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Nommic Occupations

Wranglers

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Nommic Artisans

Fitxagilea
One who turns True Names into paper so that they can be invoked.

Kushavan
A potter who uses bodily humors to wet the clay and other materials, thus creating pots that have properties that can affect bodies or alter substances within them to alter the balance of humors.

Liberligans
A bookbinder who uses psionic energy to make the books easier to understand.

Mete Ve
An ennead who imbues glass with emotion such that it reveals emotional currents.

Oggoshar
A bonecaster who creates armor from bone.

Preformationist
A user of mijjit who creates homunculi.

Warqad-Sameeyaha
An ennead who creates paper that holds emotional resonance.

Artists

NommicArtists

Kaihanga Aho
An ennead who uses their powers to create works of art that contain emotional resonance.

Telekine
A psionicist who uses telekinesis to shape sculptures.

Botanicists

Nommic Botanicists

Jaden
One who grows an empathic garden.

Pullulant
One who tends a psionic garden.

Totagara
A sorcerer with a contemplation garden.

Cooks

Nommic Cooks

Nodatekwkwat
A wisin who uses their powers to get the most out of meat and other foods.

Criminals

Nommic Criminals

Nommic criminals use various forms of nommos in their activities.

Nommic Assassins

Those who deal in death.

Sakmal
An assassin who uses True Names to kill others, capturing theirs.

Nommic Bandits

Robbers by violence, usually outside of urban areas.

Bosqinchi
A wisin who strengthens their body for banditry.

Nommic Pirates

Robbers of the high seas, or sands, skies, or space. Ship-based robbers or hijackers.

Lam Dlo
An ennead who works as a pirate.

Nommic Spies

Those who gather or steal information, usually for a government or corporation, but sometimes freelance.

Mentat
A psionicist who uses stealthy telepathy and conscious sending to spy on others.

Nommic Thieves

Those who engage in interpersonal theft, burglary, or other forms of stealing, usually while avoiding violent confrontation.

Uchakka
A sorcerer who uses their powers to steal from the souls of others.

Nommic Counterfeiters

Nommic Organized Crime

Nommic Pirates

Nommic Revolutionaries

Nommic White Collar Criminals

Entertainers

Nommic Entertainers

Nommic Athletes

Eji (inapari) - definitive athletes
A professional wrestler from western Palhur who uses mijjit in their athletic performances.

Nommic Bards

Cycnus
A Psyaran bard.

Pa'u
An aqyn who sings praises from the soul.

Tononkalo
A namecaster bard.

Vate
A bard who wields emotional resonance.

Nommic Carnival Workers

From the Agsaksakay (igorot) people of Vada'dar, a special kind of carnival where most of the users wield nommos.

Agbasbasa
One who uses psionic energy to read minds at a carnival, sideshow, or fair.

Buo
A performer who uses True Names to know things about the audience and

Ipusipos
One who uses mijjit to contort their body.

Makin-Uneg a Maysa
A sorcerer who creates different effects, depending on the soul of the individual, for the sideshow.

Pannakipagrikna
One who uses emotional resonance to draw people into games or stalls.

Nommic Celebrities

Physiquere
A celebrity who uses mijjit to amke their body fit the standards of popular culture.

Sentimentiere
A celebrity who uses emotional resonance to draw power from crowds or viewers.

Nommic Circus Performers

Vaso
A tumbler or acrobat who uses mijjit.

Nommic Dancers

Penari
A southern Island Bridge practice of using emotional resonance in dance performances.

Siva
A sorcerer who uses dance to connect to their soul in order to be able draw from it.

Thuqhuri
An eastern Palhuric dancer who uses mijjit to become better at their art.

Nommic Fools

Avivēki
A subcontinental Dabusenese jester whose japes and performances draw from the power of their True Name. Through their arts, they can speak the True Name of any they can perceive.

Kelesoo
A western Dabusenese jester who uses sorcery in their performances. Extremely rare and usually third gender.

Txantxalari
A western Jesenyan clown in the mountains who uses emotional resonance in their performances.

Vazivazy
A Basurian clown who uses mijjit to improve their performances.

Nommic Games Makers

There are nine esoteric Puzzles that are said to hold the secret to the Book of Names: the Puzzles of Thoughts, Bloods, Bones, Hearts, Souls, Names, Memories, Elements, and Powers (celestial or infernal energies). Seven of those are nommic in nature:

Chornek
A bonecaster who makes games and puzzles from bones.

Khaghatsvogh
A western Dabusenese puzzle maker who uses emotional resonance to imbue it with power.

Ludusite
A psionicist who creates puzzles with psionic energy.

