Anivancers

The soul holds power. The belief of the personal triad has influenced the study of magic and faith for centuries. The belief that every creature is made of three pieces. The material, the memory, and the energy all make up the entirety of a person. Both energy and memory make up the entirety of a soul and countless people have sought to learn all they could about it. Some have even learned to manipulate them.
Anivancers are arcane artisans. The term anivancer implies that they work with Anivances. They are able to imbue objects with a fraction of a creature soul to imbue the object with great power. Using this craft can create powerful items, constructs, and even living fortresses. However, the skill is widely scrutinized and incredibly difficult. Containing a soul in an object is no small feat. Those who can do so and create an enitre craft from it are often highly skilled arcanists, craftsmen, and artificers.

Career

Qualifications

In order to become an Anivancer, one must have an understanding of the arcane, the tools of the trade, and the weight of the souls they use. The craft is highly complex and uses large amounts of magic to ensure that it works. The tools required to create anivances are also highly complex objects that require years of training to be able to use. The Kozanu is one such tool of the trade. A bronze sphere that can hold the core of the anivance takes a long time to learn to use, as well as the conditioning requires to maintain concentration on the sphere in order to pull in soul energy.
The most well known anivancers are often highly skilled wizards and artificers. Those studied in magical arts and have spent numerous years on the study of their magical craft. They often have great use of anivances due to the usefulness of such objects. Being able to create greater magical items, imbue a familiar with a greater intellect, or even restogin the soul of a lost pet into a constructed body. An understanding of the arcane can help create anivances, but mastery of the arcane can help you progress leaps and bounds ahead in the craft.

Perception

Purpose

Anivancers have served as important figures in royal courts, the attendants or companions of heroes, and even heroes themselves. Being able to create powerful magical items to defeat greater and more terrible foes.
Although the resources needed for the undertaking is vastly expensive, a wealthy benefactor can hire an anivancer to imbue their home with an anivance. Wiring stretches throughout the walls of the fortress connected to the core in a secure location. This allows an assistant to always be present, or a security system to be able to keep watch for intruders. Some royals have dedicated servants to the dynasty, even in death. Created into an anivance, their soul is pressed into the core and can watch the castle as a companion or servant for countless years.

Social Status

Despite the skill required and the impressiveness of the craft. The anivancer community is held with a certain amount of suspicion by several groups. The superstitious and faithful believe them to be abusing something the gods should have control over. Chaining a soul to an object is playing god, and the gods have destroyed more for less. Not only that, but they see it as restricting a soul from their well deserved afterlife. Needless to say, numerous cults and faiths around Omeath despise the practice of anivancy. Those with a skepticism of magic and mages also despise the act. They hold great suspicion of the people able to create such items, fearing they could cause great destruction.
Among other mages, anivancers are looked at with jealousy, loathing, or intense curiosity. The craft cannot be done by just anyone, even if they are skilled in the arcane. It takes a certain amount of finesse and talent to be able to complete such acts. Mages who are not able to do such a craft often look upon those who can with envy or hatred. Some other mages also look down on anivancers due to focusing on harnessing the magic of other creatures, instead of strengthening their own. These mages see themselves as better arcanists than the anivancer community and look at them with a sense of disdain. Despite these two views, there are a large number of other mages who harbor curiosity, wonder, and the thirst for knowledge of the craft. A number of elites in The Sulfieri have employed skilled anivancers and hold them in high regard.
Despite numerous negatives views of anivancers, they still hold a fair share of support. They have created many items that can help people around the world. Some create items of wonder and amazement for the use of entertaining the populace. One travelling anivancer created a small constructed menagerie and travels around Czerelan and Amracet as a zoo or circus. Despite numerous critics and detractors, he is beloved by the people he visits. He claims that the smiles he brings to the children makes it all the more worth it.

Demographics

A very small numer of people are able to control or have studied enough to be able to use magic. An even smaller group are able to be anivancers. Anivancy is a rare and delicate craft that is often expensive but results in great power.

History

Anivancy has existed for quite some time. Created in ancient times on accident by an arcanist. The arcanist transfered the soul of a recently slain beast into a held ruby. After some time, the soul disspated and the ruby was left ruined. He and other arcanists began to study the craft and how it could be used. Since then, the craft has expanded greatly. The Soul Weavers were a secretive guild of anivancers in Riyaradh. They created great wonders including numerous magical items that can still be found today. The guild would be stomped out by crusaders who sacked the city, but their inventions advanced the craft tenfold.
Anivancy is a craft that was expanded even further under the rule of the Levanians. They used the craft to enhance their infrastructure and government. A system of anivancy cores could attend to a grand arena where shows were performed and held for thousands of people. A steward anivance was implanted into the great senatorium to assist in voting duties and debates. With the great expanse of the Levanian Empire, the craft was well studied and many advancements were discovered. However, with their disatrous collapse many of those advancements were lost to time and ruin.
Over 120 years ago, the city state of Neasos accepted the Glass Guardsmen Addendum. State paid anivancers created a legion of guardsmen powered by basic anivances and controlled by humanoid sergreants connected to an arcane network. These glass guardsmen have served the city for over a century. However, it has a number of detractors who claim that the glass guarsmen could take jobs from the people of Neasos. Not the mention the chance of them being turned off by anitmagic or being controlled by hijacker mages. The Glass Guardsmen Addendum stands as the only large scale government sanctioned use of anivancy in the world today.

Alternative Names

Anivancers, Soul Weavers

Type

Artisan

Demand

High Level Arcane Craft