Governments, rebel groups, and merchant empires - all need maps to exert control and influence. You bring order to uncharted lands by transcribing their details with quill and parchment, thus offering creating a measure of power where there once was none. Perhaps you are drawn by the unfounded or you simply seek to bring order from chaos.
Whatever your aims, a cartographer is an agent of discovery and control.

Skill Proficiencies: Investigation, Perception

Tool Proficiencies: Cartographer's tools

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A set of traveler's clothes, cartographer's tools, 10 sheets of parchment, 2 leather map cases, a scrap of a map to a place you have never been, and a coin purse containing 10 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Cartographers are defined by their life of travel and discovery.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I don't feel that I've truly understood something until I make a record of it.
2	I take great artistic pride in my work, often times preferring style and beauty over substance.
3	I'm driven by a wanderlust that led me away from my native land.
4	I am very passionate about my work – I once stabbed a man over an argument about proper map projection.
5	I’ve gained much perspective from my travels in faraway lands, and sometimes my native culture scarcely feels like home.
6	I like thorough definitions, sure things, and exacting clarity.
7	I’m not lost – I am exploring.
8	Discovery and the use of resources for my people are of higher concern than people or creatures native to that land

d6	Ideal
1	Awe. The wide world holds many incredible and beautiful places, and I’m happy to share these places with others. (Good)
2	Adventure. I am driven to discovery by a desire for new experience and excitement. (Chaos)
3	Greed. With discovery comes resources, and I stand to gain more than anybody. (Evil)
4	Civilization. Civilization and innovation propels us forward, and barbarism only holds us back. (Lawful)
5	Excellence. In all things, I take a certain pride in a job well done and mastery of one’s work. (Any)
6	Truth. Things must be represented the way they truly are, with no room for embellishment or obfuscation. (Neutral)

d6	Bond
1	My entire life has been spent looking for a place now lost to antiquity.
2	I once completed a set of maps which I will never give to the client who commissioned them.
3	I have a special love for the lands which I have surveyed, and I would fight for their preservation.
4	I am an established and respected member of my guild, and I value the esteem of my peers very highly.
5	I am obsessed with finding a new passage through the mountains or seas, and I have a few ideas about how to do it.
6	The marking of one location is absent from every map I make, because no one must learn of that place’s true whereabouts.

d6	Flaw
1	I tend to look at the bigger picture, and often overlook the small details.
2	I am easily distracted by the promise of information.
3	I am much more concerned with my legacy and prestige than the accuracy or quality of my work.
4	If I don’t deem something important, I ignore it entirely.
5	I can’t seem to put down roots, and I get anxious about being in one place for long.
6	I look down on people who have never travelled more than a few miles from where they were born.