Unifier

A unifier works to generate the energy of euergasia ("good work") by uniting workers and getting them to work for themselves, connecting great networks of workers. This energy is then wielded by the workers collectively to protect themselves from exploitation, oppression, and other acts of terror from the parasite class.

Good Work

All work done in groups generates euergasia. Most of the time, it's a minimal amount, and it goes away quickly as the work ends or the group divides itself. But if directed, guided, and carefully driven, it will build upon itself until the group at the core of it is invincible, temporarily (until the euergasia is used up). Euergasia is a radiant form of mansam, meaning it generates within the bodies and muscles of the workers themselves.

Working alone does not generate euergasia, and working in a group that is divided by internal conflicts generates less than it would otherwise. Therefore, a unifier not only performs the work at hand, but works to unite the group. Work that generates euergasia must be work that produces something of value, and it must be collective. The classic examples are factories and platoons:

There are three factories, all of them making shoes. In the first, each worker makes a pair of shoes themselves, as many as they can throughout the day. In the second, the workers each make part of the shoe, putting it all together piece by piece. In the third, machines make the shoes and the workers tend the machines. The first factory creates a little bit of euergasia, because it is many people engaged in the same kind of work at once. In the second, it generates a lot of euergasia, because it is many people engaged in one work, period. In the third, the workers are split up and minimized, and the machines keep them from generating euergasia - unless they find ways to work together on the machines. All of them lose euergasia, because the value of their work is stolen by a boss.

Then, there is a platoon. The platoon engages in three assignments. In the first, they attack the enemy, killing them. In the second, they build a bridge. In the third, they transport materials. The first group generates no euergasia, as the killing of the enemy does not generate value. If the attack is one of defiance or defense, other celestial energies may be produced. In the second, much euergasia is generated, as a bridge has great value, even if it is used for bad purposes. In the third, the group generates a little bit of euergasia if and only if the materials they transport have some euergasia from its creation. The act of transporting it will generate some value by moving it where it is needed, but it does not create anything new.

Once even a little bit of euergasia is generated, a unifier is able to keep building it up by bringing the workers closer together and getting them to work on something larger (a union, organizing committee, or other grouping that works to benefit workers). If they can unite their group with other groups, the euergasia produced becomes exponentially greater. The main example is a shipping company:

There is a shipping company. In the first month, workers ship materials from one city to another, generating a little bit of euergasia from that already created, but losing it to a boss. In the second month, the workers have organized, and they find ways to turn the shipping process into a single work, generating more euergasia and keeping more of it. In the third month, the workers have united with workers from other shipping companies, creating a massive source of euergasia as their labor unites into a single unit, which the bosses cannot steal.

And finally, the most euergasia is generated when mass numbers of workers work for themselves and other works.

The same shipping company is now heavily unionized, in an alliance of unionized workers around the world. The shipping company gets a contract to deliver arms to a distant city. There are longshoremen unloading the ships. Workers in the first city organize and demand the company reject the contract; workers in the other city organize and refuse to offload ships. These acts of solidarity unite to create massive amounts of euergasia.

However, even smaller acts of solidarity can generate euergasia:

The factory workers hear about the platoon, which is fighting soldiers from their own city. The platoon is fighting for their own freedom. The factory workers join together to stop producing shoes for their own military. Though this is not done on a massive scale, it still connects the factory workers and the platoon, generating euergasia. Even though they are not to the scale necessary to keep all the euergasia for themselves, they are able to send most of it to the platoon before bosses can take it.

Organizing

The main task of the unifier is to organize the workers so that they can unite in their work and consciously generate euergasia. Organizing requires everything from clandestine conversations with other workers to urging acts of defiance to political discussions to study groups to speeches to debates to campaigns for unionization and demands against the bosses. It is all-consuming and often gets unifiers fired, killed, slandered, or otherwise attacked. This is not about leading, necessarily, or coercion, but about inspiring, discussing, convincing, showing the other workers that they are exploited and oppressed and must fight back, and how to do it.

Unifying and Division

Once enough workers are organized, they must begin to reorder the work they do so that it is generative. This highly varies by their labor, but the goal is to make their work internally diversified but unified in purpose, and to make sure it creates something for the good of all. Ultimately, the goal is to exclude the bosses from the value generated, but this is often a longer term goal. Wresting power from the bosses is critical, but it is often done bit by bit.

