Your studies took you to the very edges of knowledge: into blasphemous tomes, forgotten rituals, and truths that twist the mind. Most laugh at your warnings or dismiss your findings. But you know what stirs in the dark.
Did you find your lore in a ruined library or from a forbidden teacher? Do you seek to protect the world from what you know – or unleash it? What cost have you already paid for your curiosity?
- Equipment. Censer, an occult trinket, up to 6 weighty tomes of forbidden/esoteric lore, traveler’s clothes.
- Tools & Languages. None
- Backround Knowledge. You have advantage on ability checks related to cults, otherwordly creatures, and occult science and rituals.
- Forbidden Insights. Once per long rest, you can cast the spell Protection from Otherworldly Presence without using spell slots, or material components. When you investigate a magic item or effect, you learn one secret about it beyond the check’s normal result (e.g., its creator, curse, or history).