💼Career Boy

You built yourself into a professional instrument: polished, punctual, overqualified, and barely holding together. Whether serving a ministry, academy, guild, or noble office, you learned to survive through competence, etiquette, and obsessive productivity. Your work gives you status and structure, but it also lets you avoid the messier question of who you are when no one is evaluating you.

I can never fight the feeling, I stay up all night
Workin' so hard after hours 'til I see the sunlight
Stuck up in the office tower, you know it's pure joy
And that's my superpower, I'm a career boy

Career boy
You know they got me working overtime, yeah
Career boy
And you know I got that one track mind, oh-yeah

Even after I get what I want, I can see, baby-baby
That it's lonely at the top, yeah
Career boy
Nothing is ever gonna make me stop

Ability Scores:

Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma

Feat:

Institutional Initiate: Your magic comes from formal training, sanctioned ritual, and practical exposure to structured magical doctrine. You learned a small set of spells used by officials, scholars, healers, advocates, or civil servants to advise, protect, stabilize, and command. 

You learn two cantrips of your choice from the Cleric spell list. You learn one 1st-level spell from the Cleric list. You can cast it once without a spell slot and regain the ability to do so after a long rest. After that, you may use a spell slot to cast the spell again. Your spellcasting ability for these spells is Wisdom.

Formal Training: Your career has sharpened the abilities most useful to institutional success. Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma score by 2 and a different one by 1, or increase all three ability scores by 1.

Professional Courtesy: Your credentials, manners, and reputation for competence allow you to navigate formal institutions with unusual ease. You know how to navigate formal institutions, request records, secure minor appointments, and approach officials through proper channels. This does not grant automatic access to secrets, restricted archives, classified documents, or powerful officials.

Skill Proficiencies:

You gain proficiency in Persuasion and Investigation

Tool Proficiencies:

You gain proficiency with Cartographer's Tools, Calligrapher's Supplies, or a Forgery Kit.

Equipment:

You gain either (A) Calligrapher's Supplies, a Book (Ledger), Business Cards (250), Parchment (10 sheets), Fine Clothes, and 50 gp; or (B) 100 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

d6	Personality Trait
1	I correct imprecise statements before I realize I am doing it.
2	I speak carefully, even when I am furious.
3	I become uncomfortable when a room has no clear authority structure.
4	I treat punctuality as a moral issue.
5	I have a business card for circumstances that absolutely do not require one.
6	I would rather prepare for six hours than improvise for six seconds.

d6	Ideal
1	Ambition. Advancement is proof that my work matters.
2	Competence. Good intentions are worthless without skill.
3	Precision. Carelessness causes harm.
4	Duty. A responsibility accepted must be fulfilled.
5	Professionalism. Standards exist for a reason.
6	Efficiency. Wasted time is wasted life.

d6	Bond
1	I am determined to prove I belong among my peers.
2	My work connects me to a powerful institution I cannot easily leave.
3	I keep a record, ledger, or portfolio that represents years of effort.
4	I protect the people who depend on the system but have no power within it.
5	My reputation is the only shield I have.
6	I am responsible for a file, secret, case, or project others would exploit.

d6	Flaw
1	I am terrified of being seen as incompetent.
2	I would rather suffer quietly than look unprofessional.
3	I equate rest with failure.
4	I trust procedure more than people.
5	I avoid emotional problems by working harder.
6	I can become cruel when someone wastes my time.