Chapter 1 - Non-weapon Proficiencies
Field Of Study Non-weapon Proficiency
This covers everything else in a sage's field of expertise not already covered under existing proficiencies. The more detailed a category, the more information the sage has and can turn up in research (and the more expensive the research should be!). A hedge wizard with a proficiency in elven art who looks at a pair of old vases can tell one is an elven vase made about 1,500 years ago in Myth Drannor, and the other was probably made about 500 years ago in Everska. A hedge wizard with the field of study of elven art during the rule of King Alfroi can tell that the first vase was made by the master craftsman Iriam Talltree during his revisionist period, but he can't tell anything about the second vase at all other than it appears of elven make.
Typical major fields of study are: art, folklore, cryptography, languages (doubles the number of languages spoken by the hedge wizard not all that important with tongues spells available), folklore, genealogy, geography, geology, mathematics, mathemagics, philosophy, and sociology. A failed skill roll means either no knowledge (just missed the number needed) or misinformation (if roll was off by more than four).
