Codex Entry: Backgrounds and Professions. Archivist Sarla Everhart initiates a crucial sociological study into the diverse roles and professions that define the labour, specialization, and societal function of every individual across Universe 336. This comprehensive category details the immense variety of paid and unpaid jobs found in all walks of life, providing essential context for the economic and cultural structures of the cosmos.

The Diversity of Roles and Requisites:

This category documents the specific functions and required qualifications for a vast spectrum of occupations:

Role Entailment: A precise description of what the role entails, including daily responsibilities, typical environment, and legal standing within a society.

Acquisition Requirements: Clear outlines of what is required to acquire the profession or role, detailing necessary training, certification, apprenticeship, or required innate abilities.

Social Spectrum: Documentation encompasses all societal roles, from legitimate civil service to roles within the fringe, including criminal gangs, the sex industry, essential roles like naturalists and astronomers, and complex positions like street urchins.

Magical Specializations: This includes specialized magical professions that mandate the ability to cast magic, such as a teacher of magic, an arcane consultant, or the powerful, contract-bound warlock patron.

Interconnections to Factions, Species, and Power:

Backgrounds and Professions acts as a core interconnection point, providing structure and function to the universe's large-scale organizations and individual powers:

Factions and Organisations: Many professions link directly to the various Factions and Organisations within the universe, as these groups often have specific, ranked professions that are an integral part of their hierarchy, governance, and operational structure (e.g., specific ranks within an intergalactic union or a specialized role within a criminal guild).

Species Limitations: Although many professions are open to any Civilised Species, this category documents roles that can only be done by specific species, due to unique anatomical requirements (like the Aeroen's respiratory abilities) or innate biological traits.

Mantle and Role: Certain Mantles and Submantles are often strongly attributed to or sought after for specific professions, such as a healing Mantle holder being a battlefield medic, or a specific Mantle being essential for a master assassin.

Character Depth: Individual Characters are almost always defined by having one or more jobs and roles within society, adding depth and motivation to their personal biographies.

To study Backgrounds and Professions is to understand the economic engine, the social stratification, and the intricate division of labour that sustains every aspect of Universe 336