Sage
Benefits
Ability Score Increases
+1 to Intelligence and one other ability score.
Adventures And Advancement
When you visit libraries and universities you tend to be asked for help in your role as a comparatively rough-and-tumble adventurer. After fetching a few bits of esoteric knowledge and settling a few academic disputes, you may be granted access to the restricted areas of the library (which contain darker secrets and deeper mysteries, such as those answerable with a DC 25 Arcana, Culture, Engineering, History, Nature, or Religion check).
Connection and Memento
Roll 1d10, choose, or make up your own.
Sage Connections
| d10 | Connection |
|---|---|
| 1 | Your rival who always seems to be one step ahead of you in the research race. |
| 2 | The college dean who banished you for conduct unbefitting a research fellow. |
| 3 | A former student of yours who has become a dangerous wizard. |
| 4 | The professor who took credit for your research. |
| 5 | The rival sage whose cruel nickname for you has made you a laughingstock. |
| 6 | The alchemist who will pay for bizarre monster trophies and other ingredients—no questions asked. |
| 7 | The peer with a competing cosmological theory that causes endless friendly bickering. |
| 8 | The noble who recognized your intelligence at a young age and sponsored your entrance into academia. |
| 9 | A talented apprentice who ran away after mastering magical power but not the theoretical foundation to control it. |
| 10 | The invading general who burned the library that was once your home. |
Sage Mementos
| d10 | Memento |
|---|---|
| 1 | A letter from a colleague asking for research help. |
| 2 | Your incomplete manuscript. |
| 3 | An ancient scroll in a language that no magic can decipher. |
| 4 | A copy of your highly unorthodox theoretical work that got you in so much trouble. |
| 5 | A list of the forbidden books that may answer your equally forbidden question. |
| 6 | A formula for a legendary magic item for which you have no ingredients. |
| 7 | An ancient manuscript of a famous literary work believed to have been lost; only you believe that it is genuine. |
| 8 | Your mentor's incomplete bestiary, encyclopedia, or other work that you vowed to complete. |
| 9 | Your prize possession: a magic quill pen that takes dictation. |
| 10 | The name of a book you need for your research that seems to be missing from every library you've visited. |
Equipment
Bottle of ink, pen, 50 sheets of parchment, common clothes.
Library Privileges
As a fellow or friend of several universities you have visiting access to the great libraries, most of which are off-limits to the general public. With enough time spent in a library, you can uncover most of the answers you seek (any question answerable with a DC 20 Arcana, Culture, Engineering, History, Nature, or Religion check).
Skill Proficiencies
History, and either Arcana, Culture, Engineering, or Religion.