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:'''Watcher’s Eye.''' Your experience in enforcing the law, and dealing with lawbreakers, gives you a feel for local laws and criminals. You can easily find the local outpost of the watch or a similar organization, and just as easily pick out the dens of criminal activity in a community, although you’re more likely to be welcome in the former locations rather than the latter. Additionally, you have advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks. | :'''Watcher’s Eye.''' Your experience in enforcing the law, and dealing with lawbreakers, gives you a feel for local laws and criminals. You can easily find the local outpost of the watch or a similar organization, and just as easily pick out the dens of criminal activity in a community, although you’re more likely to be welcome in the former locations rather than the latter. Additionally, you have advantage on Intelligence (Investigation) checks. | ||
Cloistered Scholar | === 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 Drakomere’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. | As a child, you were inquisitive when your playmates were possessive or raucous. In your formative years, you found your way to one of Drakomere’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. | ||
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:'''Library Access' | :'''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. | :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 in Drakomere, as professional courtesy shown to a fellow scholar. You also know the Amanuenseus cantrip and use your Intelligence modifier for your spellcasting ability. | :Additionally, you are likely to gain preferential treatment at other libraries in Drakomere, as professional courtesy shown to a fellow scholar. You also know the Amanuenseus cantrip and use your Intelligence modifier for your spellcasting ability. | ||