Solidarity

Once enough of the workers are organized, they can also begin making sure they are acting in solidarity with workers and others fighting oppression. This can be as simple as supporting other striking workers or as complex as sabotaging arms shipments or staging prisonbreaks. It eventually leads to open rebellion against the ruling class.

The Power of Unity

Once enough euergasia has been produced and kept by the workers, they will sense it in their own bodies, and they will be able to transfer it among themselves.

Continual Work

Euergasia can be wielded to produce more euergasia. Once workers are organized and begin to produce it, once they have enough of it kept away from the bosses, they can begin to channel the euergasia into themselves or others. Sometimes, if they need a lot of euergasia, they will create a feedback loop to energize themselves by using some of the euergasia to give themselves the power and energy to keep working without rest. This is done usually to empower a few workers whose continued work is not for the bosses, but for organizing other workers or acts of solidarity. In other words, some of the euergasia is often channeled into unifiers.

Wielding Euergasia

To wield euergasia, a majority the workers must gather and decide how it will be used. No single worker can channel it out of the original group who generated it. This can only be done if all of the workers give their euergasia to a single worker, or enough give their power to a small group of workers, etc. They must all agree to use the euergasia externally and vote upon who will use it by touching them to give them the power. Even then, if the one who has it tries to use it in a way the group disapproves of, it will fail.

Common uses of euergasia include

• Sharing strength and energy.
• Providing protection to other workers from physical attacks.
• Making up for lack of food for striking workers.
• Making a worker engaged in an act of defiance or resistance temporarily invincible.
• Shielding workers from Drenante.
• Shielding workers from other forms of infernal essence.
• Uniting workers such that any attack on them is diffused amongst them all (i.e., a wound is spread out among a dozen people and thus is less than a flesh wound).
• Channeling it into labor that will produce more euergasia or create something useful for all involved.
• Sending to those engaged in struggle against the bosses elsewhere via a relay as an act of solidarity.

Tools

Euergasia can also be channeled into tools, machinery, and anything workers use in their craft to make them better in any way related to their purpose. For instance, a hammer could be made stronger or easier to swing. A loom could be made safer. And so on.

Betrayals

Any worker within a euergasian union who betrays the union will weaken the whole. If a single worker uses their powers selfishly or tries to use it against the will of the workers, though it will fail, it will also weaken the whole unit and let the bosses steal their power. If workers betray each other in other ways - squealing to the bosses, scabbing, fighting amongst themselves, etc. - it will weaken them all.

Exploitation

When an exploiter (boss) takes euergasia (usually not consciously) from workers, it becomes Drenante. When it is taken consciously, the boss is using the arts of the schiavista. Subconscious parasitism usually doesn't become make the boss very powerful, as the workers are not united enough to make a useful amount of euergasia. Clever parasites try to get the maximum parasitic energy produced while finding ways to keep the workers from realizing their power.

Variations

Many variations include specializations for different jobs:

• Caretaker: a unifier who is a witch-caretaker among domestic laborers of all genders.
• Deonjida: a warrior who coordinates unified siege assaults.
• Gisulja: a unifier amongst lab techs and scientists.
• Gong-yega: Uruoese crafter unifiers.
• Guǎnjiā: an elected worker council leader who is a unifier in Unbul
• Herring fisher: a unifier amongst herring fishers and other fisherfolk.
• Jeong-wonsa: a Uruoese gardener unifier.
• Jìzhě: a unifier among Unbulese journalists.
• Joh-eun siin: a unifier from Uruo amongst bards, aqyn, azmaris, bhats.
• Jeyongleong: an Uruoese unifier who works with delivery workers, postal workers, messengers, couriers, speakers, and so on. They are very good orators.
• Kenneler: a unifier who works with dogs, who also produce euergasia.
• Leinjeo: a unifier amongpark rangers, environmental wardens, bear friends.
• Qishè shǒu: mounted archers who unify their attacks.
• Rowbessown: musicians who unify their audience.
• Samuwon: a unifier among office or retail workers.
• Seonsarngnim: a unifier among teachers, libarians, scribes, or other scholars.
• Seon-won: a unifier among sailors and transport workers.
• Sheng qi: a martial art based on unified action.
• Wijoja: Uruoese counterfeiters who target imperial countries to harm their economies.

Skills

The skills of a unifier vary greatly by their labor, but some common skills for organizing are

• Politics
• Worker theory
• Secret codes
• Courage
• Oratory
• Conversational skills

Stats

Modifiers from base of nation/species:

PRO /
ATH /
STR +1
AWA +1
WIL +2
STH +1
PRS +2