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Tinkering
The noble art of making something, anything, out of something lesser.
Starting off
Any single person with some time and dedication can begin upon this noble profession, and have some luck with making tools. Shovels, rakes, and other things that the farmers will need. Useful things for all! All you need to do is sit down, find yourself some good materials describing how the tools on the workbench are to be used, and you can begin working on your very own schematics. That is all that's required to begin making something useful. And, of course, few pieces of junk metal that none else would value, some time, and a work station. Maybe some orc teeth.
Perhaps some minor gadgets for self defense, such as grenades. Of course, these deadlier things will require a more practiced tinkerer. Someone with a steady hand, and an understanding of how to make explosives. After all, all that is required is some orc teeth and some explosives. However, do remember, practice with some simpler things before you work on these things - blowing your hands off would never please anyone.
Once the craftsman has a steady enough hand and the basic understanding of the craft, all the above can be made, and much more! Siege weaponry, spiked barricades.
A schematic and some time!
Advanced work
Once a tinkerer has found their hand is steady enough, and their understanding has grown well enough on how these base materials might be utilized to create functional tools and equipment, that is when the truly amazing things begin.
Ancient technology, brought together with modern tinkering. Seek old materials used by the sibilant, from when they ruled these lands! Perhaps not the most prestigious of items to make, however they certainly knew how to work with acid and poison.
Technology that might is even older than even the sibilants empire, found in ancient ruins, that can only be put back together with the steadiest of hands. This can be worked on, for the advanced tinkerer. Magical artifacts that have not seen the light of day in centuries, put together today with modern technology!
Now, on to what might be the most interesting part, innovatively using alien technology and creatures from some far off, strange plane, to create the wonders of today. The rest of this little book will focus upon this, and questions surrounding it.
Innovation through strange alien objects
Strange alien objects. Magical in nature. These can be used by the proficient tinkerer to create true wonders. A strange fleshy mass. Who would think to work with these?
They hold strange properties. If used in the right way, a truly skilled tinkerer might be capable of imbuing a weapon with them, and through this, the wielder of the weapon can then access the innate powers of these alien beings, and these powers can be quite impressive. Even a person who has never in their life cast a spell could suddenly be capable of dominating another person's mind, with these items.
Is this strange fleshy mass a piece of an alien creature that we crudely work into our weapons, or is it a piece of their technology?
Other ways that these strange objects have been used. A necklace made with these, in the correct way, will harden the skin of the wearer while dulling their mind. A dangerous but potentially quite powerful trinket. When used with the bow string, it allows the arrows fired to penetrate certain magical protection.
What are these creatures, that we either borrow technology from, or use in our very own technology? Where are they from?
What other innovations will be found when experimenting further upon these objects? What other problems can they solve? Are they any danger to us tinkerers, or the wielders of them? These, and many more questions must be answered. For now, perhaps it is simply best to experiment further with caution.
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