An apothecary apprentice would perform a wide variety of tasks, to include the following under the guidance of a master chemist:
- Apprentices would learn about various herbs, their medicinal uses, and how to identify, cultivate, and harvest them from gardens.
- They would be taught to prepare medicines using traditional methods, such as grinding, distilling, and fermenting ingredients to create tinctures, oils, and other compounds.
- A significant part of the training involves learning to compound medicines by mixing various ingredients according to recipes and prescriptions.
- Apprentices would help the master apothecary dispense medicines to customers and patients, learning to understand prescriptions and patient needs.
- Tasks would include weighing and packaging herbs and products for sale, organizing inventory, maintaining cleanliness, and managing deliveries.
- They would also assist in customer service, greeting people, and interacting with them about herbal products and wellness.
- Feat: Healer (origin)
- Skill Proficiencies: Medicine and Nature
- Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit, Alchemist's Supplies
- Languages: Choose One
- Equipment: Healer's Kit and Herbalism Kit
Feature: Herblore
While being trained by a master apothecary, you have begun to collect knowledge of the herbs and reagents that go into making simple medicines and salves. Your experience and knowledge allows you to identify basic ingredients and assess their quality, whether you are foraging in the forest for herbs or browsing goods at a local shop. You also have the basic skills of discerning the nature of various potions, elixirs, poisons, and tinctures.
Contacts
By your master's name, you are known by herb collectors and master apothecary in the area where you were trained.
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