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Cloistered Scholar

As a child, you were inquisitive when your playmates were possessive or raucous. In your formative years, you found your way to one of Avalor's great institutes of learning, where you were apprenticed and taught that knowledge is a more valuable treasure than gold or gems. Now you are ready to leave your home – not to abandon it, but to quest for new lore to add to its storehouse of knowledge.   Avalor is host to a handful of fonts of knowledge. Some of the most well known include Aberran's Arcanum Academy, whose libraries are always in need of workers and attendants, some of whom rise through the ranks to assume roles of greater responsibility and prominence.   Perhaps instead you were taken in by the scholars of the Seekers Consortium or Ryūshima's Chiba Clan, and now you have struck out to increase your knowledge and to make yourself available to help those in other places who seek your expertise. You might be one of the few who aid government registries, helping to catalogue and maintain records of the information that arrives daily from different nations across Avalor.   Skill Proficiencies: History, plus your choice of one from among Arcana, Nature, and Religion   Languages: Two of your choice   Equipment: The scholar's robes of your cloister, a writing kit (small pouch with a quill, a bottle of ink, folded parchment, and a small penknife), a borrowed book on the subject of your current study, and a pouch containing 10gp  

Feature: Library Access

Though others must often endure extensive interviews and significant fees to gain access to even the most common archives in your library, you have free and easy access to the majority of the library, though it might also have repositories of lore that are too valuable, magical, or secret to permit anyone immediate access.   You have a working knowledge of your cloister's personnel and bureaucracy, and you know how to navigate those connections with some ease.   Additionally, you are likely to gain preferential treatment at other libraries across the Realms, as professional courtesy shown to a fellow scholar.  

Suggested Characteristics

Your bond is almost certainly associated either with the place where you grew up or with the knowledge you hope to acquire through adventuring. Your ideal is no doubt related to how you view the quest for knowledge and truth – perhaps as a worthy goal in itself, or maybe as a means to a desirable end.

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