Job Searcher
Searchers are people who are gathering the so called Nigrum stones. These stones are the only known cure against the curses of beasts. Normally the searchers are cursed themselves. This helps 'em to actually find the real stones because only cursed people are able to feel the refreshing and relieving strength of the stones. Non-cursed people can solely look at the appearance of a stone to determine if it's a real one but cannot tell how strong it's powers are.
A good searcher can only find one or two stones a year. Not just because they're extremely rare but also because they can only be found in dangerous places. That's also the reason why many searchers give up within just a few months.
Additionally many searchers are already physically weak which does it make pretty impossible to keep going for a long time. Only a handful of searchers are able to do this job for more than ten years.
The Searcher's Guild
Every searcher has to report and handover his trove on the official searchers office, the Searcher's Guild. They will then pay the searcher for finding the stones, depending on the size, quality and quantity of the stones.
Only searchers know where this guild is located. The guild will also move place frequently to make it even more secure.
An official public info, which searcher could find which stone or how many a searcher normally finds within a year does not exist. But of course the guild is keeping record of every stone they are getting.
This list of the stones is public because the general public is extremely interested in these stones.
It's the guild that will hand out larger stones to cities, town and villages. The guild also helps to build and maintains the monuments that defend the towns from beasts.
The quantity of middle sized and smaller stones is being halved every year. One half will go to people in need for treatment against curses.
The other half is being sold at an auction every half a year. It's this auction that finances the whole guild as any public work is actually free of charge, for example the building and maintaining of monuments.
License
A person can only become an official searcher if he trained at a already official searcher and was able to find a stone without the help of his mentor.
To keep the searcher license, a searcher must bring in one stone every four years. If they cannot do that, they will lose the license.
The payment for one stone is enough to survive for about a year. The more stones one can collect, the higher of course the payments.
There are only a handful of information about the searchers on the official website of the guild.
One thing that they do display is the record of who could collect the most stones in a year which currently is at five stones and is being hold by a searcher who's calling himself "Wodan".
However among the searchers exist a rumour that there was one searcher that could once find ten stones in a year and his student did also hand over ten stones on the day he became a searcher and got his license, however this student was said to could've gathered them in only one month! According to the statistics and the experiences this seems to be completely impossible and is said to be a myth.
...Or is it?