Carpenter

The Carpenter is a master of shaping the living essence of matter—chiefly wood, though on some worlds the term extends to any artisan who “grows form from grain.” In the agrarian cultures of Lethurèa, carpenters are seen not merely as builders, but as co-creators with the gods of craft. Each joint and beam is a prayer rendered solid.

Among the Valorèin, carpenters hold a dual meaning. Those who shape wood are respected for preserving ancient architectural methods that resist the corrosion of ætheric winds. Yet in myth, “Carpenter” is also a title of divine lineage—one who rebuilds worlds after cataclysm, or who repairs the bodies of the fallen using living timber and spirit sap. Some valorik sects call such figures Soulwrights.

On industrial worlds like Galaxa, carpenters have evolved into material technologists, designing hybrid structures that fuse organic fibers with arcanotech alloys. Their guilds often work alongside Engineers and Runesmiths, bridging physical and metaphysical craft.

Cultural Notes

• The Guild of the Last Grain in Midheim maintains that every plank “remembers the forest.” Their initiates must carve their first work from a single living tree that consents to the felling through ritual.
• Valorèin carpenters bless each finished creation with a Touch of Renewal—a ritual that allegedly extends an object’s spiritual endurance.

Trivia

• In the Book of Sparks (Lethurèan canon), the “First Carpenter” was said to have built the walls between worlds.
• A proverb among the Aenorians states: “The carpenter knows the patience of gods.”