Lifemaker
Lifemakers are sapient beings with the know-how and the god complex necessary to create artificial life. Whether through magic or technology, lifemakers seek to create new beings in their own image—or to meet the specs of a wealthy client.
Career
Qualifications
The profession requires hubris, above all else. Beyond that, expertise in a pertinent magic or technology is a necessity.
Career Progression
Career progression varies wildly, depending on the type of artificial life one seeks to create. The individual seeking to create androids might start off creating automatons until they can afford a self-sustaining fuel source for their designs. By contrast, the sculptor working to create golems will probably just start small and work their way up to something life-sized.
Payment & Reimbursement
While some lifemakers are motivated by the hope of monetary gain, others play god just to feel less lonely in the universe—or to feel less powerless. For those that do the work to put food on the table, compensation can be significant. Not everyone has the patience or the personality to do this work, but the people in power will pay a pretty penny to those that do.
Perception
Purpose
Create companions, soldiers, and laborers to do the jobs no one else will do—or that someone else might do if the lifemaker weren’t so socially awkward and so afraid to ask.
Social Status
While the work of the lifemaker is prized, lifemakers themselves are often looked down upon as social outcasts. The general public deeply mistrusts those adults who prefer the company of their “playthings” to the company of living, breathing god-made people.
History
While there were certainly lifemakers in Eden during the First Age, the profession truly exploded in popularity with the arrival of Victor Frankenstein and Geppetto Alighieri at the start of the Second Age. Their collaboration on the creation of an army of wooden soldiers for the Kingdom of Motherland proved to the world the possibilities of this work—and the profitability, as well.
"The profession requires hubris, above all else. ", this summarizes everything so well, and it hits so hard! Another great article Chris :)
Summer Camp is here and so is My pledge! <3
Visit my world of Kena'an for tales of fantasy and magic! Or, if you fancy something darker, Crux Umbra awaits.
Thank you! Trying to catch up so that I don't feel behind when the new prompts come out today. As my therapist would say, I put a lot of pressure on myself.