An Alkenny Scentier
A Scentier is someone naturally born with an acute scene of smell — an ability often enhanced by training — and with physical modifications and adornments like raised tattoos or embedded seashells. Similar to Ayuras, individual Scentiers can have functional ritualistic scarifications running across their faces, often from cheeks and ears and foreheads to the base of their nostrils, as if guiding energy and focus to their noses. Multiple Scentiers often breathe in unison to determine what is out there.[1]
In battle, Scentiers are so valuable, one or two other warriors are assigned to them as personal guards. Scentiers are kept from the fray because their ability to assess the situation is so strategically advantageous, soldiers do not want to risk losing them. They serve as the bloodhounds of any military organization and have the ability to dream the wind.[1]