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Tao alexis at 17:50, 19 March 2025

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Tao alexis at 23:16, 29 October 2023

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Tao alexis at 21:18, 28 October 2023

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 The majority of parents lack the resources necessary to provide their children with this type of training. Those in affluent and prestigious professions can easily afford it, but for many, the only viable option is to pursue an apprenticeship.  Still, such apprenticeships are highly coveted and challenging to secure.  For this reason, many characters belong to a somewhat privileged elite, who had the means to pay for their training.
-Nonetheless, even the children of [[Farming (sage ability)|farmers]], [[Labourer (hireling)|labourers]] or [[Launderer (profession)|washer-women]] may have such aptitude that they obtain the good wishes of a mentor, benefactor or indeed, a whole village who join together to assure that enough coin is raised for the character's full education.  None of this is meant to obligate a character to act in a certain manner, or dedicate their lives in a certain way — but it does provide some meaningful background to player characters who have come from poor families but are, nonetheless, [[Paladin (class)|paladins]], [[Illusionist (class)|illusionists]] or [[Druid (class)|druids]].
+Nonetheless, even the children of [[Farming (sage ability)|farmers]], [[Labourer (hireling)|labourers]] or [[Launderer (profession)|washer-women]] may have such aptitude that they obtain the good wishes of a mentor, benefactor or indeed, a whole [[Village|village]] who join together to assure that enough coin is raised for the character's full education.  None of this is meant to obligate a character to act in a certain manner, or dedicate their lives in a certain way — but it does provide some meaningful background to player characters who have come from poor families but are, nonetheless, [[Paladin (class)|paladins]], [[Illusionist (class)|illusionists]] or [[Druid (class)|druids]].
 == Training by Class ==

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 Though raised by families, classes are also associated with specific cultures and places within society.  The sort of upbringing an individual receives has no influence on their class abilities, but perhaps it helps to understand the backgrounds from which a given class often comes.
-'''Assassins.'''  Associated with [[Barracks|barracks]], the [[Beggar's Guild|beggar's guild]], [[Shipboard (range)|shipboard]] and [[Whorehouse|whorehouses]].  An [[Assassin (class)|assassin's]] training is often scattered and inconsistent, with time spent as a layabout or indulging in minor criminal participants.  Time in [[Gaol|gaols]], if not [[Prison|prison]], or in [[Poor House|poor houses]], accounts for characters who are in their mid-20s or older before achieving 1st level.
+'''Assassins.'''  Associated with [[Barracks|barracks]], the [[Beggar's Guild|beggar's guild]], [[Shipboard (range)|shipboard]] and [[Whorehouse|whorehouses]].  An [[Assassin (class)|assassin's]] training is often scattered and inconsistent, with time spent as a layabout or indulging in minor criminal pursuits.  Time in [[Gaol|gaols]], if not [[Prison|prison]], or in [[Poor House|poor houses]], accounts for characters who are in their mid-20s or older before achieving 1st level.
 '''Bards.'''  These characters, too, are often distracted as youths since they have a preoccupation with investigating their arts on their own.  Eventually they enter a bardic college or a [[Guildhouse|guildhouse]] as an [[Artisan (profession)|artisan]], or join with a [[Performing Troupe|performing troupe]].  Actors, circus performers or puppeteers often receive only the sort of education that can be gotten in front of a live audience.

