Tier II Qualifications »

• Must write 2000 words involving the Occupation's prompt, over any number of threads.
• Must have already completed qualifications for Tier I.

Tier III Qualifications »

• Must write 3000 words involving the Occupation's prompt, over any number of threads.
• Must have already completed qualifications for Tier I & Tier II.

Tithe and Maintenance: Characters in possession of an Artificio occupation must maintain their co-rank via tithe in order to keep their occupation. As such, it's expected that once every six months (counted via Calendar Year, in June and December) players must complete a single thread (1000 WC) involving the creation of an item to be donated to pack stores or risk losing their occupation.

• Prompts:
  1. Crafting is more than just an occupation - it's a gift. Create something for a fellow packmate and give them your creation to show off your work!
  2. You may be skilled, but there is always room for improvement. Learn a new technique that will help you make something exciting and new to flex your artistry and finesse.
  3. There seems to be a shortage of a product! Gather your supplies and materials, and make an object of your choosing to contribute towards Del Cenere's stock.

• Prompts:
  1. Create an article of clothing for an Ashen member, either as a gift or an order. Alteratively, work with a Comerciante to trade your goods abroad.
  2. Get your hands on some raw materials and get to work to make it tenable. Turn wool or flax into a textile, spin yarn, or utilize hemp or jute.
  3. Sometimes daily use is rough on garments or tack. Mend or repurpose a worn out outfit or saddle to make it look like new - Nobody will ever know!

• Prompts:
  1. There is always something that needs built up or repaired. Help to put up a fence or otherwise mend it, patch a leaking roof, replace damaged doors, or create frames for the Gang's effigies.
  2. The Carpintero is the sister occupation to the Leñador - work with one of the Gang's lumberjacks to assess trees for your projects, or appraise raw materials already in Del Cenere's stores.
  3. The ultimate mark of a carpenter's skill and talent is the creation and completion of furnishings, big and small. Take a commission, or otherwise create any manner of house furnishing (carved mantlepieces, chairs, tables, bowls, or shelves) within Luperci means.

• Prompts:
  1. Craft a weapon for someone, and help them train with it, or alternatively help to maintain communal weapons. Fletch arrows, sharpen blades, or tend to armor.
  2. Supply communal tools and demonstrate their uses. From pitchforks to combs, no invention is too inconsequential.
  3. Upcycling old or damaged goods is all a part of the job. Dismantle unviable tools, scavenge from ruins, or otherwise refine and repurpose scraps so they may be used in the future.

• Prompts:
  1. Go through any steps in the process of tanning - skinning, fleshing, stretching and treating with fat or brain - your goal should be to turn a carcass to serviceable fur, leather, or hide.
  2. Some scraps simply aren't good. Find a use for an odd-shaped piece of leather. Alternatively, cut down odd, untreated skins into strips and bring them to a Carnicero to have them cured; There's nothing better for teething pups than braided, smoked hide!
  3. Put out requests - perhaps there's been a large order of deerskins for a project? Maybe you're wanting to create rabbit-fur pillows? Perhaps you'd like to participate in a hunt and gather the goods yourself!

Tithe and Maintenance: Characters in possession of a Suministro occupation must maintain their co-rank via tithe in order to keep their occupation. As such, it's expected that once every six months (counted via Calendar Year, in June and December) players must complete a single thread (1000 WC) involving the creation of an item to be donated to pack stores or risk losing their occupation.

• Prompts:
  1. Dry meats with salt, and contribute them to the larder for later use, or help someone to prep their kill for communal stores.
  2. Create something mouth-watering with what would otherwise be considered byproduct. Smoke pig, sheep, or deer ears to make delectable chews, pickle the feet of fowl or hoofstock, create a broth from tails and marrow-rich bones, or render fat into long-lasting lard for future cooking!
  3. While it's the most common base the Carnicero works with, meat is not the only material to be turned into delicious meals! Get some dairy with the help of the gauchos to make butter or cheese, or work with the Pulgar Verde to bring some Luperci-friendly vegetables and herbs to the table.

