Chronicler

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As a chronicler, you have the task of remembering everything and keeping record. You may be a person obsessed with detail, or maybe a curious scholar looking for all the parts of a story you are invested in writing down. A chronicler has an intense desire to record wholly and accurately. Sometimes, it is an innate obsession. Other times, they are impacted by events that turn them to fervent followers of the ways of chronicling.


When making a character of this background, be aware that chroniclers are rarely of the evil alignment. The rare ones that are are usually those who have a revisionist agenda of sorts and wish to record for the sake of recording a specified narrative rather than a truth. Usually, chroniclers are neutral or good, desiring to record and chronicle for the sake of the act, or for informatory purposes for others. Often times, a chronicler is a hiree from a more noble, literate level of society sent on a paid task. Some chroniclers are just drawn to what they do, moving on to write books and manuscripts of history.


NOTE: Some backgrounds have options to choose from. Please read carefully. You may not get every proficiency listed below, as some may be a choice between one or the other.

  • Stat Options (choose either +2 in one stat and +1 in another, OR +1 in all three): Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom
  • Skill Proficiencies (your choice of TWO): Perception, Insight, or Investigation
  • Tool Proficiencies: Calligrapher's Supplies
  • Languages: Two Standard languages of choice.

  • Background Keepsake: A bound handwritten book of your compiled chronicles
  • Background Gold: 15gp.

Origin Feat

Origin Researcher

When doing Out of Quest Research with a skill you are proficient in, you spend 1 less downtime on the research. This increases to 2 less downtime at 5th level.


Suggested Characteristics

Chronicle Type

What type of chronicle does your character keep? If it's hired work, is it of historical nature? Are you even just a bookkeeper?


1 Written History

2 Municipal Records

3 Archaeology

4 Biographies

5 Current Events

6 Commercial Records


Personality

Please select TWO from the list below.

d8 Personality Trait
1 I like to stay up late to do projects for hours on end.
2 An immaculate personal space is a must. I will often take a lot of time to ensure this.
3 Everything must be described and written accurately. I tend to like correcting people if even their grammar is amiss.
4 I'm very well read so that makes me smarter than others. So I act like it.
5 Niceties get me what I want. Thus I like being courteous.
6 Everything has deeper stories. I'll ask endlessly to get those answers.
7 I'm a no-nonsense person. Don't ask me to entertain frivolities.
8 Due to having stayed in with just books- I like being alone rather than around rambunctious sorts.

Ideal

Please select one from the list below.

d6 Ideal Trait
1 Accuracy. My duty is to record all that has happened as objectively as possible.
2 Job-Driven. This is just business. Nothing personal.
3 Trickster. Hahahaha- I wonder how I can best manipulate words to confuse the heck out of people?
4 Storyteller. What we write as chroniclers is what will tell people of what happened.
5 Deceiver. There's a story here I want to be told my way- even if it's not exactly what happened.
6 Randomness. I just like writing for the game. So I'll write whatever.

Bond

Please select one from the list below.

d6 Bond Trait
1 I have strong tendencies toward the truth and knowledge of it.
2 I take a lot of odd requests for coin.
3 Nothing bothers me more than misinterpretations of what I write.
4 My family wanted me to be a scholar. I hope I'm not disappointing them
5 After a tremulous life- this is much more peaceful an occupation.
6 Friends are resources to better myself as a person and a recorder.

Flaw

Please select one from the list below.

d6 Flaw Trait
1 I'm such a grammar nut that it's overbearingly annoying.
2 People don't appreciate my dry or dark humor- which I quip out every other minute.
3 I have a deadly fear- which is so bad it cripples me if I encounter it.
4 I can be a real snobby turn off.
5 Money is the only issue I like to take into account.
6 I just really like misleading people with words.