Orost Maker

Bearing the ring of one of Orost's baelants, a Maker is the highest honor most inventors and experimenters within Orost hope to achieve. It grants them access to the Maker Guild and its considerable funds for scientific and magical research. The Maker Guild is an informal group, not functioning as a proper guild. Rather, it's an easy way to refer to the Makers as a whole.

When an individual becomes a baelant for Orost Hold, they're granted a signet ring. This ring bears their mark, and they may bestow it upon any individual they wish. Its intent is to be given to a great thinker, one the baelant believes can push the boundaries of Orost's collective knowledge. These recipients are referred to as Makers.

Orost highly values knowledge and invention, and Makers are afforded all of the amenities of a noble life: fine food, invitations to all of the most exclusive parties, residence in an upper-class domicile, and some servants to tend to their more mundane needs. Most will make great use of the home, and many will appreciate the fine food, but by and large, the amenities are ignored, with the exception of the gold. They're given a generous allotment of gold with which to fund their research. This is the real goal of a Maker: research.

Makers from Orost have greatly benefited the hold over the many years of their existence. Most of their inventions and discoveries are freely available for the public to learn about and make use of, though some are strictly controlled due to being either too extremely upsetting to the economic or political climate or for simply being too dangerous to allow into the world.

Some of their inventions and discoveries include: Some of their inventions and discoveries kept from the public include: Throughout its history, many makers have been named, and most created something of note. A small handful, however, were truly gifted, even compared to their maker peers.
 * Vanik's Instant Fortress - An instant fortress capable of furnishing its own armory.
 * Intraplane Gate Key - A gate key which can act within a single plane.
 * Improvements to Ring Gates - Scaled up ring gates with no weight limitation.
 * Seeking Stones - Track someone regardless of distance.
 * Tracking Stones - Cheaper, limited version of seeking stones with only one use.
 * Elven Generator - A magical generator capable of channeling large amounts of power very quickly.
 * Warpstone - A sliver of the material plane without definite form which can become nearly anything.
 * Uses for Orc's Eyes - Orc's eyes, when treated and ingested, temporarily grant darkvision.
 * Vanik Arellian