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Given the cost to obtain some Freeman’s licenses and the small relative number of shops that rotate or open up for Freemen to license, there are some who might spend years or a lifetime within this position. (The most famous management positions being oversight of the Laketown’s various housing complexes and the Great House, businesses that tend to be deeds long held by old merchant families who would never sell rights outright.)
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These licenses are best identified by their bracelet markers which are made of iron and the marker therein stamped into the face of the bracelet. These bracelets are permitted only in the hands of the official license holder and any one, whether an employee, spouse, or neither, in possession of it is illegal and will be handled however the Artisan Union sees fit. High-Tier shops are typically are broader than more specialized than Mid-Tier though still are limited to an area of craftsmanship. Patenting of designs is available to this tier only in their licensed areas. This License cannot be included with any other License.
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WEAPON-SMITH - Artisan specializing in the making and selling of weapons of metal or wood. Marker is a sword-and-dagger.
WEIRMASTErWEIRMASTER- Artisan specializing in the making and selling of fishing traps, fishing equipment such as poles, hooks, lines and nets as well as the selling of raw fish, turtle or frog meat, clams, mussels, oysters, rock-lobster, crabs, and lake-shrimp. Marker is a weir.
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