Factions of the Lakelands: Delvers

DRAFT: I don't know why, but I've been struggling to write the final section of this post for weeks. Rather than let this stall out any longer, I'm going to post it as a draft and then update it later. It's therefore also only incompletely edited. I'll enable comments (by posting to Bluesky) and link everything properly at that point. Sorry for the inconvenience. DelversCommon locations: Settlement archives, marketplaces, pre-Arrival ruins and environs. Common activities: Exploring pre-Arrival ruins, building tools and machines. Roles in a campaign: Patrons, rivals, sources of equipment and information. Delvers are explorers, salvagers, and tinkerers. Any group of people that braves a pre-Arrival ruin, takes something valuable out of the wreckage, and uses it to make or improve tools for a future venture, is a delver crew. They can vary from a small team of half a dozen individuals to an outfit with a few hundred employees. Delver groups can be strictly hierarchical or largely…