As a scribe, you have been entrusted to record history and know-how to read several languages. You are well versed in the ways of writing and can make those who read your work feel emotions they never have known. You are familiar with the most popular lore stories but mainly historical based fiction and non-fiction works. Your fingers are ink-stained from all the writing and you always have that faint new book smell about you. You can enter a library or a similar place and know your way around them.
- Skill Proficiencies: History, Religion, Arcana
- Tool Proficiencies: Calligrapher's supplies
- Languages: Two of your choice
- Equipment: An bottle of black ink, a quill, a set of traveler's clothes, a stack of papers from your most recent job, a book of basic history, and a pouch containing 10 gp.
The years spent writing for officials and nobles have given you a keen eye on syntax and word composition. Therefore, you can decipher messages that are hidden in writing, drawings, and anything that is written down. On a successful Arcana check (DC 16), you can tell if what you are decoding is of arcane nature.
Suggested Characteristics
Scribes tend to be hermits or recluses from the town or city. Often seen as quiet and withdrawn, it allows them to pass unnoticed in most cases. Depending on how they align will depend if they will use their abilities in writing for good or evil.
| d4 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | Everything is a story! I must write it down! |
| 2 | Transcribing work makes me feel like a magician because old works get a new life. |
| 3 | Give me a tower and all the documents you need me to transcribe or write up. I don't like people and prefer to stay away from them as much as possible. |
| 4 | I get really excited when I hear a language I don't know yet and extensively ask to be taught. |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I swore to be the next greatest wise person after my mentor died. |
| 2 | I will be the best novelist in the world. |
| 3 | I will return home after finding the translation to the cure for the disease that plagues them. |
| 4 | I will find the translation to the ancient scroll that was kept by the Elders of my home town and return a hero. |
| 5 | I have an ancient text that holds terrible secrets that must not fall into the wrong hands. |
| 6 | I will learn every language to make myself the best translator ever. |
| d8 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I like hiding away at inconvenient times to write. It could be mid battle and I feel like I need to document everything happening. |
| 2 | I have dyslexia and it often times leads to mistranslations of important documents or conversations. |
| 3 | I get over excited at finding new documents to translate and often forget that it is important to pay attention to my surroundings. |
| 4 | The smell of ink and fresh paper is nauseating; therefore, I will pass out from getting a whiff of it. |
| 5 | I saw it in a book/scroll so therefore it must be true. |
| 6 | I will fall asleep on my current translation and wake up with ink all over my face. |
| 7 | I get in a real stupor if someone calls me a glorified secretary. |
| 8 | I will go into great detail about some historical event and become greatly offended when interrupted. |
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