• Prompts:
  1. It’s no secret that some of Del Cenere’s traders have seedy intentions with their wares; help to supply some of their patented cure-all “medicines”.
  2. Coordinate plant-knowledge with a Pulgar Verde, and collect fresh botanicals, fruits, saps, or honeys with which to flavor, infuse or make your alcoholic beverage.
  3. Test out some of your newest batch on a willing (or unsuspecting!) volunteer! Alternatively, perhaps your experiment went terribly wrong; Clean out the still thoroughly to get rid of the soured mash scent - at the very least, vinegars are still very useful to the Carnicero!

• Prompts:
  1. Craft a poultice, painkiller, or any other medicinal good. Alternatively, accrue harmful plants and cultivate a poison.
  2. Teach someone new, or someone young, how to identify the uses in plants - Psychoactives, dyes, consumable plants, medicinal, poisons, there's plenty of utility to be learned! Otherwise, log your information and give your learnings over to the Erudito so they have record of what can be gardened or foraged within Ganglands.
  3. Maintain the Gang's gardens out in Irving. Harvest fruits or vegetables, weed garden beds, or gather compost to prepare the soil for frigid, frozen winters.

• Prompts:
  1. A tree looks to be leaning dangerously close to personal or pack property - help a packmate to take down that tree in a safer manner, before it does any serious damage.
  2. Take to the trails with the Pionero and work to clear away brambles, fallen branches, widowmakers, or other hazards to ensure safe travels between localities within Ganglands.
  3. Mill down fallen trees into workable lumber - create planks, posts, fence rails, or firewood for the use of the Ashen!

• Prompts:
  1. Track your quarry through the wilderness and log the migratory patterns of wildlife through Gang territory to plan out proper hunts - Knowing your prey increases the likelihood of favorable outcomes with hunts, after all!
  2. Craft traps - snares, deadfalls, tension traps, or even fish traps, and set them out in the wilderness of the Gang's territory or along borders as defense. Avoid disaster as well and set out markings to warn your fellow Ashen to prevent them from falling victim to potentially lethal mistakes!
  3. Coordinate a hunt with a packmate! Utilizing your know-how, either lethally take down game for food or safely trap companion birds for the Halconero.

Tithe and Maintenance: Characters in possession of a Labranza occupation must maintain their co-rank via tithe in order to keep their occupation. As such, it's expected that once every six months (counted via Calendar Year, in June and December) players must complete a single thread (1000 WC) involving the maintenance of communal animal stock or risk losing their occupation.

• Prompts:
  1. Communication is vital. Practice low (or high, depending on the bird) speech with your avian friend, or maybe even teach a fellow Ashen the ins-and-outs of speaking with birds.
  2. Trap an adolescent bird and help its chance of survival to adulthood - practice hunting, spying, or sending messages with your fresh avian companion.
  3. Construct a coop, loft, or a mews for your avian companions to ensure they have shelter in the case of inclimate weather. Alternatively, set free a wild raptor friend once it has survived past the fraught and delicate stage of adolescence so it can return to its natural life.

• Prompts:
  1. A healthy horse is a happy horse! Check over the communal horsestock for any evidence of lameness, dental concerns, signs of colic, or anything else that could be ailing them and treat accordingly. Don’t hesitate to use the help of a Médico or a Pulgar Verde if warranted!
  2. Exercising a horse’s mind is just as important as their physique. Begin training a green horse or practice some groundwork with one who has already been broke. Alternatively, desensitize them to a variety of stimuli to help reduce their likelihood of spooking.
  3. Sometimes, despite it all, things just go wrong. Help a fellow Ashen with an urgent matter, such as assisting a foaling mare in distress, trimming overgrown hooves, etc. before anything gets worse! Alternatively, commit to a longer-term project, such as rehabilitating an injured, neglected, or abused horse.

