Nod has no sun. Without the Lamplighters, it would also have no light.
The Lamplighters maintain the city's network of arcane streetlamps, the fuel less lanterns that line major thoroughfares. These lamps provide more than illumination; they are geometric wards that keep the Shadow from bleeding into inhabited districts at their most vulnerable points. The work is part engineering, part sorcery, and entirely thankless. A functioning lamp is oddly invisible but a dark stretch of street is extremely noticeable.
The organization is small, technically skilled, and perpetually strained. They are not a guild in the formal sense but operate with guild-like structure: apprenticeships, territorial assignments, and a deep institutional knowledge of the city's older infrastructure that no one else possesses. Several Lamplighters are Scribes. A few are Shapers. Most are humans or semi-humans with enough magical sensitivity to maintain existing enchantments, which is cheaper and less dangerous than employing full practitioners. In the wealthier districts, the Lamplighters' wards compete with electric lighting imported from Earth or powered by thermic fungus generators. These mundane lights serve no protective function against the Shadow, a distinction the Lamplighters make loudly and the wealthier residents ignore until something crawls out of a dark corner that a lightbulb cannot deter.
Their relationship with the Council is transactional. The Council pays them just enough to maintain a working city but not a bright one and Councillors maintain their own private lamp-folk. Instead most funding comes from the lesser governments of districts and boroughs throughout the city. The real constraint is obtaining the materials and knowledge to make and maintain the lamps.
Lamp Theft: The value of the cities Lamps are obvious and keeping them from being stolen has been a perpetual challenge. Lamp Theft is considered a high offense by the Prefex but this has not prevented a robust underground trade in lights.
Lamp Tech: While many Lamplighters hew to the traditional and decry any attempt to modernize, there is a subset of them, particularly recent arrivals from Earth and Skulks, who are working on new forms of 'Lamp', ones connected to the cities increasingly omnipresent electrical grid. A method for mass producing the sorts of components that can bridge the electrical and the arcane has not yet been found but many think it's just a matter of time, an idea the elders of the organization actively decry.