Apprentices - Healer (SNS)

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Healers do not gain any followers-unlike members of player character classes. However, healers often pick up apprentices in the course of their business.
Once a healer reaches 5th level, he attracts a single apprentice every time he gains an additional level. The apprentice only remains in the healer's service until the healer himself goes up three full levels in experience. At that point, the apprentice becomes a 1st-level journeyman healer.
Most healers only have up to three apprentices at a time, but the most famous and renowned healers attract even more. At 8th level and above, the healer attracts up to three apprentices per level. Each of these is ready to leave after their master attains one more level of experience. Those apprentices that were retained at the master's 6th and 7th levels can leave automatically when their master reaches the 8th level.
At 10th level (and each level thereafter), the healer attracts another healer of five experience levels less than himself. This master apprentice hopes to glean knowledge from one of the legendary practitioners of the healing arts. However, this apprentice is already a healer, and only stays until the master healer attains the next level of experience. At that point, the master apprentice gains another level for himself and can leave the healer's service.
Apprentices require a lot of their master's time. A healer must surrender the opportunity to work on one patient a day for every apprentice he has. This relationship cannot be neglected except in the most dire of emergencies.
Of course, apprentices can help the healer as well. While in his service, they each possess the Healing and the Herbalism proficiencies at half (round up) the level of their master. In addition, they can attend up to four patients per day (their studies take up the rest of their time).
Once an apprentice becomes a 1st-level healer, he is not obligated to leave. If the master healer desires, the new healer can join his practice as a journeyman healer. However, if there is not enough local demand for another healer, the master sends the new healer off-possibly with a letter of recommendation