Forbidden Researcher

You have a drive. A drive to research things that people might have made against the laws of your land, maybe immoral by nature, or even down right horrific! But you. You want to research and develop it. This can range from the study of a poison bomb that has been outlawed from a war, the studies of magic like necromancy or worse magic that happened during Mystril's fall or the lack of magic that creates new lifeforms, or the worst of all studying how to put demons under your control. Maybe even a Arch demon or two? Well forbidden researching comes with difficulty. Hope you learn from your mistakes and not your mistakes learn from you.

Skill Proficiencies: Choose one from Arcana, History, Animal Handling, or Persuasion

Then choose one from Nature, Religion, Medicine, Deception

Tool Proficiencies: Choose two types of artisan’s tools.

Equipment: An Izzet insignia, one set of artisan’s tools, A book filled with forbidden research notes, a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 5 gp

Spell List

For you, the spells on this table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.)

Spell Level	Spells
Cantrip	produce flame, shocking grasp
1st	chaos bolt, create or destroy water, unseen servant
2nd	heat metal, rope trick
3rd	call lightning, elemental weapon, glyph of warding
4th	conjure minor elementals, divination, otiluke's resilient sphere
5th	animate objects, conjure elemental

These spells can be gained from researching magic, messing with the weave to submit to you, or even using other creatures to recreate these spells through blood magic.

If you use an arcane focus, it probably takes the form of an intricate device that could include many different forms, if your into the more lycanthrop it's wolves bane or totem, if it's more blood magic or sacrificial it can be a coin soaked in blood and forged with bone or different viles of blood, and even your artisan tool that holds close to your research.

Suggested Characteristics

Members of the Izzet League embody some combination of chaotic, frenetic energy with intellectual curiosity, in varying proportions. Some are committed to academic pursuits, and others just like explosions.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I have a hard time staying focused on … oh, and my brain tends to jump from one … did I mention focus?
2	I get really excited about my ideas and I can’t wait to talk about them and start putting them into practice and tinkering with them and I want to tell you about how exciting it all is!
3	It’s not magic — or anything, really — if you do it only halfway. Whatever I do, I give it all I’ve got.
4	I do what my gut tells me.
5	Life’s an experiment, and I can’t wait to see what happens.
6	I pepper my speech with the incomprehensible jargon of my trade, like mizzium droplets inserted into a weird-field suspension.
7	Great ideas are fine, but great results are what counts.
8	If you can guess what I’m about to do, that means I’ve run out of imagination.

d6	Ideal
1	Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2	Creativity. Half the world’s troubles come from stodgy thinking, stuck in the past. We need innovative solutions. (Chaotic)
3	Discovery. Every experiment has the potential to reveal more secrets of the multiverse. (Any)
4	Science. A rigorous application of logical principles and protocols will lead us toward progress more surely than any belief system. (Lawful)
5	Fun. I love my job! Despite the dangerous working conditions, there’s nothing I’d rather do. (Chaotic)
6	Power. Someday I’ll find or create the magic that will make me the most powerful being in Ravnica. (Evil)

d6	Bond
1	I have dedicated my life to finding a solution to a scientific problem.
2	I’ll never forget the laboratory where I learned my skills, or the other attendants who learned alongside me.
3	I’m convinced it was sabotage that destroyed my first laboratory and killed many of my friends, and I seek revenge against whoever did it.
4	I have the schematics for an invention that I hope to build one day, once I have the necessary resources.
5	A fellow student and I are racing to solve the same scientific puzzle.
6	I would do anything the guildmaster told me to do.

d6	Flaw
1	If there’s a plan, I’ll probably forget it. If I don’t forget it, I’ll probably ignore it.
2	I get bored easily, and if nothing is happening I’ll make something happen.
3	Nothing is ever simple, and if it seems simple, I’ll find a way to make it complicated.
4	I tend to ignore sleep for days when I’m conducting research, often at the expense of my own health and safety.
5	I’m convinced there’s not a soul in Ravnica, except maybe the great Niv-Mizzet, who can match my boundless intellect.
6	I’m incapable of admitting a flaw in my logic.

Contacts

The laboratories of the Izzet League are constantly starting up new projects and dissolving old ones, so it’s easy for even the lowliest attendant to make friends (and enemies) in laboratories across Ravnica.

Roll twice on the Izzet Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Izzet Contacts table.

d8	Contact
1	An older relative is currently a teacher that is in a school of some form of magic.
2	I know a fey that finds your research interesting.
3	A sibling is the head of a laboratory doing exotic research.
4	A former colleague is now an attendant in a laboratory in a major crafting guild.
5	I’m in regular communication with someone who set me on the course of my life and research.
6	A past flame that was from school or you met somewhere.
7	As an attendant, I had a fierce rivalry with another attendant for our supervisor’s attention.
8	Your local library head owner, that lets you check the forbidden sections when they can.

d10	Non-contact
1	An specialist that seems interested in my work.
2	Before you set down the path of the forbidden studies, you had a teacher from your school. They every now and then check up on you.
3	One of your old classmates stole your notes, you two didn't leave on the best terms. But you randomly encounter each other every now and then.
4	A assassin has left death threats, if you continue your research.
5	You helped a captain of a guard/army gain some new power/weapon, with your research.
6	Roll an additional contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.
7	A banker or royalty that gave you a down payment on your research materials.
8	You have a relative that is currently working on some other type of studies. You two get along pretty well.
9	A former attendant from the same laboratory ran off to join another group, and we get into a big argument every time we run into each other.
10	I compare notes and techniques with another researcher over lunch sometimes.