Sigildry#

The trade of glass, clay and sigils. Sigildry blows glassware and globes, throws pottery, paints the sigils that harden armor and assembles exotic armor from dragon scale, chitin and amber.

Ranks and quests#

The guild’s hall sets each rank’s quest. Six ranks has what every rank makes, and making something how the craft roll works.

1. Level0
   Rank 1: Inquirer

   Trash to Shoddy · ×1 worth · 1d6 craft roll

   Keep the hall's kiln at heat through a night without cracking anything inside it.

2. Level20
   Rank 2: Hobbyist

   Crude to Inferior · ×1.25 worth · 2d6 craft roll

   Blow a set of vials an alchemist will actually buy.

3. Level40
   Rank 3: Apprentice

   Shoddy to Acceptable · ×1.5 worth · 2+3d6 craft roll

   Throw and fire a full table service, plates, bowls and pitcher, that matches.

4. Level60
   Rank 4: Journeyman

   Poor to Fine · ×1.75 worth · 4+4d6 craft roll

   Identify every property of a magical item the hall has kept unnamed for years.

5. Level80
   Rank 5: Master

   Inferior to Flawless · ×2 worth · 5+5d6 craft roll

   Paint a sigil on armor for someone walking into a fight, and be there to see it hold.

6. Level100
   Rank 6: Artisan

   Adequate to Masterwork · ×3 worth · 6+6d6 craft roll

   Assemble a suit of exotic armor from scales you took yourself, from a creature the hall can name.

The work#

Sigildry works three materials. Glass is melted from sand or salvaged from old glassware, clay is thrown on a wheel, and exotic armor is assembled from scale, shell and resin.

A sigil goes on armor only and changes its armor class, and a piece carries one sigil at most. Identify magic reads every magical property of an item, its elements included.

Melting the glass#

Heat sand in the crucible to its melting point with press bellows, fuel fire and reshape flame. Sand won’t melt into clear glass, even hot enough, without a purifying agent.

Blowing the glass#

Pull glass draws molten glass from the crucible on a blowpipe, and blow glass shapes it as you turn the pipe. Treat glass then lets it cool slowly in a kiln. Cool it too fast and it shatters, or comes out brittle in places nobody can see.

Throwing clay#

Clay is simpler. Shape it on the pottery wheel, cut it free with a wire tool and fire it in the kiln until it’s dry and hard.

Sigils and exotic armor#

Paint sigil puts a sigil on a piece of armor with a brush and paint. Exotic assembly binds scale, chitin or amber into armor with a sigil, and deduce mold makes a mold from an existing piece.

Skills and tools#

ReconditionInquirer

Recondition is used to fix minor problems in exotic arms and armor, turning fair or excellent condition items into mint condition.Tools: steel wool

RepairHobbyist

Repair is used to fix major problems in exotic arms and armor, turning damaged or mediocre condition items into fair condition items so they can then be reconditioned to mint.Tools: steel wool, refining solution

RebuildApprentice

Rebuild is used to completely overhaul broken or ruined condition exotic arms and armor into damaged condition items so they can be repaired and reconditioned back into pristine shape.Tools: blacksmith hammer, anvil

Fuel Fire

Issues coal into a hearth or forge.

Press Bellows

Increases the heat of the hearth or forge by forcing air into it (forge) or upon it (hearth) through a Tuyere.

Reshape Flame

Increases the maximum heat potential by assembling a new layer of damp coal around the edge of the hearth or forge.

Pull Glass

Pulls glass tub out of the forge and pours into the mold.

Blow Glass

Pushes air into the glass through the pipe forming the glass object.

Treat Glass

Finishes the glass form and destroys the rest of the clay mold.

Identify Magic

Identifies any magical item detailing its magical properties, including elemental properties.

Deduce Mold

Create a mold using an existing item, sand, forge and crucible

Paint Sigil

Use a brush and paint to create sigils of power

Exotic Assembly

Assemble exotic items together using a sigil

Split Rune

Splits a medium or large rune into small runes of its thread, a small rune for each step it held. A slip shatters the rune.

What it makes#

Glass#

Clay#

Exotic armor#

The guildmaster#

Mother Sorn ran the kilns at Gilden for longer than most of its mages have been alive, and will teach anyone who can survive a winter there. The Exuvae bought her glass by the crate and asked her about sigils she wouldn’t paint. She told them she’d forgotten, which nobody believed. Now she keeps to the Primal Forge, where the First Artificer’s marks are cut into the stone rings, and reads them the way other people read letters.

Find Mother Ilka Sorn at the Primal Forge at Gilden, in New Saellem. It’s the guild’s only hall: you join there, and you come back to it for every rank’s quest, inquirer to artisan.

Trades it works with#

What sigildry gives the other trades.

Alchemy Vials, tubes, ampoules and flasks. The better a brew, the finer the glass it comes out in. Living things Blacksmithing Sigils for the armor a smith makes, and molds deduced from pieces nobody has a mold for. Fire and metal

What it takes from them.

Jewelcrafting Cinnabar and cut stone for the beads and inlays sigildry assembles. Fire and metal

A good pair

Alchemy: The better a brew, the finer the glass it needs, and sigildry blows it.

Who takes it up#

The classes whose work sigildry fits best. Any class can join any guild.

Runescribe A sigil is a rune's cousin. A runescribe reads both, and paints the one the other trades can't. A natural fit Elementalist Elementalists wade into fights wrapped in auras, and a sigil on their armor is one more layer between them and the blade. A natural fit Mageling Identify magic tells a mageling what an item does without a week in the library. Works well Gravedigger Plenty of what a gravedigger digs up is glass, clay or magical, and sigildry knows what to make of all three. Works well

The guild finder ranks every guild for a class.

How it shows#

None of this changes a roll. It’s how the people around you can tell what you do for a living.

• Paint under your fingernails that never quite comes out, in colors nothing you own is dyed.
• You hold glass up to the light before you drink from it.

What others say#

The sigil she won’t paint

An Exuvae scholar has offered Mother Sorn a fortune for a sigil copied from the standing stones at Harrow Ridge, and she refused. Now her apprentices are being approached one by one, and one has already gone missing with a sketch. She wants the apprentice back before anyone paints that sigil on anything.