Soulweaver

Soulventure Entry #7: Soulweavers

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A Soulventure, so a group of slaughtering and gathering adventurers, can get really messy and uncoordinated. I suggest we introduce a person that can hold the souls together. Not really the brain, but the very skin that holds all the components of a system together.

— Journal Entry of Mr. Rox

Weaving Imagination into Reality

We as Soulweavers have one job, to keep the fuckers we call teammates alive. Over these next few years, you will learn how to use various trinkets, create your own, and apply them to guide your teammates towards, well, not dying. As a rule of thumb, if ythey don't die, you did your job.

Trinketry

As you are all aware of, here on Ignotas, almost no magic can be cast. We have seven or eight real mages, who are all astoundingly powerful and, because of reasons unknown to me, do not require an object to channel their magic through. So if you happen to be ordinary, like everyone else in this world, you will have to put up with Trinketry class, and me, Professor Ambrose.

Use of Trinkets

Trinkets, in contrast to artifacts, are small items, made for a very specific use. We have dozens, if not hundreds of them already designed, so there will definitely be something to you liking. If not, well, not my problem. You use these trinkets for various things, like communicating, supporting, fighting, and most importantly, utility. We are the ones rendering the beasts we hunt vulnerable to attacks, we are the ones putting up barriers so our plant-picking companions don't die, we are the ones that conduct the battlefield.

Building your Own

While the standard trinkets were useful when we started expanding the known world, we are at a point where beasts are getting more ferocious and the environment is getting more deadly with each step beyond the Worlds Edge. Because of this, we encourage you to find your own fighting style and specialization, and build your own trinkets accordingly. Don't worry, we will get to that in due time.

Finding your Fightingstyle

Parallel to your Trinketbuilding-Workshops, you will begin to pair up with other adventurers from the Slaughterers, Botanists, Warders and Beastiarians guilds. Do put at least some thought into who you're pairing up with, so your abilities harmonize together. With your group, you will then train extensively to find your true specialty.

Soulventure Web

Soulventure Lesson number one, listen up everyone! Trinkets are normally invoked manually, by touch or remotely. This basic property is, frankly, shit, since we don't want a million trinkets on every member of the Soulventure, but only the Soulweaver. We developed a way to spin a web between the Weaver and their teammates, a link of sorts. Through this "channel", a Soulweaver can send spells, invoked by their trinkets to their mates without them needing trinkets of their own. This web will glow and break, depending on the strength of the link, easier or harder.

Specialization

You will soon be put before a choice. A specialization choice of what type of Soulweaver you want to be. Once you choose, you will take extra classes within this field and become a specialist in it. That does not however mean that you will not learn techniques and gain knowledge from the other branches. You will need to be able to do everything.

Healer

1. Tender
2. Aid
3. Healer
4. Vitalist
5. Saviour
6. Master Healer

Guardian

1. Knight
2. Protector
3. Guardian
4. Warden
5. Sentinel
6. Master Guardian

Enhancers

1. Amplifier
2. Augmentor
3. Enhancer
4. Empowerer
5. Ennobler
6. Master Enhancer

Tactician

1. Planner
2. Schemer
3. Tactician
4. Strategist
5. Visionary
6. Master Tactician

Type

Arcane

Common Starter Trinkets

If you think that's all the Trinketry you need to know, you are either really optimistic and won't last a raid out in the Fog, or just really fucking stupid, in which case, the same fate will befall you. No, a real Soulweaver mastered about thirty trinkets, and uses at least twenty per raid consistently.

— Professor Ambrose

Soulweaver Apprentice by Mid

Specialization Introduction

Healers will help their party to stay alive through various healing, antidotal and regenerational artifacts, while Guardians try to keep their comrades out of harms way in the first place. They fortify their comrades defenses, either through fortifying their armor, quickening their steps or raising other magical barriers. The Enhancers take a more aggressive approach and try to kill the enemy before they can kill their fellow souls by bestowing damage buffs and dealing damage themselves. Last but not least, tacticians opt for a methodical approach, being proficient in scouting the area, preparing illusionary effects or transforming the terrain entirely.