Lore Master Backgrounds

You were apprenticed to a wandering lore master who travelled righting wrongs as they fled from their past.

You studied in the nation’s foremost academy, having passed its ruthless entrance exam.

You were self-taught from the books hidden away in your parent’s secret room.

You were seconded to a special unit of the military during your active duty due to your arcane potential.

You learnt from the spirits from another Realm, who tutored you in your dreams or in your trips to the local woods or graveyard.

Your parents were an arcanist and warrior of some repute who taught you in your evenings.

I focus on well-practiced combat form, using weapons and magic along premeditated routes.

I tend to use protection and abjuration spells to bolster my defenses, so I can focus on my weapons.

I focus on overwhelming offense with evocation spells placed between my weapon strikes.

My priority is battlefield control prioritizing spells to alter the field, to give my allies the advantage.

I use magic to quickly get around the battlefield rather than using spells. Instead prioritizing my blade work.

My style is constantly changing and learning from my opponents and their own strategies. Analysing their strengths and weaknesses, their failures, and successes.

Your teacher was an ageing lore master who knew they were close to death and so wished to pass on their knowledge to another.

You were taught by a whole faculty of teachers, each granting you part of their vast knowledge.

Your parents taught you everything you know, teaching you in secret.

You learnt under a hired blade. While he was only meant to teach you blade work, he instead spent time in secret helping you develop your own style, combining your arcane talents with your bladework.

You learnt from the entities from another Realm though their reasons remain a mystery.

You had no teacher, only yourself to push you onwards.

I prefer a gemstone I can attach to my outfit. It allows me to operate undetected by those seeking magic users.

I prefer my weapon to be my focus, letting it be not just an extension of myself in martial combat but in spellcasting too.

I use a staff as my focus, learning how to use it in combat alongside my blade as both a weapon and as a method of centering my spellcasting.

I have a wand given to me by my mother. I find it help calm and focus me in the most chaotic of situations.

I use a rod as my preferred focus. I made it to suit my costume for when I am performing for the crowd.

I use a crystalline medium that floats around me in combat coming to me when I call upon it for spell casting.

You do not plan. You rush in and try to break your opponent with brute force and overwhelming magic, as quickly as possible. A dead foe is one who cannot harm yourself or others.

You like to get in your foes’ heads. You throw insults and weave illusions to disorient your foes. You fight to win and to live.

You are the planner. Every step and movement are calculated and controlled. You try to read your foes for their intended moves while trying to avoid giving away anything about your own. With a spell ready to counter any move they make.

You are full of energy and passion. You try witty remarks with your foes, have fun with them as you fight. For you fight for the joy of fighting and nothing more.

You are like clockwork. You have drilled from a young age on combat forms. You know each move and their counters and progressions. You know which spell should be attached to each form. You follow these procedures but can struggle when things break these patterns.

You are bored. You give nothing away but that is because for you this is no challenge. No one interests you, for no one has ever made you sweat. You own the battlefield, and you know it.

You fight like a graceful dancer. Each move is beautiful, elegant, an art piece of its own. Each spell extenuating your martial prowess. Making your whole actions an art piece of beautiful majesty and power.

You are adaptable, ever changing. It is not that you do not plan, rather you are constantly planning and assessing in the moment. Adjusting for each change that occurs, rarely committing to actions that take more than a moment to perform.