Mothhunters

Every industry out there has its own pecking order, sometimes even a hierarchy of prestige that reflects upon how this profession is actually seen in the world.   There are two sides to being a monster hunter - some people admire you for your incredible fighting skills and the ability to defeat creatures that are ten times and more stronger than most. Vicious, cruel, cunning, with poison, thorns or tentacles - it does not matter, you are able to best any of those. (Admiring of monster hunters can only really be done face to face, so if you are not actually good at fighting, you are too dead of a monster hunter to be admired).   The second side is less pleasant as where there are monster hunters, there are usually monsters (yes, especially if they are on holiday). And monsters mean destruction, diseases, maiming or some twisted unnatural magic - sometimes, if you are really unlucky, it is all of those things combined. No thank you, please, keep walking mister monster hunter, far away from here, make haste.   Mothhunters are considered to be the lowest of low for monster hunters and pretty much everyone shuns them. Even people who have a serious pest problem and would actually maybe use their services. And here you need to think really hard about what your definition of a "pest" really is, because most peasants out there believe that rats can make for the finest feast on a dreary sunday and if a bug happens to land in your soup, well, at least you will get some extra protein for the next half of your day.    Mothhunters deal with the uncookable, unusuable absolutely disgusting gross stuff that needs to be get rid of anyways. It's not really that dangerous, it's more of a nuisance or unpleasantness that makes life around absolutely miserable. A lot of mothhunters have a certain fascination with their own profession, which is most likely a prerequisite to even become one. The weird flocks to the weird. And they are the best people to ask about things having more than ten legs.

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