Beast Master
| Beast Master
"Yes, she bites. Buffoon." |
Faction:
Blackwood Abbey |
Access Rune:
Abbey |
Faction Boss:
Merchant |
Difficulty:
Easy |
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As the beast master, you are part of the lower end of supply for the Blackwood Abbey. You tend to the garden and beasts within by growing produce, collecting eggs, milking cows, and butchering animals for meat, bones, leather. Similar to a fixer, you have access to the bar to serve drinks or cook food if you wish, but your main goal is merely to make sure the fridge is stocked with raw produce and meat.
Stat Requirement
- Biology: 30
- Toughness: 10
Purpose
Your main purpose, as stated above, is to tend to the gardens and beasts within. This gives you a lot of free time as both largely take care of themselves and need little maintenance besides watering and food respectively. You are to stock the fridge with raw produce, breed and then butcher excess animals for meat and parts, and tend to the kitchen and bar if you wish to help the fixers. Beyond that you have a skill with crafting items through the use of animal parts, ranging from precious leather pouches to leather armor to weapons made of bone. While exceedingly primitive and low-tech, they are cheap and a byproduct of your work. Do not be surprised if a seasoned adventurer asks for your items.
Additionally, you have a selection of war beasts you can produce through the use of breeding that can be sold to others for protection. Theses sturdy creatures are favored assets when one can manage shepherding them through the tight confines of the lower dungeons. Though you rarely have need of them yourself, many would gladly pay for the added layer of guarding.
Tips
- Grow a variety of produce, supply the fridge with meat, and spend the rest of your time making materials with animal parts.
- Cows supply meat and leather but in small amounts, you can get far more by butchering dangerous beasties.
- Your war beasts are powerful but only one can be assigned to a person at a time.
Unique Equipment
- Skinning Knife - Your specialty skinning knife makes for a very poor weapon, but easily butchers animals. Keep it in good condition and do not lose it, it cannot be replaced.
Advanced Tips
- Remind people that having a war beast tagging along can be an added level of logistical management.
- Your equipment is low tech but effective and cheap, pouches in particular are a high ticket item.
- Once you've grown enough produce, consider going hunting to get a surplus of meat and parts.
- Your best equipment requires rare animal parts that only you can cut from a dead beasts, since bodies decay swiftly, that means you will need to hunt it yourself.
| Roles in Hammerfall | |
| Command | Hammerlord, Master of the Forge, Merchant, Penumbra, Exalted, Speaker |
| Breakers | Hammerlord, Master of the Forge, Sledge, Ashman, Firebrand |
| Ashwood Syndicate | Merchant, Penumbra, Agent, Fixer, Beast Master |
| Ascendant | Exalted, Speaker, Rune Master, Rosaria, Seeker |
| Freeblades | Gardener, Jester, Custodian, Prospector, Resident |