Manontany
A puzzle maker who works with True Names.

Papwategan
A wisin who creates games and puzzles out of exercises.

Pukllaq
A bloodcaster concerned with the Puzzle of Bloods.

Tagata Taalo
A sorcerer who creates games and puzzles to guide meditation and internal analysis.

Togloomchin
One who guides a game of ancestral memory in pursuit of the Puzzle of Memories.

Nommic Screen Entertainers

Relatoris
One who uses psionic energy through television.

Nommic Sex Workers

Ahuianiti
A central Palhuric sex worker who uses mijjit to enhance their work.

Qedesha
A sacred sex worker among the ancient peoples of Mahad who uses emotional resonance to honor Sash-levavevs, the Goddess of Nine Hearts.

Nommic Stage Entertainers

Etape
A Galdish actor who learns to use emotional resonance in their performances.

Naksaaedng
A northeastern Dabusenese actor who uses soul energy to make their performances more powerful.

Verto
A psionicist who does oratory only via psionics.

Wsisekw
An actor who uses mijjit to enhance their physical performance. Often comedic, for slapstick purposes.

Nommic Street Entertainers

Ekiwumbe
A street performer who has insights into True Names.

Sleeping Philosopher
A sorcerer who resorts to answering questions on the street to raise money.

Nommic Wordsmiths

Mai Tunani (kinyarwanda)
A kind of writer common in central Taggarus known for using psionic energy to make their fictional writings more understandable.

Namescribe
A writer who uses True Names to empower their fiction or verse.

Tusisolo
A sorcerer from the Island Bridge who uses their powers to infuse their own soul into their poetry.

Ýazyjy
A poet who imbues emotional resonance into their words.

Nommic Athletes

Nommic Bards

Nommic Carnival Workers

Nommic Celebrities

Nommic Circus Performers

Nommic Dancers

Nommic Fools

Nommic Games Makers

Nommic Screen Entertainers

Nommic Sex Workers

Nommic Stage Entertainers

Nommic Street Entertainers

Nommic Wordsmiths

Esotericists

Nommic Esotericists

Bloodcaster - primary blood energy user
A user of blood energy, rather than quaestus or some other aligned form of blood.

Cerebral
A user of all forms of psionic energy, including dream energy, vonzot, stravomenos, Aemoa, and euskepsia.

Ennead - primary emotional resonance user
Sometimes called stringers, enneads use string figures (like a cat's cradle) to invoke different emotions that they then wield to influence emotional resonance.

Haruspex - primary aifaellam user
Those who interpret aifaellam to read the future.

Heartcaster
Those who use all forms of heart magic, including emotional resonance, banaru, desperation, and euphoria. They are also known to wield dumaqu, feirua, baleblood, iremia, thorn energy, Peccatum, Tenyocan, uafas, hollow energy, unfugl, hegnh, and yahas. It is not possible to wield Elysian essence, but they study it.

Namecaster - primary True Names user
Wielders of True Names, those who invoke the raw power of nommos to command reality.

Menstriae - primary psionic energy user
One who, unlike a psionist, learns to use psionic energy through special metallic headbands and concentration.

Sage
Those who wield all forms of soul energy, including ujjval aatma and Peccatum.

Somandricist
Those who use all forms of body magic: mijjit, mansam, blood energy, aifaellam, Raesian energy, and humors, including all of the subcategories that include other kinds of energies (all forms of ashar, Sterisi, euergasia, curacion, vile energy, baleblood, quaestus, and sometimes pravum).

Sorcerer - primary soul energy user
Users of soul energy to channel their own immortal being into powerful magic via special rods.

Wisin - primary mijjit and mansam user
Those who practice esoteric exercises to invoke mijjit and mansam, the energies of the body and muscles, that allow them to control their own bodily growth and transformations.

Faithful

Nommic Faithful

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Nommic Beatificers

Those who experience or spread Divine ecstasy.

Faataunuuina
One whose soul is filled with Divine guidance.

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Nommic Cultists

Members of a smaller religious group focused on an individual leader or small group of leaders who maintain strict control.

Bearer of God
A member of a cult devoted to the mortal body as a reflection of the Divine.

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Nommic Gurus

A mentor, guide, and teacher of an eastern faith.

Consilium
A psionicist who thinks only of god.

Poto Tagata
A sage who communes with their soul energy so perfectly they see Divinity.

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Nommic Monks

Ascetics who practice their faith in small communities and take profound vows.

Neishe
Monks who are so attuned to their soul energy that they can fire arrows with their eyes closed.

