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source: "[[ToV - Players Guide.pdf]]"
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You spent years researching a branch of study. Time spent in academic pursuits honed your mind, allowing you to view the world through an intellectual lens afforded to few.

Perhaps you were only recently a student eager to learn outside the classroom, a teacher who retired but wasn’t ready to stop hands-on learning, or a discredited researcher expelled but driven to prove your theories. Regardless, your way has always been lit by your keen mind, and you retain a desire to know more.

# Skill Proficiencies

Choose two from Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion.

# Additional Proficiencies

Learn two additional languages of your choice or gain proficiency with a tool or vehicle relevant to your field of study.

# Equipment

A bottle of ink, a quill, a small knife, a reference book on a highly specific subject, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp.

# Talent

You have spent time researching particular academic subjects at an institute of learning or under a knowledgeable teacher. Choose a talent from this list to represent your experience: Polyglot, Ritualist, or School Specialization.

# Adventuring Motivation

Most scholars spend their lives cloistered within libraries, laboratories, and workshops, immersed in academia. When you begin your adventures, consider why your character chose—or was driven—to leave a traditional lifestyle and brave the unknown.

| **d8** | **Adventuring Motivation**                                                                        |
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| 1      | The coin I need for my research comes from adventuring.                                           |
| 2      | Adventuring provides valuable field experience relevant to my study.                              |
| 3      | I will prove those fools wrong with my discoveries made through adventuring.                      |
| 4      | Adventuring pays the bills until I can prove the validity of my theories.                         |
| 5      | I can uncover lost or forbidden knowledge by adventuring for it. No institution can provide that! |
| 6      | Adventuring is the best way to collect data for my patron or employer.                            |
| 7      | Adventuring will lead me to the answers I desperately seek.                                       |
| 8      | Adventuring is a way to escape a life of academia I never wanted.                                 |