ACADEMICS
Description: Despite the failings of the American system, mages cannot afford to be ignorant. Whether they’re self-taught, unusually accomplished, or schooled in some system beyond the typical public education found in the U.S., most Awakened folks display an unusual degree of scholastic achievement. This Knowledge reflects your overall academic understanding – language skills, math, history, and so forth. As with Crafts, you should choose a specialty to reflect your greatest area of expertise. Even outside that specialty, however, your Academics rating reflects your general competence for scholastic subjects. And though every mage ought to have at least one dot in this Trait, many groups (especially Hermetics, Etherites, Solificati, and the various branches of the Technocracy) advocate much higher levels of education and knowledge.
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