Student
As a child, you were inquisitive when your playmates were possessive or raucous. In your formative years, you went into the world of educational institutions, whether it be basic or higher learning. You may only have your high school diploma, or you're studying for your bachelor's. 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.
Skill Proficiencies History, plus your choice of one from among Arcana, Nature, and Religion
Tool Proficiencies None
Languages Two of your choice
Equipment A writing kit (a ballpoint pen, notebook, and a binder of papers), a borrowed book on the subject of your current study, a cellphone or laptop computer, and a pouch containing 10gp.
Lifestyle Poor to Modest
Features
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 student body and school faculty, and you know how to navigate those connections with some ease.
Additionally, you are likely to gain preferential treatment at other libraries near your hometown, as professional courtesy shown to a fellow student.
Suggested Characteristics
Use the tables for the sage background as the basis for your traits and motivations, modifying the entries when appropriate to suit your identity.
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.