Nommic Occupations

Listed by energy:

Emotional Resonance:
  • Arquere: an ennead whose strings are attached to a bow. An ennead archer.
  • Caballero: a knight whose armor and weapons are empowered by emotional resonance.
  • Cazador: a hunter bonded to the landscape via emotional resonance.
  • Cruitire: a claireseoir whose harp strings play emotions.
  • Descubridor: an ennead who researches emotional connections for their writing.
  • Ennead: an esotericist who controls emotional resonance using specail string figures. - primary
  • Etape: an ennead actor.
  • Firer: an ennead leader of people.
  • Heartcaster: one who draws upon all forms of emotional resonance (including those influenced by other kinds of energy) in using heart magic.
  • Jaden: an ennead gardener; one who can string the emotions of plants.
  • Jinete: a caballero whose emotional bond is to their steed.
  • Kaihanga Aho: an ennead artist.
  • Lam Dlo: an ennead pirate.
  • Listener: an ennead witch who mostly just listens to people's troubles.
  • Mete Ve: an ennead glassblower or glass-setter.
  • Monja: a nun who empathically bonds to the Divine.
  • Psychologer: an ennead emotional healer.
  • Vate: a bard who wields emotional resonance.
  • Vendedor: an ennead who works as a trader or seller.
  • Viajero: an ennead shipmaster.
Mijjit:
  • Behanem: a wisin who specializes in women's needs.
  • Bosqinchi: a wisin who uses their powers to become a bandit.
  • Chymosian: a physician of humors.
  • Burrnesha: a "sworn virgin" who rejects their own gender in favor of property rights; often makes a vow upon their own body.
  • Eji: a professional wrestler, one who performs for a crowd.
  • Gizoba: an elder wisin.
  • Haruspex: one who reads the future in viscera.
  • Hurler: a wrestler who turns their body into a projectile weapon.
  • Molsem: a ranger who uses mijjit, mansam, and other bodily powers to become a better hunter, often taking animalistic features (their name literally means "wolf" due to this practice).
  • Namito: a wisin runner.
  • Nodam: a shaman attuned to their body.
  • Pakholigan: a wisin who uses their body as a musical instrument.
  • Preformationist: one who creates homunculi.
  • Somandricist: one who uses all forms of mijjit, including sometimes non-nommic forms.
  • Wisin: one who practices exercises that invoke mijjit, mansam, and other bodily powers in order to control their own body. A cross between an athlete, trainer, healer, and esotericist. - primary
  • Wrestler: one who wields mijjit and mansam to turn their bodies into weapons.
Psionic Energy:
  • Baiulus: a telekine who carries Psyaran airships.
  • Bestial Cor: heart of the beast, an extremely rare psionicist who can read the minds of animals.
  • Cerebral: a powerful wielder of psionics who can use all forms of psionic energy, including non-nommic forms.
  • Circumcontus: a psionicist who plays the theremin with their mind.
  • Consilium: one whose mind connects to the Divine.
  • Dirunarius: a psionicist secret policeman.
  • Liberligans: one who uses psionic energy to bind books, making them easier to learn from.
  • Mai Tunani: a psionicist writer who uses their powers to make their works more understandable.
  • Matermens: a psionic crone who protects the parts of the hive mind only women are allowed in.
  • Mentat: a psionicist spy.
  • Mentologer: a psionicist teacher.
  • Militus: a soldier of Psyara bound to the hive mind.
  • Menstriae: an esotericist who learns to wield psionic powers. - primary
  • Psychologer: a psionicist therapist and healer.
  • Pullulant: a psionicist contemplation gardener.
  • Telekine: one who focuses on the use of telekinesis specifically, using it to do anything from arts and crafts to war.
  • Telepath: one who focuses on telepathy, such that they can use it over great distances.
  • Upplysingafulltrui: a psionicist working for communications, media, or technology companies.
  • Vater: the one who guides the hive mind of Psyara.
Soul Energy:
  • Fa'amalolo: a sorcerer who mends souls.
  • Faipese: a sorcerer who chants into meditative trances.
  • Juuncherep: one whose soul binds to the great tortoises of the islands.
  • Metaphysicist: a soul scientist.
  • Neishe: sohei archers.
  • Poto Tagata: a sage who communes with the Divine.
  • Sage: one who wields all forms of soul energy, including non-nommic varieties.
  • Sohei: a monk attuned to their soul.
  • Sorcerer: an esotericist who can channel the power of their own souls. - primary
  • Sorceress: an oft-criminalized female sorcerer.
  • Sweeper: a sorcerer who meditates by sweeping the floors. Power in humility.
  • Tagata Asiasi: a sorcerer detective who works in similar ways to an intuitive.
  • Tagata Poto: a sorcerer scholar.
  • Toeaina: an elder who uses soul energy to help guide their people.
  • Totagara: a sorcerer with a contemplation garden.
  • Tusisolo: a sorcerer poet.
  • Uchakka: a sorcerer who steals from the souls of others.
True Names: these are technically polynommic, as True Names combine the above energies.
  • Ixht': a shaman who explores True Names.
  • Manontany: one who makes the Puzzle of Names.
  • Matagati Kanya: a witch who can see True Names.
  • Mender: one who mends Names.
  • Namecaster: one who wields the full power of True Names by invoking them. - primary
  • Sakmal: an assassin who kills by striking one's Name.
  • Savan: one who keeps True Names in an archive, trying to construct the Book of Names.
  • Sogende: a namecaster who seeks answers to profound mysteries.
  • Tononkalo: a namecaster bard.
  • Zhandouji: a warrior-monk attuned to theri True Name.
Topic revision: r3 - 01 Jul 2023, SallyJaneBlack
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