Select the qualities of your mentor, ensuring that he or she has at least one each in the A, B, C, D, and E categories.Create a mentor for your character.
Select the qualities of your mentor, ensuring that he or she has at least one each in the A, B, C, D, and E categories.
A Myth: Your mentor is lauded as a once-in-a-millennium genius. Long after she passes from this world, scholars will study her work, and bards will sing songs of her deeds.
Well Respected: Your mentor is considered one of the world’s foremost experts in her field.
Known to Some: Your mentor is recognizable in certain circles, but she is far from a household name.
An Oddity: Most do not know your mentor; those who do consider her work to be far outside the mainstream of her field.
Wicked: Your mentor is rarely spoken of by anyone in her field, but when she is, it is not in kind terms. She is considered incompetent, unsound, dangerous, or some combination of the three.
Favored: You are never far from your mentor’s mind. He believes you to be a chosen one or some kind of generation-defining genius.
Star Pupil: Your mentor remembers you as exceptionally bright and talented. They avidly track your progress and encourage your success.
Familiar: You stood out from the other students your mentor taught, perhaps not always for the right reasons. Were he to see you again, it would take only a short time for him to recall your time together.
Disappointment: For one reason or another, your mentor feels you wasted your potential. They think of you often, not fondly.
None: Your mentor does not remember you.
Master of Unknown: Your mentor has access to things beyond mortal understanding. She possesses items of legend and easily walks in places of myth.
Wealth Beyond Measure: Your mentor’s wealth rivals that of some kingdoms. All that can be bought with gold is within her reach.
Accomplished: Your mentor owns a modest property with access to a few comforts and fine materials related to her trade.
Down on Her Luck: Your mentor struggles with debt and day-to-day expenses. These bring her considerable trouble that she cannot deal with on her own.
Ascetic: Your mentor places no value on material wealth. She owns nothing and gives away what little she finds.
Holder of Hidden Truths: Your mentor has walked between worlds and understands things that others could spend thousands of lifetimes failing to comprehend. Any who witness him perform even simple tasks can innately sense they are in the presence of a living myth. At some tasks even gods cannot rival his mastery.
Greatest Alive: Perhaps there once was or will one day be a talent to rival your master, but among mortal beings, he has no equal. Even with your formal instruction behind you, there is much you could learn from him.
Competent: Your mentor has undeniable ability. He can teach many, though there are few lessons he now has to teach you.
Those Who Cannot Do: Due to age, injury, or illness, your mentor has lost some or much of his former prowess. The lessons you have yet to learn are beyond his ability to teach.
Charlatan: You mentor is not the person you or the world once thought him to be. Though you may have learned much from him, it has nothing to do with his own ability. Perhaps he is practiced in theory, or maybe he just happened to nudge you in ways that unlocked your natural talents.
With You Always: Your mentor’s guidance is never far from your ear. Perhaps they are an ever-present watchful spirit, or contact is the result of a simple spell. Whatever the circumstance, guidance is there when you need it and absent when this drives you to achieve something on your own.
A Call Away: Your mentor is easy to find and reach. Writing a letter or looking in a particular place will almost always gain you their ear.
Rarely Present: Your mentor is busy or always moving. Without specific knowledge, clever tricks, or considerable effort, it is difficult to establish contact.
Wandering Wind: Your mentor is impossible to find when you need her and the source of many troubles when she is around. It is never convenient or easy to depend on her in any way.
Dead: Your mentor is beyond your reach.