Scribe

Literacy in Glorantha is largely confined to a small elite of nobles, priests, and scribes. Scribes serve as the equivalent of common civil professions—lawyer, teacher, bureaucrat, accountant, engineer, scholar, and so on—and are typically in the service of a Knowledge Temple or as part of the household of a ruler.

Homelands: All (Prax is only Pavis).

Occupational Skills: Speak (any) +10%, Lore (any) +30%, Bureaucracy +30%, Lore (any) +10%, Customs (any) +30%, Read/Write (any) +30%, Library Use +10%, Read/ Write (own language) +50%, Evaluate +10%.

Standard of Living: Free

Base Income: Depends on occupational skill used: Bureaucracy = 200 L base income; Alchemy or Customs = 160 L base income; Read/Write = 120 L base income.

Cults: Lhankor Mhy, Seven Mothers.

Favored Passions: Loyalty (temple) or Loyalty (tribe).

Ransom: 1000 L.

Equipment: Writing implements and materials (with small wooden carrying case), three bundles of reports and notes worth 100 L, blank parchments worth 50 L, a tin disk carved with the calendar, an old letter of introduction from a senior scribe, a bronze dagger, 80 L in coin.

Type

Public Services