You are privileged to be among the few people who have been taught how to Read and Write. You have taken advantage of these abilities at every opportunity. Because you feel blessed by this privilege you have anyways done your best to spread and share knowledge. You have an affinity for languages, especially in written form and your handwriting is art. The Wykepedia has given you the opportunity to use your skills for the betterment of the world at large by making copies of Books.
Some might think that this is tedious work but you have access to the largest collection of books in the world and your job is to create more books. What could be better? This work has also served to improve your manual dexterity and your knowledge of some esoteric subjects.
- Skill Proficiencies: Sleight of Hand, plus your choice of one from among History, Nature, and Religion
- Tool Proficiencies: Forgery Kit
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: The hooded scribe’s robes of your Acuin's Wykepedia, a writing kit (small pouch with a quill, ink, folded parchment, and a small penknife), a borrowed book on the subject of your current study, and a pouch containing 10 gp
Though others must often endure extensive interviews and significant fees to gain access to even the most common archives in your library, you have free and easy access to the majority of the library, though it might also have repositories of lore that are too valuable, magical, or secret to permit anyone immediate access.
You have a working knowledge of your library's personnel and bureaucracy, and you know how to navigate those connections with some ease.
Additionally, you are likely to gain preferential treatment at other libraries across the world, as professional courtesy shown to a fellow scholar.
Suggested Characteristics
Use the tables for the scribe background below as the basis for your traits and motivations, modifying the entries when appropriate to suit your identity as a cloistered scholar.
Your bond is almost certainly associated either with the place where you grew up or with the knowledge you hope to acquire through adventuring. Your ideal is no doubt related to how you view the quest for knowledge and truth—perhaps as a worthy goal in itself, or maybe as a means to a desirable end.
| d6 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dependable, disciplined and achievement-focused. |
| 2 | Patience is a virtue |
| 3 | I’m used to helping out those who aren’t as smart as I am, and I patiently explain anything and everything to others. |
| 4 | Shy around strangers |
| 5 | You always like to see a task to its completion |
| 6 | Sometimes you focus exclusively on your task, you are not a multi-tasker |
| d5 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Knowledge. The path to power and self-improvement is through knowledge. |
| 2 | Preservation of knowledge is a noble goal. |
| 3 | Logic. Emotions must not cloud our logical thinking. |
| 4 | Words are art |
| 5 | Self-Improvement. The goal of a life of study is the betterment of oneself. |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is my duty to protect my students. |
| 2 | You helped ... learn about ... |
| 3 | I work to preserve a library, university, scriptorium, or monastery. |
| 4 | My life’s work is a series of tomes related to a specific field of lore. |
| 5 | I’ve been searching my whole life for the answer to a certain question. |
| 6 | As a favor to ... I made of copy of ... without informing my superiors |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I messed up an assignment and ... |
| 2 | I have a problem with ... and it caused ... |
| 3 | I had a traumatic experience that caused me to ... |
| 4 | I got caught ... |
| 5 | Everybody thinks that I ... |
| 6 | Books were destroyed becuase I ... |
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