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 == Training by Class ==
-Though raised by families, classes are also associated with specific cultures and places within society.  The sort of upbringing an individual recieves has no influence on their class abilities, but perhaps it helps to understand the backgrounds from which a given class often comes.
+Though raised by families, classes are also associated with specific cultures and places within society.  The sort of upbringing an individual receives has no influence on their class abilities, but perhaps it helps to understand the backgrounds from which a given class often comes.
 '''Assassins.'''  Associated with [[Barracks|barracks]], the [[Beggar's Guild|beggar's guild]], [[Shipboard (range)|shipboard]] and [[Whorehouse|whorehouses]].  An [[Assassin (class)|assassin's]] training is often scattered and inconsistent, with time spent as a layabout or indulging in minor criminal participants.  Time in [[Gaol|gaols]], if not [[Prison|prison]], or in [[Poor House|poor houses]], accounts for characters who are in their mid-20s or older before achieving 1st level.
-'''Bards.'''  These characters, too, are often distracted as youths since they have a preoccupation with investigating their arts on their own.  Eventually they enter a bardic college or a [[Guildhouse|guildhouse]] as an [[Artisan (profession)|artisan]], or join with a [[Performing Troupe|performing troupe]].  Actors, circus performers or puppeteers often recieve only the sort of education that can be gotten in front of a live audience.
+'''Bards.'''  These characters, too, are often distracted as youths since they have a preoccupation with investigating their arts on their own.  Eventually they enter a bardic college or a [[Guildhouse|guildhouse]] as an [[Artisan (profession)|artisan]], or join with a [[Performing Troupe|performing troupe]].  Actors, circus performers or puppeteers often receive only the sort of education that can be gotten in front of a live audience.
 '''Cleric.'''  A very formal education is the most common, through a [[Seminary|seminary]] with social connections to the [[Tabernacle|tabernacle]] or [[Temple|temple]] of the character's home.  Sometimes a cleric is assoicated with a monastery.  Each receives a diploma, and from thence, non-player characters join the religious hierarchy, participating as [[Curate|curates]], assistants, associate [[Deacon|deacons]] or in some other formal capacity for as long as 7 or 8 years.  They might receive a dispensation from their religion to seek their own path (as player clerics do); otherwise, they hope to become priests, though there's not room for all in this.

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 In most cultures, young persons are selected for their aptitude and [[Ability Stats|ability stats]] to train in culturally recognised character classes and [[Sage Study|sage studies]].  Often before training starts, these characters have already spent a significant portion of their lives engaged in their [[Progenitor|family's profession]].
-This manifests variously as youths — the age varying due to race — taking leave of their families at the age of 9 to 11, at considerable expense, to enter an [[Academy|academy]], [[College (bardic)|college]], [[Monastery|monastery]] or [[Apprenticeship|apprenticeship]], where they'll be trained to know all they need to become [[Fighter (class)|fighters]], [[Bard (class)|bards]], [[Monk (class)|monks]], [[Cleric (class)|clerics]], [[Mage (class)|mages]] and so on.  [[Thief (class)|Thieves]] often learn their skills in a less structured manner.  With some races and classes, such as dwarven clerics, training doesn't begin until well into middle-age — for no reason except this is how things in those cultures are done.
+This manifests variously as youths — the age varying due to race — taking leave of their families at the age of 9 to 11, at considerable expense, to enter an [[Thaumaturgical School|thaumaturgical school]], [[College (bardic)|college]], [[Monastery|monastery]] or [[Apprenticeship|apprenticeship]], where they'll be trained to know all they need to become [[Fighter (class)|fighters]], [[Bard (class)|bards]], [[Monk (class)|monks]], [[Cleric (class)|clerics]], [[Mage (class)|mages]] and so on.  [[Thief (class)|Thieves]] often learn their skills in a less structured manner.  With some races and classes, such as dwarven clerics, training doesn't begin until well into middle-age — for no reason except this is how things in those cultures are done.
 When the training is done, the character has reached 1st level.  This is the point at which player characters enter the game.

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 [[Knowledge Points]]<br>
 [[Player Characters]]<br>
-[[Sage Ability]]

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 When adults undergo training, their ability statistics are already well-established. Class-specific training brings the following improvements:
-:* Bards have their charisma improved by +2.
+:* Bards have their [[Charisma (ability stat)|charisma]] improved by +2.
-:* Clerics and druids see a +2 increase in their wisdom.
+:* Clerics and druids see a +2 increase in their [[Wisdom (ability stat)|wisdom]].
-:* Fighters, paladins, and rangers experience a +2 boost to their strength and a +1 enhancement to their constitution.
+:* Fighters, paladins, and rangers experience a +2 boost to their [[Strength (ability stat)|strength]] and a +1 enhancement to their [[Constitution (ability stat)|constitution]].
-:* Illusionists and mages benefit from a +2 enhancement in their intelligence and a +1 increase in dexterity.
+:* Illusionists and mages benefit from a +2 enhancement in their [[Intelligence (ability stat)|intelligence]] and a +1 increase in [[Dexterity (ability stat)|dexterity]].
 :* Thieves enjoy a +2 rise in dexterity and a +1 augmentation in intelligence.
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 :* Assassins enjoy the same benefits of thieves, also receiving a +1 increase in strength.
-No additional stat bonuses are given to adults who start their training to become 1st level monks.
+If, during the course of their training, a student fails to acquire the ability stats needed to meet the minimum requirements for their class by the age of 15, they are deemed unsuccessful and can only advance to higher levels through day-to-day instruction received in adulthood.
+See also,<br>
 [[Character Creation]]<br>
 [[Knowledge Points]]<br>
 [[Player Characters]]<br>
 [[Sage Ability]]

