Miners

Career

Qualifications

No real education, will be taught to identify different ores and how to handle them. Need strength and endurance

Career Progression

There isn't much rankage, they all get the same tools, and mine. New miners may mine at higher levels than older and more experienced miners who will mine at lower more dangerous levels, but experience is gained rather quickly and it is often random who mines at what elevation.

Payment & Reimbursement

They all receive 18 silver per day of work.

Other Benefits

They are recognized as one of the three bases of society; miners, farmers, and lumberjacks. These three gather the resources for a society to thrive and grow.

Perception

Purpose

They provide ores to make tools, armor, and weapons, along with other equipment and can also provide stone for construction purposes.

Social Status

Conisdered a lower occupation and is a common job.

Demographics

About 15% of the population are miners.

History

It hasn;t really changed, they gather materials from the earth to use in construction and smithing.

Operations

Tools

They use pickaxes of varying materials (generally iron or steel, although primitive groups used stone pickaxes), hammers, and explosives (gunpowder barrels Also have torches and lanterns to light their way.

Workplace

They work in quarries, caves, and mines. There may be cranes, carts, and piles of ores or stones.

Dangers & Hazards

There are dangers, mines can collapse, there can be a lack of oxygen causing suffocation, and other accidents that can harm or maim somebody.

Alternative Names

Excavator, Digger, Prospector

Type

Raw Materials Gathering

Demand

It is a staple

Legality

It is a legal profession and pretty neccesary for a strong society.

Related Materials

• Anselian Steel