Sohei
Warrior monks who are attuned to their soul energy.

Nommic Nuns

Women who live in small, isolated communities, sometimes with specific tasks, taking profound vows of worship.

Monja
A nun who uses emotional resonance to feel closer to the Divine.

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Nommic Plauditors

Those who praise the Divines.

Heartlifter
One who sings praises from the bottom of their hearts, from the depth of their emotional well.

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Nommic Preceptors

Those who teach religion and read the words of the Divines.

Magister
One who teaches the words of the Divine via psionic energy.

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Nommic Prophets

Those who speak the will of the Divines. Messengers, speakers, and foretellers of the Divine.

Mpaminany
One who views the Book of Names to see the Divine and speak their will.

Nommic Shamans

Those who are conduits to the spirits, the Divines, and the ancestors.

Ixht' (tlingit)
A shaman from southern Palhur who explores the component parts of a True Name.

Nodam
A shaman in western Palhur who is attuned to their body.

Shaman - primary ancestral memory user / definitive shamans
True shamans. Those who wield ancestral memory and only ancestral memory.

Gamblers

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Healers

Nommic Healers

Chymosian - primary humors user
A physician who uses the energy of humors to heal people.

Fa'amalolo
A sorcerer who specializes in fixing souls.

Mender
A user of True Names who can heal others.

Psychologer
A therapist who uses emotional resonance and/or psionic energy.

Wisin
See nommic esotericists. They can use mijjit and mansam to heal.

Investigators

Nommic Investigators

Descubridor
A journalist who uses emotional resonance to imbue their writing with power.

Dirunarius
A psionicist investigator who uses their mind-reading powers to find culprits. Often secret police.

Sogende
A namecaster who seeks answers to profound mysteries.

Tagata Asiasi
A detective who uses meditative arts to seek answers, often similar to an intuitive.

Laborers

Nommic Laborers

Mlikakan
Someone who engages in various forms of manual laborer by wielding mijjit to do so.

Sweeper
One whose meditative connection to soul energy comes from the simple act of sweeping.

Leadership

Nommic Leadership

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Nommic Elders

Leaders of classless communities or very early class-based communities. Sometimes elected, always chosen for their leadership skill, wisdom, and experience.

Firer (yiddish)
A leader who uses ennealogy to understand and guide their people.

Gizoba
An elder wisin.

Toeaina
An elder of the southern Island Bridge who uses soul energy to gain insight and wisdom.

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Nommic Hierarchs

Those who control a complicated governmental structure based on rank and authority under capitalism without any semblance of electoral process.

Vater
Ruler of Psyara.

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Nommic Administrators

Nommic Elected Officials

Nommic Military Officers

Nommic Nobles

Nommic Oligarchs

Nommic Parliamentarians

Nommic Royals

Nommic Theocrats

Messengers

Nommic Messengers

Namito
One who uses mijjit and mansam to run great distances.

Telepath
One who uses telepathy to send messages.

Musicians

Nommic Musicians

Cruitire
A Lyrillan harpist whose music generates and weaves emotional resonance.

Circumcontus
A psionicist theremin player.

Faipese
A sorcerer whose primary method of connecting to their soul is through chanting.

Pakholigan
A wisin who uses their own body as a percussion instrument.

Professionals

Nommic Professionals

Burrnesha
A "sworn virgin" in Ranu (a person assigned female at birth who foreswears sex in order to be seen as and accepted as a man) who has gained rights to property. They begin to develop into a new physical gender presentation because of mijjit.

Upplysingafulltrui
A communications worker who uses psionic energy.

Vendedor
A salesperson who uses emotional resonance to help make sales.

Rangers

Nommic Rangers

Cazador
Hunters from Danuo who use emotional resonance to bond with the landscape and animals around them.

Molsem
Literally "wolf", one who uses mijjit and mansam to make themselves more capable of hunting.

Scientists

Nommic Scientists

Anatomer
A scientist of the body who uses body energies to complement their work.

Chymosian
See nommic esotericists.

Metaphysicist
A user of soul energy to study metaphysics.

Psychologer
See nommic healers.

Menstriae
See nommic esotericists.

Scholars

Nommic Scholars

Mentologer - definitive scholars
A psionic scribe, scholar, and archivist.

Savan
A keeper of True Names who believes if they collect enough, they will (re)create the Book of Names.

Tagata Poto
A sorcerer archivist and librarian and scribe.

Tahawals

Nommic Tahawals

Kelesoo
A western Dabusenese jester who uses sorcery in their performances. Extremely rare and usually third gender.

Transporters

Nommic Land Transporters

Trains, wagons, cars, and so on, but not riders.

