Ghostwriter

Academic talent turned toward illicit ends built an underground trade ghostwriting and forging work for desperate classmates and staff.

uncommon

Granted Features

Automatic:

Reading a liar becomes a contest of wits, letting your own skill at deception catch a smooth talker mid-conversation.

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

While you enjoy scholastic success, you lack either academic aspirations or academic integrity, and you instead conduct your illicit business of ghostwriting at your school. When desperate students and staff bedeviled by deadlines or quotas seek your services, their academic legitimacy is underpinned by your expertise in ghostwriting and forgery. The Convocation is a treasure trove of new clients and inspirations for someone of your particular skills.

Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Dexterity or Intelligence, and one is a free attribute boost.

You're trained in Society. You're also trained in the Scribing Lore skill or a Lore skill associated with your school. You gain the Experienced Professional skill feat.

Boosts DEX, INT

Trained Society · Lore Scribing Lore

Attribution

Pathfinder 2e

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