MAKING OTHER ACADEMIC STYLE CHARACTERS

• Academics are a dime a dozen nowadays, but in the distant past the opportunity to lead an academic life was much rarer. Think first about the time your character lived in. What was the life of an academic like? Would it be a professorship or medieval court vizier?
  
  
• How broadly versed in study was your character? Why did they pursue learning so far? Was there an event or lifestyle that lead them to pursue books rather than a trade, such as a handicap or family affiliation?
  
  
• What is your character's opinion on learning, and why is it important? What made them worth noticing to the Clan above the throng of other "applicants?"
  
  
• Knowledge is often tempered well with the means to do evil. For example, nuclear physics has greatly enhanced the quality of life around the world, but it also causes cancer, and allowed the creation of nuclear weaponry. How does your character view the evil side of information? Is it something to exploit or avoid? Would you take humanity loss for information, just for knowledge's sake? Would you kill for information? When? How?
  
  
• How does learning allow your character to survive in the violent environment of Kindred politics? What can they do that makes them worth keeping around the chantry, and more importantly, what is their opinion of other academics, friendly or disdainful?