There’s a set of archetypes (boatman, barkeep) that can be confused with threshold guardians, companions, and teachers, but are really to be thought of as stagecoach types. They carry and coach people through specific stages. Your life chapter is their whole life.
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does the grade school math teacher who doesn't remember most of their pupils fit this designation
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or is "teaching" an explicitly disqualifying act?
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can you elaborate on why not? it definitely fits the "your chapter, their life" categorization
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The boatman learns the moods of the river. The people ferried across are a peripheral matter. The teacher is primarily focused on the student’s journey, not the river of (say) evolving 8th grade pedagogy. Which is not an interesting enough river to occupy a human life I think.
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the river expertise makes sense, what is a barman's mandate?


