More crystals for the gatherers...

CRYSTAL GATHERER (#14/28, #45/365) [POT]

SKILL: 8

STAMINA : 7

ATTACKS: 1

WEAPON: Pincer-Fist

ARMOUR: None

DAMAGE MODIFIER: None

HABITAT: Mountains, Seas

NUMBER ENCOUNTERED: 1-2

TYPE: Humanoid

REACTION: Neutral

INTELLIGENCE: High

Among the floating islands of the sky-realm of Pangaria, the true riders of the storm are the CRYSTAL GATHERERS, skilled workers tasked with collecting Storm Crystals - the power-source for all Technomancy within the archipelago - from the heart of the tempest. As such, the Crystal Gatherer is almost always of an Elemental ancestry, roll on the below table to determine who they are:

Roll Ancestry

1-3 Stormborn

4-5 Wind Sprite

6 Crystal Sprite

Crystal Gatherers carry little in the way of gear; usually a large sack tethered to both themselves and 1-3 inflated Spinefish Bladders, and a fully-charged Pincer-Fist. The latter is used to both collect Storm Crystals from their tempest-nurseries without damaging them, and also as a weapon, for the Crystal Gatherer to defend themselves against attack. For even in the eye of the storm, danger lurks in the form of Lightning Serpents, Bedlam Hags, Ectovults and the Fetch, all intent on claiming Storm Crystals for their own malicious purposes.

Crystal Gatherers are thus both highly specialized and multi-skilled, quick-thinking and fast-moving, dealing with a rapidly changing aerial environment and its hostile denizens in their quest to keep Pangaria supplied with Storm Crystals to power all its Technomantic devices and machines. Most work under the aegis of the Citadel, returning their catch to the Technomancers at the end of the day in exchange for set rates of payment including danger-money and hardship-allowances. For some however, this is not enough, and they go the freelance route, or even become rogue operators, collecting Storm Crystals and hawking them to the highest bidder no matter what their intentions, including Cloud Giant traders, Air Brigands, and even Lightning Demon invaders from the Pit. Such turncoats are outlawed in Pangaria itself, and often hunted down and captured by Sky Watch Officers for rehabilitative reeducation in the dungeons of the Citadel, where, hopefully, they will see the wrongness of their ways...