"We were once like you, but our industries have become highly automated. Complex systems can memorize conventional artisan methods and styles, thus manufacturing products that would have been considered expensive luxuries mere centuries before, driving many otherwise talented artisans out of business. Thus, the few artisans that survive financially still are those who can best the machine in elegance and quality or those who craft items from obscure and/or incredibly complicated schools of artistry and crafting. Due to their rarity and their limited consumer base, an item constructed by an artisan is both incredibly luxurious and incredibly costly"