The Blight Burners
Blight burners, or simply called Burners, where a vital profession during the latter years of The Fall and the decade or two following its end. Their job was to cleanse the lands from Blight and the Blight Spawns that resulted from it. However their role has drastically diminished since then as the blight has been pushed out of most regions of Arros, say for The ruins of Carathenga.
Career
Qualifications
All official blight burners were Firemages as fire is the only thing that can completly kill the blight or a blight spawn. However, that is not to say other mages and even humans couldn't help, as many filled vital support roles and even defensive roles, while the firemages went on the attack. Usually, all of these individuals were already qualified mage mercenaries or high raking human soldiers.
Payment & Reimbursement
Burners would be payed and/or compensated by their guild or whatever kingdom/state hired them.
Other Benefits
The civilian population who saw them at work hailed them as heros. Many became quite famous and local towns often offered them shelter as they traveled from place to place.
Perception
Purpose
Their primary job was to kill any Blighted person they could find, while also limiting the risk to civilians. Their secondary objective was to burn as much of the blight as they could and/or help regular people doing it also and to generally avoid the further spread of the Blight.
Social Status
It is generally seen as a relic of the past. Relics of a time were humanity was in real danger, which is not the case anymore, and are therefore relegated to the margins of society.
History
During the events of The Fall, this profession was the most in demand out of any magic profession, which lead to the creation of many Guilds to manage all the demand. Since then, all but one guild have disbanded. The remaining guild is headquarted in the City of Naldah. As the demand for their services fell and the wall sealing off the Carathen peninsula, which was the epicentre of the outbreak, was built, their purpose became more defensive in nature. The guild's members monitor the blighted lands beyond the wall, killing any blight spawns that come too close. They have thus renaimed themselves as Wall Watchers. In the past, excursions, mainy for the benefit of curious scholars and scientists from nearby Vrahlis who wanted to study the blight, were organised.
Operations
Dangers & Hazards
While out in the field doing the job, there is always the change that they could get infected by the blight, although they are very slim now, thanks to a better understanding of the illness and the progress in the development of protective measures against the illness.
Alternative Names
Burners
Type
Military
Demand
Almost non-existant
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