You have spent your youth preparing to be a student of Lorehold College, reading every book on the college's recommended reading list for prospective students. Your academic passions are in the broad field of history. You might dream of using magic to contact great historical figures or your own ancestors or of recreating the mighty magic of a distant age.

Source: Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Skill Proficiencies: History, Religion
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A bottle of black inkValue: 10gp Weight: 0, an ink penValue: 2cp Weight: 0, a hammerValue: 1gp Weight: 3lbs, a hooded lanternValue: 5gp Weight: 2lb, a tinderboxValue: 5cp Weight: 1lb, a tome of history, a school uniform, and a pouchValue: 5sp Weight: 1lb containing 15 gp.

Feature

Lorehold Initiate

You gain the Strixhaven Initiate feat and must choose Lorehold within it.

In addition, if you have the Spellcasting or Pact Magic feature, the spells on the Lorehold Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.)

Consider customizing how your spells look when you can cast them. Your Lorehold spells might create displays of golden light. You might use a tome or a scroll as a spellcasting focus, and your spell effects might reflect the appearance of the reference books you study.

Building a Lorehold Character

Any class or subclass that deals with knowledge of the past can be a good fit for Lorehold. Bards thrive in Lorehold, and Wizards (particularly those of the School of Divination) are numerous among its students. Clerics (often with the Knowledge or Light domains) are also quite common.

For a more unusual take on a Lorehold student, you could consider playing a Barbarian with a primal connection to the past (perhaps adopting the Path of the Ancestral Guardian) or a Paladin whose Oath of the Ancients gives a concrete link to history.

Suggested Characteristics. Methodical historians and daring adventurers alike can be found among the ranks of Lorehold college. The Lorehold Personality Traits table suggests a variety of traits you might adopt for your character.

Lorehold Personality Traits

Lorehold Trinkets. When you make your character, you may roll once on the Lorehold Trinkets table, instead of on the Trinkets table in the Player's Handbook, for your starting trinket.

Lorehold Trinkets