Woodworking (sage field)

Woodworking is a sage field available to bards, including the activity and skill of making objects, furniture and large-scale structures out of wood. Includes the dyeing, staining and polishing of veneer and the use of resins as glues and ornamentation.

The field includes the following sage studies:

• Engines (sage study): a skill in creating large machines, wind and water mills, rolling wagons, chariots, siege engines and religious apparati, for practical use, martial destruction and festive celebration.

• Joinery (sage study): the act of joining pieces of wood together to make complex items such as furniture, cabinets, timber framing and additional creations associated with carpentry.

• Shipbuilding (sage study): the construction of ships and other floating vessels, often viewed as works of magnificence and art, for practical haulage and as weapons of war.

• Turning (sage study): the craft of using a lathe and chisel to carve or fashion wood into a variety of imaginative or useful objects, for both practical and aesthetic merit. The study includes the use of a cutting knife to create figurines and other sculpture from wood.

See Bard Sage Abilities