Grove keeper
Grove keeper is of the elves, an affinity-born people found where Bloom runs strong. They tend living ground the way a farmer tends a field, and in war they strike from afar with the same power that makes their groves grow. Poison barely troubles them.
A kingdom recruits them through its Barracks, at a cost in geld, mana and people, and keeps them on geld and mana. Like any soldier, a grove keeper who goes unpaid deserts, and one who is no longer needed can be sent home. They are slow to muster. Bloom cultivators say a grove keeper will not hurry, because nothing that grows can be hurried.
The keepers have a story of their own about the Greenmother's Ox, the field-tending relic whose Bloom artisan no record names. They say the artisan learned to bind life to a field in their groves. No one has proved them right or wrong, and the maker is still unknown.