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Learning Lore

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You learn one new lore and its starting ability during downtime. You can only learn lore under the following conditions:

That person could be a fellow hero, a friendly NPC—or even a foe whose life you’ve spared. 

If you have 5XP, you can spend it to raise your attribute score by 1 to meet the lore requirement. (The cost of increasing your attribute this way is cheaper because learning the lore itself doesn’t require XP.)

Language and Literacy

When someone teaches you lore, they also teach you the language and literacy required to understand that lore. For example, if someone teaches you the Wisdom of Adod lore, you also learn to speak Shinarian and read the Oxhouse script.  

Belongings

Unlike the lore you start with, learning new lore during downtime doesn’t grant you its starting belongings. If you find someone to teach you The Sword, for example, you’ll still need to acquire your own blade. 

Lore from Texts

You can learn the following types of lore from copies of their texts, rather than from a living teacher: 

However, you first need to know the script the text is written in—Forms, Glyphs, or Oxhouse—in order to learn the lore this way. Learning lore from texts doesn’t grant you knowledge of a language. 

If you spend downtime in a settlement with a library, you can learn other lore that’s spread around multiple texts in the library collection. The library must have at least 2 references to the lore in a script you can read. See the Scholarship endeavor, detailed in the following section, for more information on libraries and references. 

Example: Learning LoreVictory! Chom the Champion, Wandu the Wanderer, and Matreyis the Mastermind have routed the monsters infesting the island and rescued a handful of grateful townsfolk. Among them are a priest and a rebel. Chom is interested in learning more about the Lord Adod, and the priest is delighted to teach him. Chom learns the Lord Adod lore, along with the Shinarian language associated with it. Wandu wants to learn more about the rebellion. With some coaxing, she convinces the rebel to teach her Insurgency. In the process, she also learns the Shinarian language, along with the secret Oxhouse writing system that rebels use to communicate.
...Matreyis found a mysterious text, the Wisdom of Adod. It’s written in a script she can’t read, Oxhouse—which Wandu just learned from her rebel ally. The rebel hates Mazrians (Matreyis’ origin) so won’t teach Matreyis about Insurgency. But Wandu is happy to serve as Matreyis’ teacher and transmit what she learned from the rebel. So Matreyis, too, learns Insurgency, along with the Shinarian language and the Oxhouse script.