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"I’m a tinker and a peddler, and I’m more than both. I’m an arcanist, you great dithering heap of idiot."
Abenthy[1]

An arcanist is one who has worked his or her way through the Arcanum at the University and been given a gilthe, or guilder, to carry as a symbol of that achievement. It is the last of the Arcanum ranks, gained after El'the. Arcanists are trained in sympathy, and traditionally in naming. It is customary for an arcanist’s full education to take six years.[2]

Arcanists are viewed with great suspicion by many uneducated persons in the Four Corners, and their abilities, which seem essentially magical to those who are not educated in an arcanist's crafts, are often viewed as unnatural and evil. They are often mistakenly linked with demons and evil fae.

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  1. The Name of the Wind, Chapter 8: "Thieves, Heretics, and Whores"
  2. The Name of the Wind, Chapter 44: "The Burning Glass"
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