"I'm sorry, but you will never match my skill, not in this age or the next. I have had my hand at the sword since I was barely off the ground, while you were shoveling dirt till you were 23!"
-Sir Knight, Friedrich de Leupold
Expanded Backgrounds: Education
Education is the training that your character underwent. This can be formal in nature, like an academy education, but most people at this time in history (and at most times in history) underwent more practical educations, apprenticeships, street smarts, etc.
Education will grant a character a stat increase of +1 in a certain attribute. Unlike with Culture or Upbringing, education grants only a benefit here, not a drawback, representing the purely beneficial nature of receiving an education. Further, it will grant you a skill proficiency and either a tool proficiency or a language, depending on the type of education. The only exception to this is the “Uneducated” option.
The Educations you can choose for your background are all listed below, simply click on them to find out more:
Acolyte Training: Training in the clergy, monastery, or other such religious organization.
Civil Servant Training: Training for jobs in an official government capacity.
Farmhand Experience: Experience working on the farm, in the fields, or in agriculture more generally.
Formal Education: Education in a formal setting, such as a school, academy, university, or by a tutor.
Frontier Experience: Experience with living on the frontier, in the tutelage of a hardened mentor.
Guild Apprenticeship: An apprenticeship in a guild or similar institution, working with a craft or artisan profession.
Hermetic Tradition: Time spent living in the tutelage of hermits, far removed from all other people.
Magi Apprenticeship: An apprenticeship under the guidance of a wizard, druid, or other powerful magical user.
Martial Apprenticeship: Training under the tutelage of a warrior, perhaps as a paige or other novice.
Mercantile Experience: Experience with running a shop, managing money, or something similar in the business world.
Nautical Experience: Experience on the high seas, usually as a cabin-boy or cabin-girl, or else helping out fishermen or other such professions.
Self-Taught: Careful and rigorous self-study, usually by reading books, observing others, or merely by trial and error.
Street Smarts: The school of hard knocks as it were, being taught and supervised by a mentor criminal or other street slinger.
Uneducated: Though rare, some unlucky individuals lack any sort of education, training, or any sort of rigorous preparation for life.
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