds, or work with the natural world such as husbandry and agricola.

What’s involved in this job?

• Population organization in communities, human resources (urban planning)
• Enforcement of law and governance (infrastructure)
• Infantry, armoury/weaponry, scouting/strategy (military)
• Expeditions, naturalists, zoologists, explorers (wilderness expeditions)
• Emergency training, crisis intervention (peacekeeping)
• Representing their culture on a physical level (statesmanship)

What qualifications and skills are needed?

• Each rank requires specific amounts of field experience at different leadership levels
• Everything after Novice rank requires an initiation into a guild
• There are particular certifications for skills depending on the guild you are initiated into
• Many certifications are considered "hard skills" such as physical/martial arts, emergency medical care, terrain navigation/hunting (ranger)
• Other certifications are "soft skils" such as diplomacy, religious studies/history (particularly of war and disaster), and experience-based teaching

What are the perks?

• It fills the Second Need of the Folk: Prowess in warfare and execution of need
• It is a physically demanding work that allows for heroism, glory, and cultural feats
• Excellent for active extroverts who enjoy pushing social change
• They often have the first sight of new lands or animals, allowing for constant adventure and excitement
• They are known to be extremely helpful during times of crisis or emergency

And finally, what’s the risk?

• It can be very demanding on the physical body and also unsafe
• Lower ranks have a high rate of early death, which sharply decreases by the higher ranks
• The environments often encourage harmful social behaviours