Professions

There are five professions that are hard to practice but also bring a lot of respect and status, those are: healer, formation master, pill refiner, alchemist and forger.

They are also divided into eleven ranks.

Healers are like field medics and physiciand with most of them having the attribute of water and know they're way around any kind of plants and are apt at using healing techniques and dealing with poisons.

Formation or array master set up arrays that have a multitude of effects such as: maskind one's scent, attracting beasts or making them avoid ziu, attacking, defending,giving buffs ,enhancing the power of weapons, armors, pills, even giving a weapon or armor an ability. The last effects require the array master to be very skilled, or having a rank high enough to work with the necessary materials. The requirement is the mental power has to be high enough so in most cases that means one has to be at the third realm or to have gotten through a lot of thought stimulating situations.

Pill refiners make pills and have to know about the effects of a lot of medicinal ingredients and about materials that could be used as poison so it's not strange for pill refiners to also be healers or vice versa.

Alchemist make pills just like pill refiners but they also make elixirs and powders. Those that have the biggest chances to be an alchemist are those with the affinities for fire and wood or the ones with strong mental power. Even those without the wood or fire affinties can be alchemists. Those with the fire attribute just have to work harder and those with the wood affinity have to use their qi to create flames, having talent also helps.

Affinity with the wood element increases the chances for a pill to be formed and has other effects such as having an intimate connection with the nature.

Forger make armaments and armors. Those that have the affinities for fire or metal are good, having both it's ideal. Even if a practitioner doesn't have those affinities or one of them he or she can still become a forger as long as the practitioner can control it's qi to make flames and put in the hard work, having talent also helps.