##### The Archivist
| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Features | Cantrips Known | Spells Known | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th |
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| 1st | +2 | Spellcasting, Researcher | 3 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2nd | +2 | Esoteric Applications | 3 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3rd | +2 | Scholarly Specialization | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4th | +2 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5th | +3 | Source of Knowledge | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6th | +3 | Advanced Research | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7th | +3 | — | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8th | +3 | Ability Score Improvement | 4 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9th | +4 | Scholarly Specialization Feature | 4 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 10th | +4 | Advanced Applications | 5 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 11th | +4 | — | 5 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 12th | +4 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 13th | +5 | — | 5 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 14th | +5 | Scholarly Specialization Feature | 5 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 15th | +5 | — | 5 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 16th | +5 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 17th | +6 | — | 5 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 18th | +6 | Scholarly Specialization Feature | 5 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 19th | +6 | Ability Score Improvement | 5 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 20th | +6 | Esoteric Master | 5 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Perhaps you found some lost scripture during your youth that sent you down a path of research or maybe, you stumbled across an old tome and spent years learning to decipher its strange writings. Whatever your reason, consider how your background influences your current studies, as well as how it provides motivation for your future pursuits.
#### Quick Build
You can make an Archivist quickly by following these suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Dexterity. Second, choose the sage background.
#### Hit Points
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- **Hit Dice:** 1d6 per archivist level
- **Hit Points at 1st Level:** 6 + your Constitution modifier
- **Hit Points at Higher Levels:** 1d6 (or 4) + your Constitution modifier per archivist level after 1st
#### Proficiencies
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- **Armor:** Light armor
- **Weapons:** Simple weapons, hand crossbows, rapiers, scimitars, shortswords, whips
- **Tools:** Calligrapher's supplies
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- **Saving Throws:** Constitution, Intelligence
- **Skills:** Choose two from Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Percerption, and Religion.
#### Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
- *(a)* a rapier or *(b)* a shortsword
- *(a)* a light crossbow or *(b)* a whip
- *(a)* a component pouch or *(b)* calligrapher's supplies
- *(a)* a scholar's pack or *(b)* an explorer's pack
- Leather armor
### Spellcasting
As a student of magic and esoteric knowledge, you have spent your time training and learning spells from long forgotten places. Although your study of magic is similar to that of a traditional wizard, you forgo some of their spellcasting prowess to gather long forgotten knowledge. See chapter 10 of the *Player's Handbook* for the general rules of spellcasting.
**Spell save DC =** 8 + your proficiency bonus + Intelligence modifier.
**Spell attack modifier =** your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier
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##### Cantrips (0 Level)
- Booming Blade
- Dancing Lights
- Friends
- Green-Flame Blade
- Guidance
- Light
- Mage Hand
- Magic Stone
- Mending
- Message
- Mind Sliver
- Minor Illusion
- Prestidigitation
- Produce Flame
- Ray of Frost
- Sacred Flame
- Sword Burst
- Thaumaturgy
- Thunderclap
- True Strike
- Vicious Mockery
- Word of Radiance
##### 1st Level
- Absorb Elements
- Alarm
- Bane
- Bless
- Burning Hands
- Charm Person
- Command
- Comprehend Languages
- Cure Wounds
- Detect Evil and Good
- Detect Magic
- Detect Poison and Disease
- Dissonant Whispers
- Expeditious Retreat
- Frost Fingers
- Guiding Bolt
- Hex
- Healing Word
- Identify
- Illusory Script
- Jump
- Longstrider
- Magic Missile
- Protection from Evil and Good
- Sanctuary
- Shield
- Shield of Faith
- Sleep
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- Speak with Animals
- Tasha’s Hideous Laughter
- Thunderwave
- Unseen Servant
- Witch Bolt
##### 2nd Level
- Aid
- Animal Messenger
- Arcane Lock
- Augury
- Barkskin
- Blindness/Deafness
- Crown of Madness
- Darkvision
- Detect Thoughts
- Enhance Ability
- Find Traps
- Flaming Sphere
- Gentle Repose
- Hold Person
- Invisibility
- Lesser Restoration
- Levitate
- Locate Animals or Plants
- Locate Object
- Magic Mouth
- Magic Weapon
- Melf’s Acid Arrow
- Misty Step
- Nystul’s Magic Aura
- Phantasmal Force
- Shadow Blade
- See invisibility
- Silence
- Spider Climb
- Suggestion
- Tasha's Mind Whip
- Warding Bond
- Zone of Truth
##### 3rd Level
- Aura of Vitality
- Beacon of Hope
- Bestow Curse
- Blink
- Call Lightning
- Clarivoyance
- Counterspell
- Daylight
- Dispel Magic
- Enlarge/Reduce
- Fast Friends
- Fly
- Glyph of Warding
- Haste
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- Hypnotic Pattern
- Magic Circle
- Major Image
- Mass Healing Word
- Moonbeam
- Protection from Energy
- Remove Curse
- Revivify
- Sending
- Slow
- Speak with Dead
- Speak with Plants
- Spirit Guardians
- Tongues
- Water Breathing
- Water Walk
##### 4th Level
- Arcane Eye
- Banishment
- Blight
- Charm Monster
- Confusion
- Control Water
- Dimension Door
- Divination
- Dominate Beast
- Guardian of Faith
- Hallucinatory Terrain
- Leomund’s Secret Chest
- Locate Creature
- Mordenkainen’s Private Sanctum
- Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere
- Polymorph
- Stone Shape
##### 5th Level
- Commune
- Commune with Nature
- Contact Other Plane
- Dispel Evil and Good
- Dominate Person
- Dream
- Greater Restoration
- Hold Monster
- Legend Lore
- Mass Cure Wounds
- Mislead
- Modify Memory
- Planar Binding
- Raise Dead
- Rary’s Telepathic Bond
- Scrying
- Seeming
- Skill Empowerment
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##### 6th Level
- Arcane Gate
- Chain Lightning
- Contingency
- Create Undead
- Find the Path
- Forbiddance
- Guards and Wards
- Harm
- Heal
- Planar Ally
- Programmed Illusion
- Sunbeam
- True Seeing
- Word of Recall
##### 7th Level
- Create Magen
- Divine Word
- Dream of the Blue Veil
- Etherealness
- Fire Storm
- Mirage Arcane
- Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion
- Plane Shift
- Resurrection
- Reverse Gravity
- Sequester
- Symbol
- Teleport
##### 8th Level
- Antimagic Field
- Control Weather
- Demiplane
- Dominate Monster
- Holy Aura
- Maddening Darkness
- Maze
- Mind Blank
- Power Word Stun
- Telepathy
##### 9th Level
- Astral Projection
- Foresight
- Gate
- Imprisonment
- Power Word Heal
- Power Word Kill
- Time Stop
- True Polymorph
- True Resurrection
- Weird
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