Arcane Naturalist

You have dedicated your life to cataloging the natural world, but your eyes are trained to look for the invisible threads of magic that weave through it. Funded and educated by prestigious colleges of learned wizards, your expeditions come with highly specific, often bizarre demands. While other naturalists study the migration of common elk, you are tasked with tracking the seasonal shedding of griffon feathers, mapping ecosystems warped by ancient ley lines, and harvesting the highly volatile venom of phase spiders.

Your expertise bridges the gap between naturalism, empirical science and arcane theory. The wizards in their towers rely on your fieldwork to supply their rare spell components, prove their hypotheses on transmutation biomimicry, and warn them when local flora indicates the presence of a sleeping magical anomaly. You adventure because the deepest secrets of the arcane are not found in dusty library tomes, but out in the untamed, breathing world.

Ability Scores: Intelligence, Wisdom, Constitution

Feat: Magic Initiate (Wizard)

Skill Proficiencies: Select two of Arcana, Nature, Animal Handling, and Perception

Tool Proficiencies: Calligrapher's Supplies

Equipment: Calligrapher's Supplies, Book (Your Illustrated Field Journal), Parchment (10 sheets), Paper (10 sheets), Alchemical Ink and Ink Pen, Traveler's Clothes, Tent, 7 GP