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'''Title: About Hunters'''

'''Author: Karvath'''

<br>
Background

Magic has long held a
sacred and glorious
position amongst our
people, and is revered
nearly universally amongst
us as the true power in
our world. It quickly
became apparent that
with the prevalence of
magical talent amongst
our people, most regular
warriors would be unable
to make much headway
against magic users. With
this problem in mind, a
special caste of warriors
was trained and
designated as the Hunters
and Huntresses. The job
and task of a Hunter is
to deal with rogue and
dangerous mages, and they
are trained from a young
age in how a mage may
cast a variety of spells,
and how to defeat and
systematically remove a
mages ability to tap into
the void and call forth
magic. It is thanks to
this training that Hunters
are seen as the deadliest
of warriors and the most
dangerous of opponents
for those trained in the
arts of magery. A very
specialized set of
equipment and skills is
passed down to these
Hunters to assist them
in their dangerous task,
but one of the most
unique are their living
weapons, called Stingers.

The Hunters Skills

A Hunter is taught from
a very young age the
arts of stealth and
assassination, as the
easiest way to eliminate
a more powerful enemy is
to do so when they are
caught unawares. In
addition to these skills,
they are also taught hand
to hand, close combat,
unarmed combat, and
acrobatic skills to allow
them to keep fights
confined to ranges that
limit a mages ability to
fight back and
concentrate. It is at
these close quarters that
most Hunters engage
their targets, and they
are absolutely lethal. A
mage who finds themself
engaging a Hunter in
close combat is generally
fighting a losing fight,
and rarely manages to
last longer than a few
brief moments.

The Hunters Equipment

Hunters carry with them
an array of useful tools
in defeating mages, among
them everything from
basic tools such as rope,
blindfolds, daggers, and
gags to more exotic and
rare items such as
blinding powder and
silencing powder. These
last are some of the
most useful but also
most difficult to replace
items due to the scarcity
of their components.
Their use can swiftly
cause a mage to be
rendered incapable of even
the lowliest of cantrips,
as the vast majority of
spells require a spoken
component and the ability
to aim at the target.
Since the advent of the
Hunters as a warrior
caste, mages have done
their best to attempt to
combat the way that
Hunters prey on their
weaknesses, and some
spells have been fashioned
that require only
gestures, but these spells
have limited strength and
usage, and there is no
known defense against the
most potent of the
Hunters weapons... the
living weapons known as
Stingers.

The Living Weapons,
Stingers

Stingers were first
discovered in the
wilderness of Ishpuria in
days long past, and their
abilities seem to be
unique amongst creatures.
Wild Stingers are
snakelike creatures
covered in venomous barbs
that they can fire or
propel at their prey. They
seem to have thrived in
Ishpuria by preying on
magic using creatures
that were difficult to be
predated upon by almost
any other creature thanks
to the effect of their
unique venom coating the
barbs on their bodies... it
has the ability to sap a
mages ability to reach
into the void and pull
forth magic. The venom is
disorienting and nauseating
as well, causing even non
magic users to be sent
reeling from their effects
and left as easy prey
for the main body of the
creature. A Wild Stinger
can be sated for weeks
on a creature the size
of a gazer larva, or
longer with larger prey.
It also seems to derive
some of its nutrition
from the magical prowess
of its prey in a way
that is still not
understood. Hunters keep
their Stingers fed on a
diet of beetles, insects,
and the occasional imp.
It was under the guidance
of the Matriarchs
themselves that the first
of the Wild Stingers was
converted into a weapon
for the Hunters. Since
that occurrence, it has
been considered the mark
of a true Hunter to be
in possession of one of
the living weapons, and
makes it nigh impossible
to impersonate someone in
the Hunter caste. Each
living weapon forms a
bond with the Hunter who
uses it and it is not
unheard of for Stingers
that lose their Hunter to
become feral and have to
be put down.
<br>

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