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 == Ability Stats ==
-With '''adults''' who receive training, their ability stats are nearly established.  Class training will improve an adult cleric or druid's [[Wisdom (ability stat)|wisdom]] by +2.  Fighters, paladins and rangers will have their [[Strength (ability stat)|strength]] improved by +2 and their [[Constitution (ability stat)|constitution]] by +1.  Mages and Illusionists will have their [[Intelligence (ability stat)|intelligence]] improved by +2 and their [[Dexterity (ability stat)|dexterity]] by +1.  Thieves will improve their dexterity by +2 and their intelligence by +1; this applies to assassins as well, who will additionally improve their strength by +1.  Bards improve their [[Charisma (ability stat)|charisma]] by +2.
+When adults undergo training, their ability statistics are already well-established. Class-specific training brings the following improvements:
 No additional stat bonuses are given to adults who start their training to become 1st level monks.

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 '''Fighter.'''  These are most commonly trained on the martial grounds related to a barracks, beginning with the [[Harden Commoner (sage ability)|combat training]] given to commoners and moving student up to becoming [[Soldier-at-Arms (profession)|soldiers-at-arms]].  A fighter's training may take place in the [[Baggage Camp|baggage camp]] of a moving army, at the manor estate of a noble or aboard ship.  Most 1st level characters have had personal familiarity with battle as a non-level.
-'''Illusionist & mage.'''  Both of these classes require long periods of training, upwards of 20 years just to reach 1st level.  An entire [[Language|language]], and not an easy one, must also be learned.  '''[[Illusionist (class)|Illusionists]] receive more training in [[Library|libraries]], while a mage's training tends more towards [[Laboratory|laboratory]] settings.  Most become [[Magical Apprentice|apprentices]] once the language is learned and their basic training achieved.  Either often remain apprentices well into adulthood, until they crack the difficulty of casting spells sufficiently well to become levelled.
+'''Illusionist & mage.'''  Both of these classes require long periods of training, upwards of 20 years just to reach 1st level.  An entire [[Language|language]], and not an easy one, must also be learned.  They receive more training in [[Library|libraries]], while a mage's training tends more towards [[Laboratory|laboratory]] settings.  Most become [[Magical Apprentice|apprentices]] once the language is learned and their basic training achieved.  Either often remain apprentices well into adulthood, until they crack the difficulty of casting spells sufficiently well to become levelled.
 '''Monk.'''  These obtain their educations in obscure monasteries, many of which may number less than ten residents.  Long years are spent in meditation, as the character separates themselves from want and necessities of the flesh.

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 '''Paladin.'''  [[Paladin (class)|Paladins]] typically begin as fighters, demonstrating a religious zeal that leads to a 2 to 3 year period spent at a monastery, receiving an initial training that a cleric receives.  This gives the paladin knowledge and abilities not available to fighters, but rarely does a paladin achieve a sufficient level to allow a cleric's spell use.
-'''[[Ranger (class)|Rangers]]'''
+'''Ranger.'''  [[Ranger (class)|Rangers]], like paladins, also begin as fighters; their wanderlust affects them however, taking them abroad from urban centers to learn of the world, either through ship voyages or upon manor estates like a druid.
-With '''[[Thief (class)|thieves]]''', the training is often scattered and inconsistent, with much time spent as layabouts or minor criminal participants.  Time in [[Gaol|gaols]], if not [[Prison|prison]], or in [[Poor House|poor houses]], will account for the time it takes to become one of these classes.
+'''Thief.'''  These receive the least structured of training.  Most thieves begin to steal or indulge in criminal behaviour before the age of 7, which is steadily given direction and instruction by other persons of a selfish, anti-social bent.  Unlike most classes, a thief's progenitor skill is learned after their primarily thieving skills — but for a 1st level player character, the distinction is academic.  Like assassins, these characters also spend time in gaols, prisons and whorehouses ... and often [[Poor House|poor houses]] besides.
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