The artificer-craftsmen who cut, calibrate, and construct with sun-glass — keepers of a craft older than the Empire, now squeezed between Consortium monopolies and the desperate demand for working beacons. Renegade lumenwrights sell their skills to the highest bidder.
Before the Empire, before the Concordat, there were the lumenwrights — artificers of the old guilds who discovered that sun-glass, when properly cut and attuned, could capture, store, and channel raw solar magic. They built the first lanteens — handheld sun-glass lanterns that held captured dawnlight — and the first beacon towers, primitive but effective, that kept the Blight at bay during the Age of Dusk.\n\nWith the founding of the Empire, the lumenwrights' craft was systematized, militarized, and monopolized. The independent guilds were absorbed into what became the Lumen Consortium; their secrets became proprietary knowledge. Yet the old craft survives in fragments — renegade lumenwrights who fled the Consortium's reach practice in hidden workshops across the Ashen Peaks, cutting sun-glass with techniques the Consortium has forgotten or forbidden.\n\nLumenwrights are the tinkerers and artificers of Aethelgard — the ones who keep the beacon-chain lit, the lanteens charged, and the ward-arrays calibrated. A lumenwright's tools are worth a fortune in sun-glass alone; a skilled one is worth more. Both the Compact and the Consortium will pay handsomely — or kill — for a lumenwright's loyalty.