Understanding the Unfathomable; Magic Scholar Background

 Source Galaxy Guide pg. 98

The Starfall Galaxy is threaded with ley corridors, floating academies, and secretive guilds dedicated to dissecting the mysteries of cosmic magic. As a Magic Scholar, you may have completed a fellowship at the Riftspanner Consortium, survived a year in Farpoint’s digital astral library, or apprenticed under exiled star-mages who coalesce forgotten planetary relics.

Your story begins in domed classrooms surrounded by drifting satellites, where spell matrices are chalked onto windows overlooking nebulae. Students duel with cantrip-discs, and professors embroider philosophy into the warp and weft of quantum rituals.

Signature Customs: Vestments adorned with fractal diagrams, star-glyphs tattooed on knuckles, and soulbound journals full of observations and equations.

Connection to Starfall Lore: Your work can unlock Rift anomalies, decipher the relic technologies of extinct empires, or serve as the backbone for interstellar diplomacy—where a well-timed display of cosmic mastery is worth more than fleets.

Sub-Specialties: Rift-magic theorists, reality coders, stellar conjurers, and lorekeepers of forbidden planetary cults.


Magic Scholar Background

Choose two attribute boosts (one must be Intelligence or Wisdom, the other is free). You are trained in Arcana, Nature, Occultism, or Religion skill, based on your primary field of study and Academia Lore. You gain the Quick Identification skill feat.


Character Hooks

  • Did you earn your credentials through grueling practicals in zero-G sanctums, or bribe your way onto the guest list for a secret cabal’s ritual demonstration?

  • Do your research notes conceal subversive truths about the formation of the Starfall—truths others might kill to keep?

  • Are you exiled, laureled, or haunted by visions glimpsed through a laboratory’s hourglass anomaly?

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