• Prompts:
  1. The Gang's livestock are their lifeblood, both for food, supplies, and trade, and thus, it's important to keep them healthy! Shift livestock through pastures, check them over for injury or illness, and keep them in good form.
  2. Maintain supplies collected from livestock - goats and cattle are share-milked with their offspring, sheep and goats are sheared for wool, and if allowed to free-roam, pigs are useful in finding truffles and other edible forage!
  3. Hoof health is understated in its importance for the health of creatures big and small - with the aid of another Ashen, keep animals steady as you trim down hooves to keep them clean and pristine for the good of the beast of burden. Alternatively, aid someone having a health crisis with their animal companion - help birth livestock babies or administer veterinary care to a sick pet and monitor if the situation improves.

• Prompts:
  1. Keep your ear to the ground. With Charmingtown being a relatively busy trade hub, it's easy to come across leads for potential targets to your thievery.
  2. Swindle, or otherwise liberate, livestock from an Outsider to either add to communal stock or sell off to some other fence. Just remember to ensure that you are not followed back to Del Cenere's territories, by whatever means you see fit!
  3. Livestock are not the only things the pilfering Ladrón is after. Steal supplies, purloin goods, or otherwise appropriate a stranger's belongings to bring back to the Gang. Alternatively, practice your diversion-and-swipe tactics on a fellow Ashen (provided you give back what it is you've nipped off of them)!

Tithe and Maintenance: Characters in possession of an Archivos occupation must maintain their co-rank via tithe in order to keep their occupation. As such, it's expected that once every six months (counted via Calendar Year, in June and December) players must complete a single thread (1000 WC) involving the upkeep of communal records, logging of or relaying and dissemination information, or risk losing their occupation.

• Prompts:
  1. Visit with a friendly or allied pack to copy a book in their library that may be of interest to the Gang, or, create a book from scratch - Be sure to get only the most accurate information to log, though!
  2. Go through the process of creating a book with which you will inscribe information. Create papers, bind the pages, and create sturdy covers. Alternatively, practice your penmanship - write with a quill and ink or charcoal.
  3. Create a historical record. Take note of pack events, pack projects, take a population census, or otherwise gather information over pack happenings with your fellow Ashen, or otherwise organize information that you have gathered to make an accurate timeline for quick and easy discovery to reflect on.

• Prompts:
  1. Reading and writing, in addition to basic addition and subtraction, are important parts of record-keeping. Help another Ashen tackle one of these difficult skills. Remember: patience is a virtue!
  2. One of the best ways to ensure a lesson sticks is to put spoken theories into practice. Take your student out into the field and have them engage in the topic of your teaching directly.
  3. Learning a new skill - whatever that skill may be - is fulfilling and immensely beneficial, but oftentimes takes life-long learning. Practice learned skills with another Del Ceneren to keep your skills sharp and assist them on the road to mastery!

• Prompts:
  1. Siblings bicker, and they bicker a lot. Help resolve a minor dispute or conflict between youngsters, or aid a parent in mediating their children's fighting.
  2. Teenage months are awkward, gawky, and riddled with hormones. Exercise your patience and hear out the (at times petty) anguishes and ailments a young Ashen is going through, and dispense advice if you feel it's needed.
  3. Oh no! Even with the best of intentions, slip ups are bound to happen - with the world being so big, and confronted with limitations they may not yet understand, aid a Chispa through a downright nuclear meltdown.

• Prompts:
  1. Take a count with communal stores, or otherwise monitor the Gang's assets closely to ensure appropriate stock is being kept. Alternatively - find a short in the numbers, and get to the bottom of this deficit or intercept a theft!
  2. It seems as though an item is getting low in storage! Seek out someone with the appropriate Occupation, and task them with fulfilling what's needed with the power of orderly delegation.
  3. Check in with Syndicates, Free Companies, Foundries or Project Leads to gauge what is needed to ensure smooth operation, and secure whatever means they need.

