Lore Keeper Background
RARE BACKGROUND
Description: As a Lore Keeper, your role has been to collect and preserve stories, myths, legends, and histories. Unlike Sages or Researchers who focus on discovery, or Entertainers who thrive on performance, you are dedicated to safeguarding and disseminating knowledge. Your journey into the realm of lore might have started with a passion for books, a keen interest in listening to elders' tales, or growing up amidst stories in a tavern setting. Your exceptional memory for history and esoteric knowledge has made you a living archive of information. Recognized as a repository of lore, you might hold a position of trust in your tribe, village, organization, or even a kingdom, tasked with safekeeping and continually learning more.
Background Traits
- Ability Boosts: One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free ability boost.
- Skills: You're trained in two of the following skills: Arcana, History, Nature, Performance, or Society.
- Feat: You gain the Dubious Knowledge skill feat, reflecting your broad, albeit sometimes uncertain, knowledge base.
- Languages: You gain one additional language of your choice.
Special Ability - Open Ear: Your reputation as a Lore Keeper opens doors to knowledge wherever you go. In any society, you can find individuals willing to share their stories with you. Your respect for their traditions fosters trust, allowing you to unearth stories and information that might otherwise remain hidden. This ability enhances your ability to gather information and discover hidden caches of knowledge, be they in written, spoken, or other forms.
Specialization Lore Keepers often have a particular focus or method in their pursuit of knowledge. Choose one or more specializations to represent the primary sources of your lore:
- Songs/Music: Your knowledge is rooted in musical and lyrical traditions.
- Books: You collect and study written works.
- Arcane Scrolls: Magical texts are your specialty.
- Folk Tales: You specialize in oral traditions and storytelling.
- Ancient Runes: You decipher and understand ancient symbols and languages.
- City Records: Your expertise lies in the bureaucratic and recorded histories of civilizations.