Rune Master

Rune Master "Engineering, research, magic. I can do it all."						Faction: Ascendant						Access Rune: Ascendant						Faction Boss: Exalted						Difficulty: Medium

Rune masters are the magical and mundane researchers of the Ascendant, experts at creating regular items, magical items, golems, and clockwork contraptions.

Stat Requirement

• Mechanical: 30
• Cognition: 10

Purpose

As a rune master your primary purpose is maintaining the power grid that powers the safe zone through the use of the biogenerator, a massive fantastical machine that grinds down life and turns it into recycled power for every light and machine across the safe zone. This produced slop of alchemical mixture can also be refined into organic items, allowing you to make a variety of useful items that can be distributed to others.

In addition to maintaining the power you are also called upon for complex repairs, such as damage to power grids, replacing destroyed doors, or fixing broken walls and other systems both magic and mundane. Your rune forge is capable of creating a variety of materials from weapons to rune plates to build magical machines. This complex device requires resonance and materials to work and can provide schematics for your golem forge so you can make minor and major golem creatures to serve the Ascendant.

Beyond your forges, you also have access to the clockwork lab where specialized brass systems can be put together using wiring and know how. The sky is truly the limit. Finally, your last concern is the slime pens, where slimes are bred and tinkered with to create various magical cores that can prove quite useful for day-to-day operations. Though dangerous, it is highly versatile. You need a wide variety of materials for your work so you will find yourself often bartering with prospectors, the Blackwood, or dungeon divers and much of what can be found below are highly valued for your rune forge.

Tips

• Your exalted has access to your faction account, ask them to give you a stipend to buy materials with.
• You have a wide variety of tasks you can perform, but priority should always be ensuring that the power is set up and working.
• Biomass is highly adaptable, useful for making medkits, bandages, and even some chemicals. Be sure to inform the rosaria if you have a surplus.

Unique Equipment

None, but your ability to manipulate the biogenerator is unique to your spells.

Advanced Tips

• Most people, in particular prospectors, are willing to part with materials and items for creations at your rune forge, just because you do not have access to your faction's funds does not mean you cannot barter.
• The custodian can handle minor repairs in your place, coordinating with them can save you time for more important work.
• A few extra canisters of liquid biomatter can be set aside and swapped easily to restore power reserves when it gets low, usually only four cans will be enough for most shifts. More canisters can be solidified and turned into processed items.

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