Sage

Of the 6 Career Skills, choose 3 to get a free rank. Of the 4 Specialization Skills, choose 2 to get a free rank.

Consular Career Skills: Cool, Discipline, Knowledge (Education), Knowledge (Lore), Leadership and Negotiation.

Sage Specialization Skills: Astrogation, Charm, Cool and Knowledge (Lore)

The Consular begins play with a Force rating of 1

Many Consulars know the universal truth: knowledge is power, and understanding a situation can give one a decisive advantage. This holds just as true when resolving disputes or negotiations as it does on the battlefield. A Sage focuses on studying the world around him, recognizing that information offers tremendous advantages to himself and his allies. He then uses that power to help change the hearts and minds of others to achieve his goals.

Sages see knowledge and understanding as the basis for long-term peace and harmony. It is their belief that hatred often springs from ignorance. When a sentient comes to appreciate the backgrounds of another being’s beliefs and practices, it becomes far easier not only accept that being but to feel compassion for him.

Some researchers may become lost in their academic pursuits, obsessing over dry facts while blind to the plight of the weak and helpless. Not so a Sage, who maintains connections to those around him via the Living Force. The Force provides a means of grounding Sages’ studies so that they keep what they learn in perspective, always mindful of how they can use their knowledge to help others.

Potential Backgrounds

  • Failed Initiate: Perhaps in youth, the Sage was too thirsty for knowledge, too eager to learn. But for many Sages, years have now passed, and life has taught them patience. Though they were judged to be too weak in the Force to become Jedi Padawans, they instead see their journey in the Force as a long road upon which many hard lessons must be learned.
  • Rogue Scholar: Sages are, by their very nature, scholars. Knowledge is its own reward, and with it comes understanding. But both are dangerous during these dark times, and Sages who dig deeply into the secrets hidden by the Empire often make targets of themselves. As they grow in wisdom, they are drawn into more danger; to protect themselves, they must become ever more silent and subtle. Secrets become hoarded treasures and rationed commodities to be doled out after much deliberation and consideration. Sages are caught between letting lost knowledge die with them or risking their lives every time they pass on what they have learned to another.
  • Relic Seeker: The Sage knows that wisdom can be found in the words of elders from the past—but few such mentors remain. Many Sages instead search for records left behind by lost masters of the Force. But their truths were hidden (or even destroyed) by the Empire for a reason: the truth is the most dangerous weapon in the battle against the Empire. Those who search for it are the most wanted beings in the galaxy, which forces Sages to conduct their searches with a level of awareness that borders on paranoia.
  • Wandering Diplomat: The Sage uses lessons and parables to enlighten those caught up in their own struggles so that two factions might see that they are not so different after all. In the end, all beings are of the Force, and in that, the Sage hopes to find a universality common to everyone involved. The wisdom of shared experiences, collective values, and simple common sense can win the day if only a moment can be taken to stop and reflect on the situation at hand.