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Marithel — Unique Materials and Craft Traditions
Marithel’s material traditions are organized around function.
A lenswright, reef witness, oilworker, temple custodian, Powderwright, salvage stabilizer, and quarantine clerk may all handle rare material, but they do not share the same authority or training.
Find a Subject
| Need at the table | Page |
|---|---|
| lenses, mirrors, signals, shutters, beacon components, optical fraud | Saltglass, Optics, Mirrors, and Beacon Craft |
| oils, weather tools, Thalara stormglass, sacred light, rescue signals | Oils, Stormglass, Weather, and Sea-Rite Materials |
| pearls, shell, Bellcoral, ancestor coral, living reef, Sapphire Reef | Reefs, Pearls, Shell, Coral, and Living Materials |
| drowned bells, witness burns, archive media, magical salvage | Drowned Bells, Witness Media, Memory, and Salvage |
| powder, fire, alchemy, signal charges, dangerous shipboard material | Powders, Alchemy, Fire, and Dangerous Shipboard Craft |
| Dreaming Grove blossoms, confiscated samples, planar glass, relic custody | Sacred, Planar, Restricted, and Confiscated Materials |
| household craft, textiles, inks, ceramics, preservation, all twelve regions | Regional Craft Traditions and Everyday Material Culture |
| ownership, custody, marks, fraud, markets, case studies | Provenance, Certification, Custody, Counterfeits, and Markets |
| PF2e Crafting, rarity, formulas, skills, item framework, backgrounds | PF2e Materials, Formulas, Items, and Character Access |
Quick Material Questions
When characters encounter an unusual object, answer these in order:
- What is it claimed to be?
- Where was it made, gathered, recovered, or seized?
- Who had authority over that source?
- Who last held it?
- What mark, record, witness, or certificate supports the claim?
- What condition is it in?
- What can make it dangerous or unreliable?
- Who can lawfully use it?
- What PF2e item, formula, ritual, hazard, or project defines its mechanics?
If no one can answer the first four questions, price is not the main problem.
Major Public Authorities
| Authority | Material function |
|---|---|
| Saltglass Lenswright Collegia | training, technical standards, professional standing, protected optical practice |
| Saltglass Principalities | political control over major Shard craft centers and contracts |
| Beacon Houses | lighthouse acceptance, oil recipes, plates, codes, imprint procedure, route calibration |
| Whiteglass authorities | optical contracts, technical disputes, workshop legitimacy |
| Pearlglass authorities | appraisal, commercial certification, sealed luxury cargo, insurance |
| Lanternhold Oil and Glass School | practical oilwork, lens care, fuel safety, emergency lightcraft |
| Temple of Thalara and Sea-Temple Network | sacred weather and sea-rite material, healing custody, funerary and storm relief practice |
| Drowned Reef Cantons | reef stewardship, ecological restrictions, community recognition |
| Reefcourt | salvage, ancestor, grave, living-claim, and access classification |
| Drowned Witness Houses | testimony, archive practice, drowned evidence, memory custody |
| Sirenward Compact | restricted deepwater possession, seizure, quarantine, custody |
| Sirenward Listeners | limited examination and classification of confiscated deepwater material |
| Corsair Powderwrights | controlled powder craft, lot marks, formula traditions, shipboard safety |
| Wreckscale Harbor | deepwater transfer, stabilization, valuation, warehousing, recovered records |
| Beaconmoot | lighthouse standards, postings, complaints, recognized towers, signal practice |
Material Is Not Authority
A workshop mark proves who claims to have made an object.
A certificate proves what someone was willing to certify.
A court ruling determines what that court decided.
A temple seal confirms custody or rite within a recognized religious practice.
A reef witness establishes how a community understands the material.
None of these automatically replaces the others.