Time to Embark
The world is vast, expansive, and uncharted. Sure, adventurers might be easy to hire: throw a map and some coin at them with a promise of fame and fortune, and that is usually enough to get the job done. However, there are those who devote their whole lives to being explorers, discoverers of the hidden truths of the place in which they live, and archivists of it all. These are expeditionaries, commanders of immense chronicles of languages, cultures, lands, and customs. If you want a job done well, you always make sure an expeditionary goes along.
Caught Between the Quill and the Quarrell
Expeditionaries are unique individuals, sometimes referred to as killer librarians in jest by others, but those who really know the training and mastery of the expeditionaries do not make such jokes. Expeditionaries are taught to train their bodies and their minds - simultaneously masters of combat and chronicling. When they are not memorizing star charts or the greeting ritual of a new culture, they spar and battle in numerous different fighting styles; from martial arts to heavy weapons.
Creating an Expeditionary
Expeditionaries are often individuals who are naturally curious - sometimes overly curious, leading them into mischief and trouble completely coincidentally - and because of this they are often seen as bookish pests bugging everyone. Or they are kicked out of their military schools for being too soft, too kind to others. Here is where your story begins - why did YOU become an expeditionary? Is there a thirst for treasure and glory in your veins, or a wanderlust that has always kept your feet moving? Do you perhaps wish to become a representative between two kingdoms, or begin to help form trade relations between the crown and local tribes? Or maybe, just maybe...you want to do all of it. While you might possess strength and stamina, your true power lies in your words and your mind.
- from the publisher's blurb