A Scholar of the Correspondence

You consider yourself the foremost authority on the Correspondence in the Neath.

[Begin your study of the Correspondence with an Expedition to the Tomb of Seven, in the Forgotten Quarter.]

• Actions that raise this quality

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Unlocked with

• The scholar of The Correspondence

LevelsEdit

• 1-2: Guest Lecturer
• 3-5: Smouldering Academic
• 6-8: Ecstatic Authority
• 9-11: Cryptophilologist Emeritus
• 12-14: Speaker
• 15-17: Listener
• 18-20: Igneate Eye
• 21: Courier's Footprint

Get started as a ScholarEdit

(There are other, Fate-locked ways of increasing SotC that are not mentioned here.)

• Level 0: Forgotten Quarter: An Expedition to the The Tomb of Seven via The scholar of The Correspondence (+1 CP, up to L1)
• Level 1–2: Carnival: What's that? (+1 CP, up to L3)
• Level 1–6: (Airs) Forgotten Quarter: Look for more evidence of the Correspondence in the ruins (+1 CP, up to L7)
• Level 1–6: University: Learned discourse (+0 CP, rare: +1 CP, up to L7)
• Level 1–9: Empress' Court: Somewhat challenging music (+1 CP, up to L10)
• Level 1–9: University: A merry wager (50% luck-based +1 CP, up to L10)
• Level 1–9: (Card) Something perilous from Opening a Bundle of Oddities, via Grab whatever you can carry or The gift of the unexpected (+1 CP, up to L10)
• Level 3-9: (Card) Look Closer from The Skin of the Bazaar (Rare, drawn only in the Bazaar Side-streets) (+1 CP, up to L10)
• Level 1-14: (Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow, available during Christmas) Examine it through your Semiotic Monocle (SotC Challenge, +1 CP, up to L15)
• Level 5–20: University: Perhaps you can remember something useful (+1 CP, rare: +3 CP, up to L21)

Cards if you finished the University storyline:

• A little package of his work (+1 CP, up to L7)
• Return the squeezebox for some glim (+3 CP, up to L10)

Uses for high Scholar levelsEdit

• Scholar check in Invite guests from the observatory to a symposium from The Sleepless Tower: Disturbances at a Cottage by the Observatory becomes 100% at level 15
• Higher levels improve success rate in Examine it through your Semiotic Monocle from A Pail of So-Called Snow (seasonal) up to 100% for level 10
• Higher levels also improve success rate in Write a monograph on it...in it from A Pail of So-Called Snow (seasonal) up to 100% for a probably impossible level 25
• Having SotC level 21 is one option for gaining London's Nerves, part of the path to becoming a Paramount Presence.
• In order to Become a Correspondent, you need a SotC level of at least 10.
• In Seeking Mr. Eaten's Name, one of the best options to increase early levels is to sacrifice this since halving watchful takes much longer to regain.