Engineering
The skill to build and repair mechanical wonders, weapons, and other oddities. favourite of gnomes and goblins.
Career
Qualifications
Basic level engineering-or higher.
Career Progression
One tends to begin as a wrench jockey, someone who does minor repairs. they may become an inventor or mechanic, and even further to an artificer or restoration specialist.
Payment & Reimbursement
they are usually self-employed, and pay is equal to the quality/difficulty of their work or product. wrench jockies naturally get paid very little, and artificers can make a fortune from thier wares....especially if they are designed for war.
Other Benefits
the main benefits are the recognition that comes from the attribution to technology, the skill to build a plethora of time-saving machines, being able to repair your own mechanical equipment, and the potential fame from making a beloved construct.
Perception
Purpose
Usually as architectural infrastructure, and makers of life-improving products.
Social Status
surprisingly very low for the most part. engineers are often taken for granted unless they have significant renown, although it is far more integral in gnomish and goblin society.
Operations
Tools
Wrenches, spanners, screwdrivers,nuts,bolts,lump hammers, vices, and more!
Materials
mostly metal and wood, though some can use more exotic materials, such as mithril, crystal, radioactive material, and magic.
Workplace
it can vary petween engineers. some may have a simply workshop of stone, tools strewn everywhere; and others may have a lavish bronze vault, complete with heavy machinery and cosmetic appliances.
Provided Services
repairs, upgrades, servicing mechanical items, creating mechanical items.
Dangers & Hazards
death by being cut in half, death by radiation poisoning, death by crushing, death by laser, death by brake failure, death by lead/metal poisoning, death by fire, death by lava, death by being transported to the demonic plane, ect.
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