Scholar

Scholar is one of the many role-playing subclasses in Elder Tale.

Overview
An academic profession knowledgeable in various fields. In terms of standing, it’s an intermediary position obtained by graduating from lower academic positions such as Apprentice, Scribe or Civil Servant. There are superior positions that can be obtained in the same ways: by graduating from Scholar to higher and more specialized positions in a certain academic field.

As its title infers, a scholar is basically a researcher and historian. A scholar's main duty is to collect data and perform studies on various topics. The Academic Guild is a group of scholars from the People of the Earth with the main goal of studying Adventurers and how to advance their own societies. Li Gan is a magical researcher whose specialty is the study of Global-Class Magic or World Fractions.

Theldesia being a medieval feudal society, the Scholars of Elder Tale are wildly different from those of the modern world. While on Earth, scholars were researchers and knowledge was commonly shared for everyone, in the Middle Ages knowledge was a vested interest of the privileged classes, kept secret and monopolized as a source of power. Moreover, it is extremely difficult for Landers to learn how to read and write and even more to acquire the necessary environment to become a full-fledged Scholar, like a collection of books of sufficient quality and quantity, the possibility to visit the library, a private tutor or access to a private school.

For these reasons, Scholar is among the rarest subclasses for People of the Earth, their population even smaller than the Nobles. Due to their rarity, they are few and far in normal cities and live in places where books can be found such as the magic city of Tsukuba or the Golden Library of Romatrice. They are considered as eccentric by the other Earthlings because some of them spend their days and nights immersed in their research and ignoring the need for food and sleep.

In Theldesia, academics disciplines are roughly divided into nine types: rhetoric, geology, history, logic, medecine, magic, mathematics, astronomy and geometry. In Tsukuba these nine categories are called “The four mundanes on the left, the doctor in the middle and the holy four on the right”

For Adventurers, Scholar is one of the oldest subclasses, there since the second expansion pack “Duelist’s Honor”. As a role-playing subclass, it gives a few skills like deciphering (books, documents, texts, scrolls..). There are books in the game that give information on the world and the background of Elder Tale or other that casually give strategic hints like boss weaknesses or help on how to solve a quest.

However its primary feature is the sheer amount of dedicated quests for them. Some of them allow them to enter archives zones to acquire many books (like the aforementioned lore books or strategy guides) and sometimes a Scholar is needed to access them. For example, the Library of Romatrice cannot be explored without a Scholar in your team.

For these two reasons people choose this subclass to collect all of this knowledge. Like the Knight, it is a popular and demanded subclass for the lore-seeking part of the Elder Tale community.

A detailed article was written about it in the Theldesia Gazette Vol.29.

Scholar Skills

 * A skill that allows the Scholar to decipher texts, the complexity depending on the subclass level.

Known Scholars

 * Eins
 * Calm.H.Dale
 * Li Gan
 * The Academic Guild

Related Subclasses

 * Doctor
 * Novelist
 * Arcanist
 * Astrologer