Essence Attendant

Bodies produce more than blood, sweat and breath. Across Erosia, certain bodily essences carry medicinal, alchemical or magical properties, and you learned how to collect, preserve and handle them without shame or carelessness. What began as fascination with intimate physiology became a profession built upon patience, cleanliness, discretion and a remarkably steady hand.

Work with your GM to determine where you practiced your trade. Perhaps you served in a licensed Essence House where Minotaurs, Beastkin, Dracari and other unusual donors were compensated for rare reagents. You might have worked beside healers and alchemists, assisted a temple whose rites required living essences, tended exhausted donors after collection, or traveled between isolated communities where one unusual body could supply medicines unavailable anywhere else.

Legitimate Essence Houses treat donation as both intimate labor and regulated craft. Donors must have reached their culture’s Age of Bloom, possess the capacity to consent and participate freely, and reputable attendants are taught that any procedure ends the moment consent is withdrawn. Your training therefore included not only anatomy and preservation, but also privacy, professional boundaries and the ability to recognize when someone is anxious, overtaxed or simply ready to stop.

Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Medicine

Tool Proficiencies: Alchemist’s supplies

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A set of alchemist’s supplies, three stoppered collection vials, a roll of clean linen, a small tin of cleansing salve, a coded ledger recording former donors by initials or professional marks, a discreet attendant’s apron or wrap, a keepsake given to you by a grateful donor, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Feature: Professional Discretion

You understand the customs surrounding intimate medicine, voluntary donation and the trade in bodily reagents. In a settled community, you can usually identify reputable Essence Houses, apothecaries, fertility clinics, bathhouses, temple infirmaries and similar establishments whose work involves sensitive bodily care or biological materials. You can also recognize the ordinary signs that distinguish professional collection and preservation equipment from improvised or unsafe substitutes.

Practitioners in these trades generally recognize you as someone familiar with their standards. Unless you have given them reason to distrust you, they will usually provide ordinary professional courtesies such as directions, basic sanitation supplies, temporary workspace, publicly available information about local services or an introduction to another practitioner whose specialty is relevant to your needs.

Professional familiarity does not override confidentiality. This feature does not reveal private donor records, medical secrets, restricted formulas or the identities of clients who have paid to remain anonymous, though knowing how such institutions operate may help you determine whom to approach when those secrets become part of an adventure.