Delvers

Delver is a label for someone that regularly explores the Scar or other territories containing Mormo's legacy. They are willing to risk their bodies and minds on the hunt for treasure, knowledge or other pursuits.

"Lancet", like the medical knife, is a colloquial term for delvers. On the one hand because a knife with the engravings of their guild is used both as a universal tool and their identification. On the other one because of an allegory about blades cutting inside a scar, searching for whatever might lie inside and opening it up further.

Reputation
Delvers are essential. Countless major discoveries were only made thanks to their accomplishments and sacrifices. No civilization could have recovered after the Cataclysm this quickly without them retrieving the United Imperium's lost secrets. Some delvers are even hailed as heroes. Yet many outsiders prefer to not get involved with them. After all, delvers are likely to be afflicted by Mormo's Corruption and who knows what else changed within them after being exposed to so many strange powers. Depending on what you are doing inside the Scar and who you belong to, delving can be the called the most honorable or deplorable profession.

Independent delvers
Independent delvers seem rare, but many of them just keep their activity a secret. Most reasons for entering the Scar on your own are less than moral and operating outside of registered expeditions is usually forbidden. Independent delvers are seen as a hazard, since they don't follow any code or regulations. They might awaken some horrible things with their amateurish methods. And they smuggle dangerous artifacts outside, potentially fencing them into the wrong hands or working for shady figures in the first place.

Legendary delvers
Various delver guilds and scholars are working together to compile and regularly update an encyclopedia about the Scar. Those books are meant to provide interested parties with information about the Scar's nature, Mormo's artifacts and the most exceptional delvers. Those who've got an article dedicated to their name have been acknowledged as people of historical importance and are colloquially known as legendary delvers. (Must rewrite this part).

Becoming a legendary delver is the highest honor a delver can achieve. While many of them only got their entry posthumously, those who achieve it while still being active gain various privileges. Legendary delvers are exempt from some prohibitions, are allowed to privately own powerful relics, get more autonomy when planning their own expeditions, gain more funding for their projects and so on. Those few are the so-called "Sovereign Blades".