Bearer
One who uses mijjit to have the strength of body to carry others over long distances.

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Nommic Planar Transporters

Teleporters, those who move to other realms of being.

Soulbearer
A sorcerer who uses their power to open gates to other realms.

Nommic Riders

Those who ride a living thing, regardless of terrain.

Tuurai
A shaman of the steppes whose ancestors guide them and their horses.

Nommic Sky Transporters

Ships in the sky, planes and hot air balloons, and more.

Baiulus
A telekine who carries Psyaran ships.

Nommic Space Transporters

Those who travel through outer space via ships of any kind.

Tantsambo
A Namecaster whose power can command ships to travel amongst the stars.

Nommic Underground Transporters

Underground transportation, including subway trains, underground lifts, and special tunnels.

Blood Guide
A bloodcaster who uses their powers to mark underground passages to guide others to safety.

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Nommic Water Transporters

On the surface of the sea, lakes, or rivers. Does not include pirates.

Viajero
An ennead who guides a ship with their emotional resonance.

Nommic Land Transporters

Nommic Multiscape Transporters

Nommic Planar Transporters

Nommic Riders

Nommic Sky Transporters

Nommic Space Transporters

Nommic Underground Transporters

Nommic Undersea Transporters

Nommic Water Transporters

Warriors

Nommic Warriors

Nommic Heavy Warriors

Warriors in heavy armor or with heavy weaponry. Often in militaries. Knights.

Caballero
Knights whose armor is empowered by emotional resonance.

Nommic Martial Artists

Not always unarmed combat, but often.

Neishe
Monks who are so attuned to their soul energy that they can fire arrows with their eyes closed.

Sohei
Warrior monks who are attuned to their soul energy.

Wrestler
Wrestling by using mijjit and mansam to make the body much stronger.

Zhandouji
Warrior monks who wield True Names and become one with all.

Nommic Melee Warriors

Distinguished from heavy warriors in that their armor is either lighter or that it is not definitive to their combat style. Common warriors.

Telekine
Psionic warriors who specialize in wielding weapons with their mind with psionic energy.

Nommic Military

Warriors who only exist in the context of an official military.

Militus
Infantry of Psyara with a connected consciousness, a hive-minded soldier.

Nommic Mounted Warriors

Some are cavalry, others simply from mounted cultures, or simply defined by their use of a steed or vehicle.

Jinete
A warrior who has an emotional connection to their steed.

Nommic Ranged Warriors

Thrown spears, javelins, darts; slings; archers; arbalists; riflemen and gunslingers. Anything except artillery and siege engines.

Arquere
Archers who draw power from their emotional resonance to empower their shots.

Hurler
Warriors who use mijjit (and mansam) to make their bodies weapons that they can fling at people.

Nommic Siege Warriors

Siege engines and artillery.

Msakwat
Users of mijjit and mansam who mold their bodies to better use artillery and siege equipment.

Nommic Heavy Warriors

Nommic Martial Artists

Nommic Melee Warriors

Nommic Military

Nommic Mounted Warriors

Nommic Ranged Warriors

Nommic Siege Warriors

Matermens
One of the psionist women who protect the parts of the hive mind that only women are allowed in.

Nommic Crones

Sorceress
An often-forbidden female sorcerer.

Nommic Occupations By Energy

By Occupation Type: Wranglers . Artisans . Artists . Botanicists . Criminals . Entertainers . Esotericists . Faithful . Healers . Investigators . Leadership . Messengers . Musicians . Professionals . Rangers . Scholars . Scientists . Transporters . Warriors . Witches .

By Energy Type: Aetherial Occupations . Ambrosial Occupations . Celestial Occupations . Infernal Occupations . Mundane Occupations . Nommic Occupations . Paradoxical Occupations . Poioumenonic Occupations . Polyesoteric Occupations . Shebvic Occupations .

By Energy: Aetherial Occupations by Energy . Ambrosial Occupations by Energy . Celestial Occupations by Energy . Infernal Occupations by Energy . Nommic Occupations by Energy . Paradoxical Occupations by Energy . Poioumenonic Occupations by Energy . Polyesoteric Occupations by Energy . Shebvic Occupations by Energy .

By Type: Aetherial Occupations by Type . Ambrosial Occupations by Type . Celestial Occupations by Type . Infernal Occupations by Type . Nommic Occupations by Type . Paradoxical Occupations by Type . Poioumenonic Occupations by Type . Polyesoteric Occupations by Type . Shebvic Occupations by Type .

Topic revision: r7 - 28 Jun 2023, SallyJaneBlack

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