Paradoxical Occupations

Listed by energy:

Complexity:
  • Caerete: a numerologer computer technician.
  • Cursus Publicus: a courier who uses complexity to find the quickest path through multiple destinations.
  • Excelsianist: a numerologer who pilots ships of infinity.
  • Game Designer: a numerologer who invents logic games.
  • Inmensus: a monk of the Infinite.
  • Mathemagician: a derogatory term for numerologers and a mathematician who uses numerology.
  • Metadesigner: a numerologer who creates mathematical art.
  • Metahacker: a hacker who uses complexity to hack the Metanet. - secondary
  • Metamessenger: a digital messenger.
  • Morutehi: a numerologer academic.
  • Muhasib: a numerologer accountant.
  • Numerologer: a mathematician who uses numerology to create complex, diverse effects by using beads and abacuses. - primary
  • Paluruh: a numerologer who seeks the infinite.
  • Prodigal Girl: a maiden-witch numerologer.
  • Quan Ho: a musician whose music is complex beyond comprehension.
Flux:
  • Ahli Sejarah: a bhat who uses flux to alter their singing and verse.
  • Alteror: an orb-wielding esotericist who uses flux to change things. - primary
  • Apus-Apusan: an alteror conman who alters documents after they are signed.
  • Catalyst: a powerful esotericist who can use a small amount of flux to set off a chain of events.
  • Dukun: an alteror who is a shaman and healer.
  • Evolutionist: an alteror scientist who studies how things, especially living things, change.
  • Kecu: an alteror pirate.
  • Pejuang: an alteror warrior whose weapons and armor change as needed.
  • Pemain Gamelan: an alteror musician to make their music constantly change.
  • Pengaduk: an alteror who creates catalyzing chemicals.
  • Synagczy: an alteror analyst who uses flux to predict upcoming changes based on data research.
  • Taral: an alteror clown or jester with no set gender, personality, identity, or outfit.
  • Thukul: an alteror who creates ever-shifting gardens.
  • Tukang Ngapusi: an alteror counterfeiter. Extremely criminalized.
  • Werna Kulit: an alteror who mimics, communicates with, and works with chameleons.
  • Wong Bodho: an alteror clown or jester in shifting motley with wild performances.
  • Wong Sing Ngrancang: an alteror artist whose work never remains the same.
  • Wong Tuwa: an elder among the Pagowaha people who uses flux to weather major changes in their community.
The Law:
  • Golem Maker: one who uses the Law to create golems.
  • Ike Kiyomeru: a lawcaster who keeps a koi pond that generates protections for them.
  • Lawcaster: one who uses scraps of ancient Divine Law to command the Divine. - primary
  • Lnvt: a lawcaster with a contemplation garden.
  • Sagfon: a monk who worships the dead Arbiters.
  • Shatam Sharuh: an organized crime group of ancient lawcasters.
  • Sofer: a scholar of the Law.
Momentum:
  • Achillean: warriors who move with impossible swiftness.
  • Ambulationist: a wandering preacher.
  • Cartographer: one who uses momentum to create exact maps.
  • Dynamicist: a wayfinder who studies dynamics, movement, and physics.
  • Edasimuuja: a merchant vagabond.
  • Lekar: a healer vagabond.
  • Messenger: one who uses momentum to move quickly in order to deliver messages.
  • Mudzidzi: a travelogue writer vagabond.
  • Muimbi: a wandering musician who brings music from all around the world back to their people.
  • Mukoma: an elder among the mutumwa.
  • Muroye: a witch wayfinder.
  • Mutikitivha: a wandering investigator.
  • Muurayi: an assassin vagabond.
  • Nyanduri: an azmari vagabond who works with language via momentum and not the First Language.
  • Pemanah: an archer/rifleman wayfinder
  • Rover: a pirate who has no homebase.
  • Satherian: an elite thief of an order that wields momentum to teleport into places.
  • Tracker: a vagabond ranger who can track anything that moves.
  • Tsoka Gadzira: a wayfinder maker of boots.
  • Vagabond: a wanderer, often criminalized, who uses momentum to keep going, working odd jobs. - primary
  • Wayfinder: an esotericist who uses the power of momentum to speed travels, to find paths, and to teleport. - secondary
  • Waymaker: a wayfinder who creates Waygates.
  • Whiri Gadzira: a wayfinder who makes wheels.
  • Wloczega: a vagabond general entertainer.
Mortal Will:
  • Antidei: a Guardian who investigates the Divines.
  • Eighth Guardian: a Guardian tasked with tending the plants, animals, and fungi used by Guardians, such as their kennels, their herb garden, etc.
  • Eleventh Guardian: a Guardian tasked with the study and teaching of the use of all esoteric energies.
  • Fifth Guardian: a Guardian tasked with investigating incidents of Divine power.
