Anachronistic Hearts

What Kind of Steam Character Are You??

Subtle Steam

Absintheur: makers and connoisseurs of absinthe

Adventurer: Discovering cities or new lands... usually by mechanical air ship, possibly something a little blimp-esq. Maybe it looks like an old plane, or a steamship, but with futuristic twists here or there.

Aerial Buccaneer:Artillery Balloonist unit able to quickly board enemy airships and enter areas unreachable by land, for spying and raiding missions.

Aeromeister:

Aeronautical naturalist and philanthropist:

Aerophonotologist: Researcher of randomly occurring sounds from the aether. Modern examples: Slow Down, The Hum, Bloop

Aesthete: Young man or woman of education and taste, with the money to live accordingly. A fin de siecle decadent; your role model may be Byron, Baudelaire, Swineburne, or Wilde - or their female counterparts. Sensible people like Gilbert and Sullivan make jokes about you, and respectable people find you scandalous, but you enjoy making life more beautiful.

Airship Designer: scheming interiors and/or exteriors of airships using blueprints and scale models.

Airship mechanic: works on the airships

Alchemist:Study of matter and combining and manipulating it, using specific and dangerous techniques. Possibly supernatural.

Alchemomaster: master of the alchemy trade unions

Anachroarcheologist: reverse engineering history to find out what has yet to be discovered, and what future discoveries lie in the past.

Analytical Engineer: with underlings:
• Gear-Spinner
• Punch-Cutter

Apothecary:

Aristocrat: The upper class and richest of people, often think very highly of themselves, but don’t lack any part in society.

Army Engineer:

Astronomer: charting the stars for the airships

Author/Historian: Poetic and useful for information and ideas. Usually very helpful people, although can often be stuck up because they feel they have more ideas than you.

Baloonautomator: automates amenities on balloons and dirigibles

Boiler Oiler and valve gear polisher:


Chemical Miner:

Chemical Monitor:

Clipper Skipper:

Collector and Dealer of Curios and Antiquities:

Cryo-engineer:

Daguerrotypist:photographic process, in which an image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour.

Demimondaine: Your position in society is awkward. You aren't a respectable woman, but respectable men enjoy your company and seek you out. You don't exactly sell yourself, but you are willing to have your expenses paid for or accept costly gifts. Your personal charm is your greatest asset; your quick wits are nearly as important.

Detective: a police force or a private agency such as the Pinkertons, or you may be your own boss. In any of these roles, you are a pioneer in systemic investigation. Given the limitations of laboratory methods of the time, you rely on legwork as on forensic science.

Doctor:see Physician.

Ecologist:

Engineer: Builder or specific pieces of machinery for others to have, including goggles, telescopes, eyepieces, leg extensions or replacements, mechanical arms of various durabilities and uses. Similar to a mechanic, but often more in depth and more specific to personal items and uses.

Electrospagyrist:] an art of the Asiatic Empire involving stimulation of the body's electrical nervous system using fine needles and electrical currents; derives from the native medical-alchemical practices found in that region. Paracelsus called the branch of alchemy concerned with making medicines "the spagyric art", hence the electrospagyric art.

Exoautomator: manage and maintains exo-suits

Exomaster: designs and tests exo-suits

Explorer: You spend your life venturing where no one has gone before. You aren't going to settle down; your goal is to make discoveries and return to report them. You may seek ancient ruins, new species of plant or animals, geographic information, or trade routes. Whatever your goal, you measure your success by new knowledge gained - and by whether you live to tell the tale.

Fire Gadgeteer:

Ghost hunter:

Goggle repairer:

Hypnotist:

Inventor: You are a master of advanced technology and the scientific principals underlying it. You may have already created one or more devices, or you may be starving in an attic while you perfect your invention.



Link Technician:

Master Artificer:

Mechanic: Builder or specific pieces of machinery for others to have, including goggles, telescopes, eye pieces, leg extensions or replacements, mechanical arms of various durabilities and uses. Similar to an Engineer, although often tailors more so to transportation and the like.

Medium: The practice of spiritualism is controversial. Believers regarded it as proof of survival after death; skeptics considered it fraudulent.

Nautical Captain: captain of a nautical vehicle, such as a submarine or sailship.

Nurse Eustace: at the Home for retired sky pirates.

Nurse, Practitioner:


Physician:

Pirate: A swashbuckling buccaneer with maybe a mechanical leg, or instead of a hook for a hand, they have a telescope or a gun.

Power Engineer: Whether on a ship or airship, you're the man who keeps the engines running. The ship's officers may not treat you as an equal, but they depend on your grimy hands. The Scottish accent is optional, though the stereotype was already emerging in the Age of Steam.

Power Marine:

Professor: Educated, very knowledgeable and willing to share that knowledge.

Psychic Pharmacist Tracker: assists the Alchemomaster and others who deal with psychics and alchemy.


Ragamuffin: Ragamuffins have dirty jobs, and are in many ways characterized by the dirt or soot that's all over them and colors their clothes. They may not even have a job at all, and might be street urchins, beggars, and the like. Their clothes are often either patchwork or scavenged, as are their gadgets. Blue collar-esq hard workers; Odd jobs, anything you may need or want

Rampart Aviator:

Reckoner: Belongs to one of the newest professions of the Steam Age: the men (and women) who create instructions for analytical engines. Work requires a sophisticated grasp of mathematical relationships, and willingness to get your hands dirty rearranging gears and circuits.

Rock Healer: a slang for an ecologist

Recon Officer: Clean up crew for disasters; all in all very helpful people, extremely resourceful and wise on all things survival. Master to Scrap Legionnaires.

Sailmaker: about sailships

Scientist: The role of scientist is new; the word wasn't coined until 1840. Scientists are knowledgeable in one or more branches of the study of nature; there is little specialization yet. Scientists are often amateurs supported by inherited wealth or doing research in their spare time. Studying power and energy to improve society or their own life, possibly working with sorcery or alchemy.

Scrap Legionnaire: subordinate to Recon Officer

Shoveler: Shovels just about anything for coin... but real money is as an Oil fire and tallow pot filler.

Sparkwright:

Steam Computor Mechanics:
• Stokers: entry level - a responsible job, holding a constant head of steam for running the Engine.
• Mechanics: 2nd level - oils the machine, replaces worn out parts, runs simple diagnostics.
• Setters: 3rd level - load a new set of Orders (a program), and may write simple sets of Orders themselves, providing quality control is performed prior to said orders being executed.
• Savants: A Savant's Certificate entitles him or her (the Guild is proud to say that it holds that women may have as good a grasp of Engineerisms as men, and has many members of the fairer sex) to become the foreman or woman of a Machine Room, and to prepare and execute any Orders that they choose, and may possess the Key to the Micro-Order cabinet of a Babbage Engine, which allows themselves to, in the words of Wordsworth:
“And now I see with Heart serene... The very Pulse of the Machine.”

Steam Engineer:

Steam pipe fitter and valve turner:

steam trolley operator:

Sportsman: You may be an amateur or a professional; in either case, athletic performance is the focus of your life. You spend considerable effort on keeping fit and practicing the sport(s) you enjoy, which could be anything such as: equestrian, acrobatics, hunting, riding, fencing, fist-a-cuffs, boating - anything from the era.

Tobacconist: