Role: Siege Engineers
Gear: A sledgehammer and a fully loaded tool belt.
Outfit: A thick leather apron over plain clothes.
Skill level: Masters in carpentry, masonry, smithing, architecture and, above all else, engineering.
Affiliation: City-State of Aglaia, in the Athenian Fields.
Strengths: Any skilled Engineer can easily build and handle siege weapons. However, only true Polymath from Aglaia can build highly experimental and groundbreaking contraptions with ease!
Weaknesses: As most of their best designs are actual prototypes of innovative and untested new ideas, some of their contraptions might not work at first, or simply backfire in a terrible accident.
Aglaian Polymaths
The term "Polymath" is a rather complex word, designed to describe very complex individuals. That's because a Polymath is a person whose expertise spans over a significant number of different subject areas, and such a person is often able to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems in such ways that others can only dream about!
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As such, the Aglaian Polymaths aren't simple engineers like so many of the common folk believe them to be. While mere engineers are able to craft and build great works of engineering to solve a problem or enhance something, Polymaths can come up with brand new groundbreaking blueprints of projects that can possibly revolutionize industry, art and war!
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Coming straight from the famous and renowned Universities of the City-State of Aglaia, these highly inventive geniuses are some of the greatest minds of Arandolia! Like any other engineer, they studied absolutely everything they could learn about working with stone, wood and metal. But atop of all that, in Aglaia they are taught how to do something that makes all the difference. There, they are encouraged to greatly widen their range of study, becoming able to think outside of the box and having an entire new world of possibilities within their grasp!
During their 8 years long graduation, the Polymath students of Aglaia are already assigned to work with the best mentors they could ever find. The overburdening demand of sheer intellectual and physical hardwork and dedication that is expected from them is so harsh that more than half of the students ends giving up and trying another career. But those who persevere and succeed have their minds and bodies honed to great levels of skill and might! At the end of their courses, they graduate as no less than masters of at least 6 diverse fields of knowledge at once, receiving a necklace with 6 brass keys that symbolizes the keys of knowledge and wisdom that they already mastered to get there. One key for each mastered area of expertise.
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Unlike other nerds who studied only half as much as they did, the Aglaian Polymaths get their hands full of calluses from hammering down their prototypes and contraptions themselves, becoming quite the strong and toned women by the time they leave the university to find work somewhere else. They are therefore very intelligent, fit and often adorn their bodies with beautiful tattoos of their own designs, making them both great suitors for any other amazon and great candidates for any job they might desire.
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Generals, high priestesses and noblewomen from every corner of Arandolia come and seek the services of the these fabled masterminds, paying true fortunes to finance their experimental projects in the hopes that it may result on unimaginable wonders of war, architecture or manufactoring. However, no one is perfect! Even geniuses make mistakes from time to time, and the sheer experimental nature of a Polymath's work means that dealing with such dangerous projects may very well result in anything from a failed useless pile of rubble, to cathastrofic desasters that can perhaps even burn down half of the neighborhood!
Such is the price of science, though. In order to achieve greatness, one must always take risks at dealing with the new and the unknown. The Polymaths from Aglaia are ready to jump right onto this dangerous but very rewarding pursuit of knowledge. All they need is the proper patronage!