Now that channellers have apparently been tuned to hell and back or suffered
from general tunes to be fairly underpowered, how about adding them to the
civilized background again so I can start dreaming of being sabrebardchannu
again some time in the far, far future when I manage to find people for exp!

On a more serious note, really, if the transfer ratio has been borked and
channus being considerably less powerful in causing pure damage compared to
rune mages as I understood it, why not? I know many like me remember the
sabrebardchanneller as being absolutely the most fun reinc ever.

I'd be happy to get channeller/merchant combination, that way it could even
carry the minerals. Currently my golem can only dance, and it's way too poor
at it.

Yes channellers should be joinable by civilized, just need to make it so that
sabres and other so called civi tanks cant join there. This would bring more
merchants etc backrow civis to game.

Just limit that caster can't wield anything in hands, something like at
runemages.