Codebreaker

A head for patterns and linguistics turns coded military dispatches and the ciphers of long-dead civilizations alike into solvable puzzles.

Granted Features

Automatic:

A quick ear for tongues adds new languages to a linguist's repertoire, with even more unlocked as their scholarship deepens.

A grasp of etiquette, law, and civic history helps a character scrape by in an unfamiliar city and make sense of written records.

Whether you're employed by a military organization to decipher coded messages sent by enemy factions or work independently to crack an enigma created by a past civilization, you have a head for patterns and linguistics. You might even use new clockwork devices to aid you in your efforts. Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost. You're trained in the Society skill and the Cryptography Lore skill. You gain the skill feat.

Boosts INT, WIS

Trained Society · Lore Cryptography Lore

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