Themes of Liminal

Heroes for Hire

• Explorer: You use your talents to seek out new places in the world, and discover new wonders. It's not just about dangers and riches for you - seeing things no one's seen before (or at least, no one's seen in hundreds of years) is part of the point of adventuring for you.
• Guttersnipe: You come from poverty and the streets. Use of your talents is a means of improving your lot in life, and you're going to fight to crawl up out of the low place you were born to. Gods help whoever stands in your way.
• Mercenary: Your talents are up for sale to the highest bidder. You know that riches are to be had not just from old crumbling ruins, but from the rich and powerful who need brutal, violent men and women to do their bidding. You are one such individual, and take pride in that role. You may be an informal sell-sword, or even a member of a formal mercenary's company.
• Outlaw: No one ever gave you anything, so you take from others in order to get what you've got. You might be a callous bandit or a noble-hearted hero stealing from the rich and giving (some) to the poor, but either way you'll put your talents to use in making what does not belong to you yours.

Heroes of Nature & Lore

• Alchemist: You study the ancient arts of alchemy, seeking to unlock the recipes, techniques and secrets for instilling magic and transforming matter. Your talents in adventuring are rather secondary to you, though they do serve a vital function: adventuring is simultaneously a mobile testing situation for your concoctions as well as a source of funding for them.
• Animal Master: Gifted with an uncanny ability to befriend and train natural beasts, animal masters are often more at home with animals than with people. These creatures aren't just pets, however - they are highly trained and skilled companions.
• Order Adept: Achieving true arcane mastery requires personal dedication, self-discipline, rigorous training and access to occult techniques. Those magi who are part of an arcane order gain access to greater power faster in exchange for bending their talents to the goals of their order.
• Wizard's Apprentice: Apprenticed to a powerful and skilled wizard, you bend your efforts to his service in exchange for his personal teaching. Your mentor is quite well-known and potent, so there is some prestige for you as one of his students, to say nothing of some immersion in wizardly magic, even if you're not a wizard yourself.