• Prompts:
  1. Help to prepare a burial - dig the grave, build the pyre, or make a cross to mark where the dead will lay. Reach out to the grieving family to secure whatever baubles they would like to decorate their fallen's grave site with.
  2. Assist in the construction and decoration of an ofrenda for the grieving family, and bring an offering of your own to lay out for the recently deceased.
  3. Tend to the graves outside the All-Saints Chapel - dust off crosses, fix or mend ties, polish antlers or sweep off horns, and trim back wildflowers once they grow too leggy - just be sure to let the plants seed so they can grow back full and beautiful the next year!

Tithe and Maintenance: Characters in possession of a Balaurte occupation must maintain their co-rank via tithe in order to keep their occupation. As such, it's expected that once every six months (counted via Calendar Year, in June and December) players must complete a single thread (1000 WC) involving training in combat or maintaining the upkeep of communal armor/weaponry, or risk losing their occupation.

• Prompts:
  1. Practice your marksmanship. Standing and hitting a target is very important - however, quite standard; and challenging oneself leads to greater improvement. Attempt archery from horseback or whilst otherwise moving, throw javelins through dense cover, or practice with slings and bolas on craggy or uneven ground over a long distance.
  2. Assist and compete with a fellow Arquero to improve your skills, or otherwise train up someone fresh to the trade of ranged combat.
  3. Put your skill into practice with pack hunts or other stealth and ambush related tasks - an Arquero needs to move silently, and efficiently, but also needs to be effective in incapacitating a target!

• Prompts:
  1. Actively protect borders. Chase off intruders (be they luperci or some manner of beast), or, alternatively, defend a fellow Ashen from an assailant!
  2. Mediate a dispute among Ashen members and make the final call as to how to resolve things. Whilst not necessarily popular, stepping in can be a necessity - and, sometimes, greased palms can help sway the outcomes of conflict.
  3. Charmingtown draws in all manner of outsiders seeking drink, food, or trade, and sometimes bad seeds get dragged in with them. Intervene in a conflict and throw out an interloper before things grow more serious, or throw them overnight into the Drunk Barrel to cool off and think about what they've done.

• Prompts:
  1. Dole out justice on behalf of the Rey Salvaje or Comandante, and apprehend a bounty who has done the Gang wrong. Alternatively, exercise the skills of any well-to-do hunter, and track down your quarry to issue a warning.
  2. The Inquisador is intended to be the Gang's muscle - usually abroad - but sometimes a flex of strength is required within the Gang's borders. When the Guardián's mediation fails, step in, and make the point known.
  3. Intimidate information out of an outsider in whatever method is deemed effective against them.

• Prompts:
  1. Study with someone knowledgeable in anatomy or learn the information yourself in order to find the most vulnerable and important places to hit in a fight.
  2. Practice sparring or combat with your weapon of choice, or learn skills with a new and unfamiliar armament. Warriors must be fearless, and any hesitation can lead to death on a battlefield.
  3. Training the body and mind is more than just engaging in combat to ensure peak physical fitness. Wind down with a fellow Ashen with meditation, a good meal, or otherwise engage in other exercises like hikes, stretching, or runs to free the spirit and work the muscle.

• Prompts:
  1. Clear a new trail for pack members to use, or maintain a current trail to ensure it’s still traversable! Alternatively, maintain the border, clean up effigies, hang up cloth markers, or mark trees with ash or carved markings.
  2. Gather information involving another pack or a loner band - the more subtle you are, the better. Knowledge, after all, is power and revealing your own identity is up to your discretion.
  3. Aid a Cazador in good prospective areas to lay border traps, coordinate with the Ruedero to relay safer routes in strange territories, or otherwise assist other Ashen in navigating the world abroad and what areas to avoid.

Tithe and Maintenance: Characters in possession of a Bienestar occupation must maintain their co-rank via tithe in order to keep their occupation. As such, it's expected that once every six months (counted via Calendar Year, in June and December) players must complete a single thread (1000 WC) involving contributing traded goods to communal stores, assisting fellow Ashen with their well-being, or coordinate a social venture (3+ characters in the thread), or risk losing their occupation.

