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A Landskeeper is a figure from the Marches magical tradition, who supports the territories or the nation as a whole. Landskeepers can use a variety of methods, from hearth magics to rituals to do this | A Landskeeper is a figure from the Marches magical tradition, who supports the territories or the nation as a whole. Landskeepers can use a variety of methods, from hearth magics to rituals to do this. | ||
When Landskeepers do associate with Households or market towns directly it is always in pursuit of their own agenda. | |||
Some Landskeepers technically lack any real magical ability at all, using traditional rituals and offering good advice and aid to the Marcher folk. A woman that advises on the effective order to rotate your crops, what herbs to use to bring a pregnant pig to term, or where to place a bushel of wheat to keep out evil spirits, is a Landskeeper, whether or not she also employs magic. | Some Landskeepers technically lack any real magical ability at all, using traditional rituals and offering good advice and aid to the Marcher folk. A woman that advises on the effective order to rotate your crops, what herbs to use to bring a pregnant pig to term, or where to place a bushel of wheat to keep out evil spirits, is a Landskeeper, whether or not she also employs magic. | ||
These magical Marchers draw on a number of sources for inspiration. They are as much inspired by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunning_folk cunning folk] of European history as the obvious fantastic characters such as Pratchett's witches. | |||
== Threshers == | == Threshers == | ||
Revision as of 20:31, 17 August 2012
A Landskeeper is a figure from the Marches magical tradition, who supports the territories or the nation as a whole. Landskeepers can use a variety of methods, from hearth magics to rituals to do this.
When Landskeepers do associate with Households or market towns directly it is always in pursuit of their own agenda.
Some Landskeepers technically lack any real magical ability at all, using traditional rituals and offering good advice and aid to the Marcher folk. A woman that advises on the effective order to rotate your crops, what herbs to use to bring a pregnant pig to term, or where to place a bushel of wheat to keep out evil spirits, is a Landskeeper, whether or not she also employs magic.
These magical Marchers draw on a number of sources for inspiration. They are as much inspired by the cunning folk of European history as the obvious fantastic characters such as Pratchett's witches.
Threshers
Threshers are Landskeepers who dedicate themselves to tracking down, exposing and destroying practitioners of magic who bring harm to the folk of the Marches.
A few Threshers expand their interests to include the rest of the Empire, looking for villains outside the borders of the Marches whose wickedness threatens - or may eventually threaten - the innocent folk of their Nation. These Threshers have an interests in groups such as the circle of sinister sorcerors called the Volodya, or the most powerful barbarian shamans, who threaten the Marches by dint of the threat they present to the entire Empire.