Runesmith
Brief
Runesmiths are people who have taken years of training and study to become proficient in the design, creation, and implementation of Runes. Their skills are highly sought after for businesses or personal use, and the price varies heavily depending on skill, demand, and specialty. The most sought after Runesmiths are titled 'Master Runesmiths' and are considered among the elite of the elite within this career. Each Runesmith typically has a school of magic that they specialize in, creating branches of skill trees for each family of runes.What are Runes?
Runes are symbols created from the written word. They take the intent of the word or sentence used to create the rune and charm whatever the symbol has been placed on. Runes take the mana of the world, along with the mana of the Runesmith themselves to work. If a person has little magical ability, they will struggle to be a Runesmith.
Career
Qualifications
- Must know official runes or have the capability of researching for them.
- Must be able to tweak official runes within the legal definitions to best suit the needs of their customers.
- Must keep up to date with rune laws and regulations within their work.
Career Progression
- Student: Still in school, studying the art of runemaking.
Apprentice: Under tutelage of a Runesmith or a Master Runesmith. They are equivalent to junior tattoo artists. They stay at this rank for a minimum of 3 years.
Runesmith: Has documentation stating that they have enough education and knowledge to have their own practice or work in a business.
Master Runesmith: Same as above, only Master Runesmiths are considered experts in the trade, and very few hold this rank.
Payment & Reimbursement
Examples of common runes.
At first, this was setting itself up to be a typical fantasy profession and then I read 'high-school' and realised this world is part-modern, part-magical, which is always fascinating to see how they meld together!
Oh thank you! Yes my setting is urban fantasy so I try my best to mesh fantasy stuff together with urban things. : D