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You either carry or have memorized a sacred text from your school, temple, or monastery, and its wisdom gives you insight that makes your attacks more devastating.
Your training has made you a martial performer.
Mathematics has always come easily for you, and you have always been able to "see the math" in the physical and magical world.
A tutor or private instructor guided you in learning your art, profession, or trade, and through your education, you became capable of teaching and guiding others.
For everything there is a price, and you are a negotiator at heart.
You lived your life as a merchant, buying and selling goods.
You plan and prepare everything in detail, and aren't good at improvising when things don't go as planned.
Your meticulous carefulness makes your bombs and extracts more potent.
Your first job was serving in a civilian militia in your hometown.
Your first job was serving in a civilian militia in your home town.
You've always found yourself in positions where others look up to you as a leader, and you can distinctly remember an event from your early childhood where you led several other children to accomplish a goal that each of you individually could not.
You've always found yourself in positions where others look up to you as a leader, and you can distinctly remember an event from your early childhood where you led several other children to accomplish a goal that each of you individually could not.
Your knowledge of nature informs your fighting style, and that style gives you insight into related aspects of the natural world.
Even when the chips are down, you keep on shooting.
You have made a solemn oath, and you pursue that oath with headstrong determination.
You are the harbinger of some future event.
The only thing extraordinary about your appearance is its ordinariness.
You grew up separated from your birth parents, and had to learn to watch out for yourself.
Driven from town after town because of your heritage, you have become adept at living apart from others.
Driven from town after town because of your heritage, you have become adept at living apart from others.