Scholar

You have a knack for learning and sequestered yourself from the outside world to learn all you could. You read about so many wondrous places and things in your books, and always dreamed about one day seeing the real things. Eventually, that curiosity led you to leave your studies and become an adventurer.

Scholars

True power comes from knowledge: the power to shape the growth of kingdoms by mere whispers, staying three steps ahead of adversaries, or even knowing which flora is best for creating untraceable poisons.

Career

Career Progression

Centers Of Learning

Kitharodian Academy (Tordal ): Famed bardic college teaching students of all social classes. Irhurman College (Irhurma): Ancient school with some of the world's greatest stores of arcane knowledge. University of Lepidstadt (Tsurawa ): School primarily focusing on alchemy, medicine, and scientific study.

Scholastic Disciplines

Beside the life and natural sciences such as arcana, biology, botany, geology, oceanography, and zoology, demand is increasing in cities for more modern disciplines, like anthropology, economics, sociology, urban planning, and even art curation and forensic investigation.

— Gamemastery Guide pg. 240

Other Benefits

Type

Research / Scientific

Famous in the Field

• Poshzhuket

Ranks & Titles

• Arcane Professor
• Sage

Scholar Background - Background

TRAIT

Description You have a knack for learning and sequestered yourself from the outside world to learn all you could. You read about so many wondrous places and things in your books, and always dreamed about one day seeing the real things. Eventually, that curiosity led you to leave your studies and become an adventurer.
Applications Choose two ability boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free ability boost. You’re trained in your choice of the Arcana, Nature, Occultism, or Religion skill, and gain the Assurance skill feat in your chosen skill. You’re also trained in the Academia Lore skill.