  • First Guardian: the eldest Guardian, tasked with keeping the archives and treasury of the Guardians.
  • Fourth Guardian: a Guardian tasked with assassinating enemies of the group, usually faithful.
  • Guardian of Mortality: someone who believes in the idea that mortals do not need the Divine, that mortality is better off on their own. They wield mortal will, their own rigid determination, as a form of antifaith. This term is for the common Guardians who do not have a special rank or role. - primary
  • Mortalist: a layperson who believes in the philosophy of the Guardians but is not capable of fully wielding mortal will. They are simply more resistant to Divine powers.
  • Last Guardian: the thirteenth Guardian, their leader, elected for life or until recalled/retired.
  • Ninth Guardian: a Guardian tasked with being their messenger and communications expert.
  • Second Guardian:: a Guardian tasked with studying all forms of science and medicine.
  • Seventh Guardian: a Guardian tasked with stealing religious artifacts to keep them out of the hands of the enemies of the Guardians.
  • Six Guardian: a Guardian tasked with maintaining the fleet and stable of the Guardians.
  • Tenth Guardian: a Guardian warrior who trains all Guardians in combat of all forms.
  • Third Guardian: a Guardian woman tasked with addressing the concerns of women and non-men within the group.
  • Twelfth Guardian: a Guardian tasked with repairs, construction, building, smithing, anything needed as an artisan.
Paradox:
  • Trickster: someone who has become one with paradox, and is thus capable of anything. The universe imposes upon them an idiom to limit their powers. - primary
  • Tyvarung: a pirate who sails outside of the reality.
Possibility:
  • Atomic Sapper: a nuclear soldier who specializes in breaking sieges.
  • Autokrator: a leader of cephalans who manages major governmental experiments.
  • Botaner: a botanist who uses both possibility and aetherial energies.
  • Doctor: a scientific healer.
  • Hyperengineer: a hyperscientist who applies their knowledge practically.
  • Hyperscientist: a scientist who uses the energy of possibility to experiment with. - primary
  • Mechanical Infantry: soldiers designed by hyperscientists/engineers.
  • Nuclear Soldier: soldiers who wield possibility in order to harness nuclear forces.
  • Radiologer: a scientist who uses possibility to wield nuclear energies to help heal people via radiology.
  • Stabula: a woman hyperscientist who works in areas usually barred to them in patriarchal societies.
  • Tigbungkag: a hacker hyperscientist.
  • Yalofistis: one who makes vials, beakers, and other glass products that are used by hyperscientists, designed to withstand supernatural experimentation.
Spirit Energy:
  • Nganga: spiritspeakers in Taggarus who have their own unique methods.
  • Spiritcaster: esotericists who communicate with spirits to channel their powers. - primary
  • Spiritseeker: a spiritcaster who seeks out spirits to build insights into their world.
  • Spiritspeaker: spiritcasters who speak to spirits as a matter of faith and worship.
Vonzot:
  • Ahuzorry: a turogzot who heals people's minds by altering their mental systems.
  • Bulgari: a gnomish scop.
  • Degozo: a turogzot con artist who uses their powers to manipulate social systems.
  • Durrit: a turogzot who uses their powers to send messages.
  • Fampitaovana: a turogzot who uses their powers to plan major business/industrial logistics.
  • Gleekeul: a gnomish monk.
  • Gningzot: a turogzot scholar.
  • Junogzii: a netzinog who uses their skills and machines to investigate crimes or failed inventions, the latter being a major issue in gnomish society. A detective.
  • Minugzo: a turogzot performance artist.
  • Nekozog: a turogzot game and puzzle maker.
  • Netzinog: a gnomish parliamentarian.
  • Rodogoz: a technoblader who uses only vonzot to control gnomish mecha-armor.
  • Systems Engineer: a turogzot systems engineer.
  • Turogzot: an esotericist who uses vonzot to create metaphorical and literal Rube Goldberg devices to influence the systems of the world. - primary
  • Vuug: a turogzot gardener.
  • Zodfor: a turogzot train engineer.
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Polyparadoxical Occupations

Those who use multiple forms of paradoxical energy.
  • Azo Ato: a superscientist who uses all forms of paradoxical energy, except perhaps paradox itself.
  • Polenitsa: a witch who uses complexity and vonzot.
  • Technoblader: a warrior who uses complexity, possibility, and vonzot in combination with technology, ranging from guns to jets to mechanical blades.
Topic revision: r3 - 01 May 2022, SallyJaneBlack
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