Fairy Tender

Career

Qualifications

A keen focus on details and dexterous fingers are an absolute must-have for a successful fairy tender as well as an intricate knowledge of both botany and fairy ecology. Additionally, many townships require that the prospective tender be associated with a guild whose membership is most often obtain via an apprenticeship contract in the case an apprenticeship is unwanted or unneeded such as in the case of an experienced Tender moving to a new city such prospective members are typically given low level assignments in order to prove themselves before they are given full admittance into the guild.

Career Progression

Fairy Tenders typically begin their journey by signing a contract of apprenticeship with an established tender in their early teens. The apprentices then proceed to observe and assist their master or mistress learning from them the careful precision and careful planning required to succeed in their profession. Such apprenticeships typically last five to eight years before the contract is ended and the newly trained Fairy Tender is free to begin their own professional path.

Payment & Reimbursement

Fairy Tenders normally are paid on a contract basis, agreeing to tend the swarms of their patron for a set amount of time in exchange for a determined amount of silver coinage or in the case of Fairy Tenders who provide fighting fairies to the betting rings such individuals are typically paid on a per specimen basis.

Other Benefits

Fairy Tenders are well-liked by wider society whose services are seen as a benefit to the community. As such traveling Fairy Tenders can expect a warm welcome from townships that are otherwise considered quite unwelcoming of outsiders.

Perception

Purpose

Fairy Tenders are employed to control and maintain the fairy swarms of their patrons for a variety of tasks such as the removal of rust via the Olos fairy or the destruction of dangerous pest species.

Social Status

Fairy Tenders typically hail from all strata of society ranging from commoners whom train Rumplewhites to help in the pollination of their orchards to nobles that create beautiful haphazard poetry through the usage of Gavelwasps.

Operations

Tools

The most common tool associated with fairy tenders is the brass cage. Crafted of thin wire by skilled craftsmen these cages are seen throughout the land due to their preference over iron cages which are known to be considerably dangerous to the health of certain breeds. Secondly, a style of cage referred to as a lantern barrel enclosure is used, constructed of panes of glass and silver wire these vessels are used to store particularly difficult to obtain fairies such as Firespinners or the small Wilmira who can on occasion manage to slip between the bars of a brass cage.

Materials

Brass and silver are the trademark materials of the Fairy Tender. Brass due to its cheapness, ease of casting and non-toxic nature to fairies whilst silver is used for its magical nullification effect.

Workplace

While some Fairy Tenders travel from location to location in caravan wagons others prefer a more stationary lodging. Regardless of their mobility, a Fairy Tender's home is filled with strange arrangement miniature tools, brass cages, and looking glasses. All carefully crafted to ensure that even the most delicate of tasks can be performed without injuring the fairy in question, additionally such lodgings are often adorned with manuals and treaties relating to their craft.

Provided Services

Fairy Tenders provide their patrons with the service of raising, breeding and caring for the numerous breeds of fairies that inhabit the continent. Through their careful manipulations of the environment, a skilled fairy tender can encourage desired breeds to take up residence in their patron's holdings while simultaneously discouraging unwanted breeds, this though is not an easy accomplishment fairies being extremely fickle creatures whose whims are difficult to control an unskilled tender can easily find themselves with an infestation of a destructive breeds or an environment devoid of faries all together.

Dangers & Hazards

Only semi-tame at the best of times, Fairy Tenders can be exposed to dangers posed by the more exotic breeds if they are mishandled such as the acidic salvia of the Olos fairy capable of burning through human skin or accidental immolation by a Firespinner smuggling a still smoldering ember within confines of a Tender's lodge.

Alternative Names

Fairy Tamer, Fairy Breeder

Type

Agricultural / Fishing / Forestry

Demand

High demand

Legality

Legal throughout the world in a general sense, some free cities and lordships have decreed the formation of Tender's Guilds in order to ensure that the individual providing services are in all honestly qualified for their profession due to the inherent dangers associated with mismanaged swarms.