Ladej Kai hails from the Elemental Chaos, a desert of burning sand and short lives where fire genasi are baptised in flame. There, in the pure elemental flames used to build the world, Ladej discovered a preternatural talent for creation. Small things at first; a dagger of still fire, a blanket of wind and dust, but as his skill grew it became clear that great things lay in his future. He was sent to the City of Brass, where the wicked and powerful efreets rule, and learned of the ancient power of the Primordials to build worlds from wild debris of the Elemental Chaos. Young and eager, he studied the Primordials and their awful defeat at the hands of the gods even as he turned his considerable but meager skill towards weapon-making. As he grew older, he was given more and more freedom, and he used it to make long pilgrimiges across the infinte Chaos to visit the places where the Primordials were imprisoned. His reverence for the powerful beings grew quickly, and moreso as he learned their role in creating the genasi, and the scope of the world they had made. To Imix, Ogremach, Solkarra, and others he pledged his loyalty, for what good it did the Primordials in their prisons.
It was on one of these journeys that Ladej Cai's future in the Elemental Chaos would be ended. Efreets fight and bicker in deadly rivalries from a very young age, and Ladej's talent earned him many enemies. He was strong and clever, and free genasi had a reputation for mercilessness he was willing to live up to, so while he was present his enemies did not bother him openly. He returned to find himself exiled, not simply from the City of Brass, but from the Elemental Chaos itself. Unceremoniously shoved through a tear in space, Ladej Cai found himself in a stable, solid world where the Primordials are all but forgotten for the usurping thieves that call themselves gods, where the stone and wind were alive, and where, most amusingly, the god's vaunted "arcane magic" was outlawed.
He stopped smiling when he realized that people couldn't tell the difference between the power that built the world and the drunken, half-legible scrawls of the fey. An insult and a curious magistrate saved the lives of his accusers (as well as his own, perhaps,) and gave Ladej Cai the chance to earn an Artificer's License. He earned it easily, and, lacking a direction or way to return to the familiar ferocity of the Elemental Chaos, remained in Ydria, earning his way through item enchantment and occasional mercenary work. The first was and is harder than the second; the world is solid and stable, unwilling to bend to mere thought and desire. Still, Ladej Cai's superior skill shows through, and he is able to be picky about his clients.

Ritual Book Stuff:
Knock
A blue, glowing key appears in front of the door and disappears into it. The door glows amber for a moment and then unlocks.
Component Cost: 35 gp, plus 1 healing surge
Market Price: 175 gp
Key Skill: ArcanaLevel: 4
Category: Exploration
Time: 10 minutes
Duration: Instantaneous
The Knock ritual allows you to open a single locked door, chest, gate, or other object. It even works against portals sealed with the Arcane Lock ritual or doors secured with bolts or bars that are on the far side, out of reach. You must defeat all the closures on a locked object to unlock it. You make one Arcana check per lock, bar, Arcane Lock, or similar closure. The object you unlock does not open automatically; you still must open it yourself after the ritual unlocks it.
Make an Arcana check with a +5 bonus in place of a Thievery check to open each lock or closure. (See the Thievery skill description, page 189, for example DCs.) To undo bolts or bars you normally couldn’t reach, you must succeed on a DC 20 Arcana check.
If you use this ritual successfully against a portal protected by Arcane Lock, you destroy the Arcane Lock and its effects end.

Transfer Enchantment
With great care and concentration, you carefully strip magical power from one object to imbue it in another.
Component Cost: 25 gp
Market Price: 175 gp
Key Skill: Arcana (no check)Level: 4
Category: Creation
Time: 1 hour
Duration: Permanent
You transfer the magical qualities (properties, powers, and enhancement bonus) of an enchanted item into another object. You must maintain physical contact with both items for the duration of the ritual. The receiving item must occupy the same magic item slot (head, waist, armor, and so on) and be the same type (wand, rod, weapon, and so on) as the original item. The enchantment to be moved must be valid for the receiving item, so that you cannot transfer ranged weapon properties to melee weapons, cloth-only armor properties to chainmail, and so on.
You can transfer an enchantment to an item that already contains a lower-level enchantment, but the receiving item’s previous magic is lost. For example, the enhancement bonus and power of a suit of +1 barkskin hide (5th level) could be placed into a suit of +1 curseforged scale (3rd level), but the scale armor’s existing power is lost in doing so. You cannot transfer an enchantment to an item that already has a higher-level enchantment.

Hand of Fate
A ghostly apparition appears to give you basic guidance about a course of action.
Component Cost: 70 gp
Market Price: 175 gp
Key Skill: Religion (no check)Level: 4
Category: Divination
Time: 10 minutes
Duration: 10 minutes
When you perform the ritual, ask up to three questions about possible courses of action. A translucent blue hand appears and indicates with a gesture what the most rewarding course of action is.
If you describe courses of action that refer to directions or specific objects, then the hand points toward the choice that bears the greatest reward. If you ask the hand, “Should we head down the stairs or through the doors?” then the hand responds by pointing either to the stairs or the doors. If you ask the hand, “Which of these three levers should we pull first?” then the hand responds by pointing to a lever.
If you describe only a single course of action, the ritual assumes that inaction is your other option. The hand either beckons you (to indicate that you should proceed) or gestures for you to halt. For example, the question “Should we explore the ruins of Solitronia?” results in the hand either beckoning you or gesturing for you to halt.
The hand can’t assess events in the far future; its judgment extends only to likely events in the next hour. If the hand can’t indicate a preference, the ritual has no effect and expends no components.
There are two drawbacks to using the ritual to aid your decisions. First, fate values rewards over risk, and this ritual provides guidance accordingly. It points you toward a high risk, high reward option before pointing you toward a low risk, low reward alternative. For example, if one tunnel leads to a dragon and great wealth and the other tunnel leads back to town, then the hand points toward the dragon. However, a high risk, low reward alternative is considered less rewarding than a low risk, low reward option.
Second, the hand can choose only the most rewarding course of action relative to the alternatives provided. That doesn’t mean that the indicated choice is necessarily a good idea, only that it’s a better idea than the other options you’ve indicated. In the example above, if all three levers activate traps, then the hand points toward the lever that triggers a trap less lethal than the others.

Wizard's Curtain
Some activities call for privacy.
Component Cost: 30 gp
Market Price: 75 gp
Key Skill: Arcana (no check)Level: 1
Category: Warding
Time: 10 minutes
Duration: 24 hours
You draw a curtain or several curtains from nowhere to ensure your visual privacy. The curtain is nearly opaque and appears in any pattern or colors your desire. The ritual obscures all sight lines into a single room (or a burst 4 area), applying a –10 penalty to Perception checks to see anything inside the warded area

Endure Elements
Neither the biting cold nor the searing heat troubles you anymore. You travel in arctic or desert wastes as comfortably as in temperate climes.
Component Cost: 20 gp
Market Price: 100 gp
Key Skill: Arcana or Nature (no check)Level: 2
Category: Exploration
Time: 10 minutes
Duration: 24 hours
The Endure Elements ritual lets you designate up to five ritual participants, including yourself, who ignore penalties associated with extremes of nonmagical weather.
An affected creature suffers no ill effects from ambient temperatures between –50 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit, and the creature’s equipment is likewise protected from the ravages of these temperatures and of precipitation.

Woundpatch
Component Cost: See below
Market Price: 120 gp
Key Skill: Heal or Nature (no check)Level: 3
Category: Curative
Time: 1 hour
The woundpatch looks like a swatch of human skin. One sticky side keeps it in place when applied to an injured creature.