• Prompts:
  1. Sell somebody they don’t need; convince them that they need it, and trade it off at an absurd price; or sell a fellow Ashen something at a discount.
  2. Have an eye for details - catch someone trying to swindle your character or a packmate, and turn the tables on them. Sometimes, making a huge fuss over even little things can result in discomfort - and these situations may prove advantageous if the target is eager to make a quick and painless exit.
  3. Coordinate a trade venture abroad and keep tabs on other packs' and loner bands' supplies they have to offer, in case there's anything that could prove advantageous to own, and foster profitable relations with other traders.

• Prompts:
  1. Guide a meditation with fellow Ashen in order to clear the minds and cleanse the spirits. Construct a make-shift sweat lodge and otherwise lead your fellow packmates along a spiritual journey - just be sure to get consent before using any inebriants.
  2. The border between Cuentista and Bruja is thin. Engage in divination or scrying of any sort at the behest of another Ashen, or gather the materials for a seance.
  3. The Cuentista's ability to weave tales of warning, woe, and revelry is unmatched, and generally takes place about a campfire. Relay these stories to other Ashen, or pass on cultural relevance to a new generation to keep legacies going.

• Prompts:
  1. While hoofstock and horses are not the specialty of the Médico, occasionally Gaucho and Caballisto may reach out for assistance involving injuries befalling the Gang's animals.
  2. Combat - whether serious or for training - is tricky business. Patch up an injured Ashen's wounds or check in with an injured packmate on the mend to ensure their health is coming along smoothly, and monitor carefully for any signs of infection.
  3. Fleas are a well-known vector for all manner of disease and ailments. Administer a flea-killing method to help an itchy Ashen out. Alternatively, aid a sick Ashen with their ailing health and make attempts to bring them around on the mend, or help manage pain in the elderly.

• Prompts:
  1. Tact, social astuteness, and interpersonal communication can often make or break a trade deal. Teach the importance and conduct of these sociopolitical skills to help an aspiring trader become more successful, or otherwise practice this skill.
  2. Socially engage with a stranger - be they a loner, a member of a foreign pack, or someone belonging to a loner band - and garner information with them to discern whether or not these individuals may prove useful allies, or formidable enemies.
  3. Organize a trade venture with the Comerciante to other packs - and, while abroad, attempt to learn the culture and customs of these strange peoples. If possible, get the lay of the land to the best of your abilities.

Tithe and Maintenance: Characters in possession of a Bienestar occupation must maintain their co-rank via tithe in order to keep their occupation. As such, it's expected that once every six months (counted via Calendar Year, in June and December) players must complete a single thread (1000 WC) involving specifically upkeeping/contributing a communal item tied to their occupation's niche or risk losing their occupation.

• Prompts:
  1. Ferry someone across the lake, whether or not you charge a toll is up to you - but be sure to think through the consequences of heckling a fellow Ashen for unreasonable fees!
  2. Carve out a canoe, make a boat or raft, or maintain and repair existing water vehicles or tools therein. Oars need carved, any and all docks need maintained, and even fish nets get holes, over time.
  3. Gather up a companion and hit the lake for a quiet afternoon of fishing - trawl the waters with a net, or cast a line into the water, and bring back your bounty for the Gang to partake!

• Prompts:
  1. The Gang's carts get a lot of use, either with carrying items through the (at times) rough trails of the territory, or dragged through the rough and rugged lands beyond borders. As such, wear and tear is to be expected - refresh and repair the carts or the harnesses and yokes to keep things operational.
  2. Improvements can always be made. With help of the Carpintero or the Herrero, add reinforcements to make a bumpy ride more comfortable or the wagons more sturdy for the road. Replace metal bands lining the wheels, reinforce seats, or create straps to help secure items in the bed.
  3. While small, luperci-run carts are well within the realm of attainable, the utility of such is nigh zero - hoofstock drawn carriages and carts are where it's at. Work with a Gaucho or Caballisto in order to train up animals to pull these land ships to maximize what can be carried!