Crucibalism

Crucibilism is focused on the transition of materials and the power of creativity. they are deeply interested in how materials transition from one phase to another and most importantly around the forging of metals.
Most cities have an industrial section and usually at it's center is a Crucible forge, and around it the hall of the philosophers who study and tinker. They are consultants to engineers, blacksmiths, artificers, and numeriamancers. The primary use of their magic is to power the forge and to mend broken things. They study the ancient numeria to understand them and try to recover lost technological secrets, or replicate them with a combination of magic and machine.
The Crucible forge has a hidden secured vault where they keep their experiments and collected numeria. Adventures are most likely to be paid in numeria when doing tasks and quests for this order.
Philosophically this order is one of the least esoteric and understood the best by commoners. The esoteric side of this philosophy is their concept of Life in the Crucible - that the individual must be broken down and reformed in order to grow, much like scrap metal accumulates in a shop and must be gathered and melted down to make new useful things. Their philosophy for devotees requires a periodic collection of scrap and melting it down. The devotee will take month in hermetic isolation and with guidance examine their life, flaws, and achievements. They discern what they are holding on to and what state their ego is in. At the end of that isolation they they take The Amalgam, a sacred medicine which is a hallucinogen and a mild paralytic. the experience lasts between 4 to 6 hours and then they mentally melt, and may experience drastic changes in attitude, alignment, and and some times drop quirks and affectations for wholly new ones. this metamorphosis has been known to cure mental illness, and even lift curses caused by magical aberrations. Most clerics, paladins and monks who hold this philosophy undergo this tradition prior to becoming adventurers.

Structure

The Crucibal is a well organized evangelical organism. They actively build forges and smithies in cities and towns and recruit as many adhearants as they can.
Each forge congregation is called a Crew. No class or titles. Members of crew focus on smelting and building together as a team. These items are either sold and proceeds go to the forge or they are given to the needy. Each crew has a forman. This forman may be a layman or cleric.
The world is divided in to Archdiocies, each one focused on a city, so there are hundreds of them. The forman of each town answers to a regional Melter. The Melter collects funds from all of the foundaries in their region, and redistributes them down to individual forges, and up to their higher Archdiocies. At the top of the organization are the Welders and these answer to the Supervisor. The supervisor serves for a 30 year term, and is elected from the welders.

Culture

Pragmatic workman like culture of team work and pride in craftsmanship.

Public Agenda

To continue the traditions that teach machinery and crafting, to get people to see the team over their born position.

Assets

Tools and instruments of the highest quality. Well funded and has treasury of gold and cyphers.

Divine Origins

Crucibal Technology Corporation prided it's self on its commitment to the team and culture. This corporation continued as a global company well into the 9th century. They adapted to the decending dark ages and kept in communication, corporate structure giving way to a religious one.
It is believed that they developed philosphical magic around their crafting of metal and deep belief if team work.

Ethics

• Teamwork first
• Reshape yourself
• Make great works

Priesthood

Forman, lowest level but could be a layman or a cleric. Typically a cleric runs a larger forge or even a "Crafthedral".
Melter, Regional leader of several forges in an Archdiocies.
Welder, Global leader of an archdiocies
Supervisor, Global leader of the philosophy

Granted Divine Powers

Forge Domain is the only domain of clerics of this philosophy.

Sects

Ancient Frame is a sect that has different modality to their sense of Team work. As most forges adapt to the political institutions in the city in which they are founded, but the Ancient Frame believes they should assert their organization to the city in which they are located. The want to replace the kings, queens and aristocrats with workers of the forge. They would also shutdown other philosophies in the city. They are regarded as antithetical to working with others.

Fires of the Forge burn brightest for dedicated

Founding Date

2000A

Type

Religious, Deanery

Alternative Names

The Forged

Demonym

Crusibalists

Manufactured Items

• Common Combi-weapons

Philosophical Cleric: these clerics are usually on a quest to collect unusual machines, identify numeria, and isolate hot spots left by decaying artifacts. They try to protect the populace from rouge automatons and monsters.
Philosophical Monks: League of the Iron Fist is a monastic order that loosely associated with this philosophy and they incorporate iron flesh and martial arts to become the weapon.
Philosophical Paladins: Forge domain paladins are uncommon, if anything they may hold the philosophies and fight to avenge or protect for other reasons. Many choose to take up the paladin path after enduring the The Crucible and taking the Amalgam.