Arcane Tradition
Scroll Keeper
Scroll Keepers are wizards who specialise in the creation of spell scrolls. While any practitioner of magic can create a spell scroll, none can match the efficiency of a Scroll Keeper. If you’ve ever purchased a spell scroll, it likely came from a Scroll Keeper.
Some Kingdoms may employ Scroll Keepers to manage the creation, distribution, and administration of spell scrolls. These Scroll Keepers will assess and approve every scroll being sold, ensuring that catastrophic and disastrous magic is kept from the wrong hands. Some may even outlaw certain spells from being transcribed.
Others might seek to profit from their arcane knowledge, regardless of the law. Smuggling their scrolls past law enforcement and selling them on the black market.
Clerk
2nd-level Scroll Keeper feature
You gain proficiency with Calligrapher's Supplies, which can be used as a spellcasting focus for your Wizard spells.
Additionally, you are adept at crafting spell scrolls. The gold and time you must spend to make a spell scroll are halved if you use your Calligrapher's Supplies.
Scrivener
2nd-level Scroll Keeper feature
Using your Calligrapher's Supplies you can create rudimentary Spell Scrolls, known as Arcane Scrolls. When you complete a long rest, you can transcribe spells from your spellbook onto pieces of parchment, creating Arcane Scrolls. For each spell you wish to transcribe you must expend the appropriate spell slot and the combined level of all Arcane Scrolls you wish to create cannot exceed your Wizard level.
The spells you wish to transcribe must; have a casting time of 1 action or 1 bonus action, cannot have a component which is consumed or has a cost, must be of 1st to 5th level, and if the spell requires concentration, it must only be capable of targeting a single creature.
A creature holding an Arcane Scroll can read it to cast the transcribed spell, whereupon the scroll is destroyed. Reading the scroll requires the spell’s normal cast time and the spell uses your spellcasting ability modifier. If the spell requires concentration, the creature must target themselves and they must concentrate.
You can touch an Arcane Scroll and dispel it as a bonus action, doing so allows you to regain the spell slot used to create it. Upon completing a long rest, any unused scrolls are destroyed.
Potent Parchment
6th-level Scroll Keeper feature
You scribe your scrolls with a powerful flourish. Whenever an Arcane Scroll is used, it gains a bonus to one roll of the spell. The roll must be to deal damage or provide temporary hit points, and the bonus equals your Intelligence modifier (minimum of +1).
Sage Scribe
10th-level Scroll Keeper feature
You have an unmatched understanding of the magic behind spell scrolls. You ignore all class requirements when casting a spell from a spell scrolls. Additionally, you automatically succeed any ability check made to use a spell scroll.
Furthermore, you can create spell scrolls for spells you don’t know or have prepared, even if they aren’t on the Wizard’s spell list. The spell must be of 3rd level or lower, and the process of creating a scroll for an unknown spell takes twice as long and cost twice as much. See page 169-170 of the Basic Rules for more information on spell scrolls.
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Mana Manuscript
14th-level Scroll Keeper feature
Your Arcane Scrolls gain an increase in their magical capacity. As an action, you can touch an Arcane Scroll and imbue it with additional magical energy. The scroll gains a number of charges based on the transcribed spell’s level, as shown in the table below. When the scroll is used it is no longer destroyed, instead casting the transcribed spell consumes one of these charges. Only once all charges have been expended or you complete a long rest, is the scroll destroyed.
| Spell Level | Number of Charges |
|---|---|
| 1st | 4 |
| 2nd | 4 |
| 3rd | 3 |
| 4th | 3 |
| 5th | 2 |
You can use this feature once, regaining its use upon completing a long rest.
