You are or were until recently a student at one of the great universities of your world. Your education has been in the classics of literature, the study of languages, the classics of philosophy, the great works of theology, logical theorems, and perhaps the fundamentals of arcane theory. You have a token or emblem with the crest or the motto of your alma matter blazoned upon it.

Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, History , Religion, Nature, or Medicine

Suggested Characteristics

Later

d8	Personality Trait
1	I'm a bookish person who prefers the company of long dead heroes on the page to real life ones in the flesh.
2	I'm something of gadfly, constantly questioning authorities of every kind.
3	My love of formal logic has made me a rigorous and logical thinker. I apply complex logic to even simple situations.
4	I constantly brag about the prestigious school or professor I studied at or with.
5	I'm a romantic who is wholly taken with old fashioned chivalric romances. I long to be a knight of the mind!
6	I'm so used to pulling all nighters that I have a hard time waking up.
7	I've picked up a bad drinking or smoking habit from a much beloved professor.
8	I'm obsessed with lost texts and I'm constantly checking dusty old libraries for them. I turn up my nose at those who enjoy contemporary literature or - Gods forbid - romances.

d6	Ideal
1	Hedonism, love of knowledge, love of honour, or love of the flesh makes life worth living.
2	Piety, my studies have proven to me what I always knew, a pious life is a happy life.
3	Knowledge, Knowledge is power and my studies have taught me how best to wield the power that knowledge can grant.
4	Virtue, the ancient classics teach that a virtuous life is the only life worth living.
5	Stoicism, to remain calm in the face of a world of vice and terror is the duty of a studious soul.
6	Eternal Life, the texts make clear that the eternal life promised by priests is not worth the while, so I intend to make myself a paradise in this life. Better to rule my own life than serve for another after death.

d6	Bond
1	My thesis requires more field work to complete. I need to finish it to graduate.
2	A much beloved professor left me an unfinished manuscript. I must finish their life's work.
3	I'm madly in love with one of my professors and I intend to prove one of their theories so as to impress them.
4	My parents never thought that my education was a worth while pursuit. Having graduated, I'm trying to prove them wrong.
5	An obscure manuscript piqued my interests during my studies. I need discover who wrote it.
6	I hope to create a work worthy of earning me a professorship.

d6	Flaw
1	I'm given over to drink so as to cope with the weight of the my studies.
2	My studies have made me incredibly paranoid that some rival will steal my precious research.
3	My burgeoning atheism causes me to loudly and frequently denounce the devout as fools.
4	I have crippling social anxiety and I'm prone to bouts of uncontrolled weeping.
5	I reject things I do not understand out of hand.
6	I am always right.