GUILD OF GEARS — APPRENTICE ORIENTATION DOCUMENT WRITTEN BY: Enzo Moretti, Master Mechanic, Guild of Gears DISTRIBUTED TO: New apprentices, Year 143 intake (four this year; we are selective, but not unkind) READ ALOUD AT: The Gear Forge, with the furnaces going, because everything sounds more important with furnaces Welcome to the Guild of Gears. You are here because you looked at a machine — one of the ARC units, the things that took the surface, the things that patrol the ruins and dismantle what's left of the world we built — and instead of seeing a monster, you saw a question. What is this made of? How does it work? And can we use it? This is the correct question. This is the only question that matters down here. Because the surface is full of ARC machines, and ARC machines are full of components that we need, and the only thing standing between us and those components is fear, which is rational, and ignorance, which is curable. I came to Speranza from Contrada Brenner when I w...
From the lore of Speranza.