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Beastsing Guild
“Beastspeaking is the ability in animals to produce an idiosyncratic combination of images, human words and feeling impulses on a level of the mind which may be reached by Talented humans. There is far greater ease of communication between humans and creatures who have lived among them than with wild beasts who have had little contact with humans. Common to all beasts are dialect words which appear to derive from a rich cycle of myths and legends, whose origin is a mystery.

Beasting-guilders possess a particular combination of limited empathy and farseeking Talent, that enables them to receive and project their thoughts in beast-speech. They can also communicate at a basic level with non-beastspeaking animals. Beasts who have developed beast-speaking abilities do not appear to have coercive powers, but many more beasts than humans possess futuretelling ability, though again this is often largely idiosyncratic. The guild charter of the beastspeakers is to promote the harmony and true equality of all creatures. It administers the extensive farms and orchards that produce Obernewtyn's vital wintertime stores.” - Ashling Glossary

Quotes on Beastspeaking
“Beastspeaking was often difficult to understand, because sometimes animals used words differently than we did.” - Ashling
“...beastspeaking obeyed no rules. Communications were entirely idiosyncratic, dependent on how much Talent a beast possessed, their mood at the time of communication, their relationship to the human with whom they communed, and, sometimes, even on what was to be told. Beasts interchangeably used their own odd dialect, imagepictures infused with emotions and human words, enhanced by empathized emotions. This was what made beastspeaking such a complex Talent to master.” - Ashling

Beastspeech dictionary at Obernewtyn.net

Healing Guild
“Healers use the ability to deep probe, shaping it into thin tendrils which are used as conduits into the molecules of mind or body to repair and heal. Deep probing is the ability to go beneath the conscious levels of the mind, and healers are also able to use it in reverse, to siphon off pain and heal it within their own bodies. Their charter forbids the opposing of nature. They are skilled in the use of herb lore.” - Ashling Glossary

Quotes on Healing
“…healers, like coercers and futuretellers, could descend into the unconscious mind, deepprobing.” - The Farseekers
“The healer also entered other minds, but with a probe honed tendril-thin for healing.” - The Farseekers

Futuretell Guild
“Again using the root ability to deep probe, futuretellers turn their powers on themselves, sinking into their own minds so deeply in their search for self-knowledge that at the deepest level where all minds merge, and close to mind death, they are able to see fragments of the future. Any tedious or monotonous job is welcomed by them, because it aids the continuation of their inner cogitations. They manage the household at Obernewtyn.” - Ashling Glossary

Quotes on Futuretelling
“…healers, like coercers and futuretellers, could descend into the unconscious mind, deepprobing.” - The Farseekers

Hearders
in association with the council men. Based on the hearder isles, they have rankings such as the inner circle.
Ariel, part of the council, hearder fraction, and in association with salamander,(a slave trader) has a distorted talent with abilities still unknown.