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not sure how dnd lore works but i want to know your take on a scholar orc
So i had an immediate reaction to this. Scholars are called Sages in the DND handbook and it is a background which leaves the class open to me. Sages are usually associated with Wizards but i think i am going to. Shake It Up a little. just a little!!
When you're fed supposed truths about yourself for long enough, you eventually begin to believe them. Urul knows he is dumb because people tell him he is. Even people he's never met. "You're just a big dumb orc, what could you possibly know about magic?" But Urul wants to know. He's been searching for truths about the universe for years now, reading what tombs he can get his hands on from the outskirts of towns and big cities and consistently praying to Aureon to grant him wisdom and intellect. He knows devotees of Aureon are usually wizards, and in most case also bureaucrats, but this doesn't stop him. But no matter how much he learns, people still call him dumb. And after he is assaulted by a group of adventurers when Urul attempts to enter the library in town for the first tome, he tearfully visits his alter, and he wishes that he would have been born human so that he wouldn't have been made so dumb. But in a vision, he is visited by Aureon. His undying dedication not only to him but the pursuit of knowledge even in the face of constant adversity over the years has impressed him, and he urges Urul to take up his mantle, to spread his divine word. To show the world an orc is just as capable as a gnome. Urul is still discriminated against, but he is strengthened by what his god told him the first time he spoke to him. "You aren't dumb. You never have been."
Send me a class and a background and i'll write a brief description of a character fitting that description :0 !!
#now. i want to say in addition to this.#that intellegence doesnt actually define worth#it is just that in this case#urul was never actually dumb#its just like. orc racism.#and he needed the encouragement to understand that he is smart and is worthy of knwoledge.#this isnt to say he is more worthy or better than orcs who happen to be unintelligent#this is more a story about learning your worth and personal strengths and loving yourself than valuing knowledge as the only factor of wort#hope thats clear.#he was a smart guy. in my head he is similar to that one post#of an orc who was like Grog dumb! grog can only pick up on the surface themes of Ulysses by James Joyce and not the deeper meanings!#he thinks hes stupid because thats what hes been told. so he seeks more and more information only to be told hes still dumb#anyways i hope you like this. it might be a little um. low level. i wasnt a hundred percent sure where to go with this one but#it was the one i could flesh out best#okay baaiiiiiiii! ^_^
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