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Lorehold Student

BackgroundSCCp. 312014
Skill proficiencies
history, religion

Feature: Lorehold Initiate

You gain the Strixhaven Initiate feat and must choose Lorehold within it.

In addition, if you have the Spellcasting or Pact Magic feature, the spells on the Lorehold Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.)

Lorehold Spells

Spell LevelSpells
1stComprehend Languages, Identify
2ndBorrowed Knowledge, Locate Object
3rdSpeak with Dead, Spirit Guardians
4thArcane Eye, Stone Shape
5thFlame Strike, Legend Lore

Consider customizing how your spells look when you cast them. Your Lorehold spells might create displays of golden light. You might use a tome or a scroll as a spellcasting focus, and your spell effects might reflect the appearance of the reference books you study.

Building a Lorehold Character

Any class or subclass that deals with knowledge of the past can be a good fit in Lorehold. Bards thrive in Lorehold, and wizards (particularly those of the School of Divination) are numerous among its students. Clerics (often with the Knowledge or Light domains) are also quite common.

For a more unusual take on a Lorehold student, you could consider playing a barbarian with a primal connection to the past (perhaps adopting the Path of the Ancestral Guardian from Xanathar's Guide to Everything) or a paladin whose Oath of the Ancients gives a concrete link to history.

Suggested Characteristics

Methodical historians and daring adventurers alike can be found among the ranks of Lorehold college. The Lorehold Personality Traits table suggests a variety of traits you might adopt for your character.

Lorehold Personality Traits

d6Personality Trait
1I thrive on esoteric lore. The more obscure the historical references I can include in everyday conversation, the better.
2By searching for these lost artifacts, I hope to find who I really am along the way.
3I can barely go a minute without talking about my research. I have so much knowledge in my head, and it needs to be let out somewhere!
4The spirits of the dead are so much more interesting to talk with than living classmates.
5I can speak eloquently about the historical ramifications of an ancient war. But ask me to add two-digit numbers together, and I'm a mess.
6In the end, it's all just entropy. Everything falls apart someday.

Lorehold Trinkets

When you make your character, you may roll once on the Lorehold Trinkets table, instead of on the Trinkets table in the Player's Handbook, for your starting trinket.

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