# Archivist

Though most investigators fill their grimoires  
with hard-won knowledge borne from encounters  
with the supernatural threats, some prefer to  
do bookkeeping instead. Such archivists accrue  
knowledge, not trinkets, by spending untold hours  
digging through disparate tomes of occult knowledge  
and compiling them into encyclopedic texts on the  
supernatural. Through their research, archivists  
become academic masters of the arcane, and  
priceless reservoirs of obscure knowledge.  
TRINKET  
Starting when you choose this specialization at 3rd  
level, you’ve collected a powerful trinket to enhance  
your ritual magic:  
Archaic Scroll. You can perform a ritual  
spell with your Rushed Incantation feature without  
expending one of the feature’s uses.  
THESIS  
Also at 3rd level, you gain access to certain spells  
associated with your thesis. Pick one of the following  
subject areas for your thesis: Corpus, Ignis, Mortis,  
or Regis. You gain a list of associated thesis spells.  
Once you gain access to a thesis spell, it is added  
to your grimoire. If you gain access to a spell that  
doesn’t appear on the investigator ritual list, the spell  
is nonetheless an investigator spell for you. You can  
use your action and expend a use of your Rushed  
Incantation feature to cast one of your thesis spells.

Corpus  
Investigator  
Level Spells  
1st jump, longstrider  
2nd alter self, heat metal  
3rd gaseous form, meld into stone

Ignis  
Investigator  
Level Spells  
1st burning hands, shatter  
2nd gust of wind, scorching ray  
3rd call lightning, wind wall

Mortis  
Investigator  
Level Spells  
1st bane, false life  
2nd blindness/deafness, darkness  
3rd revivify, vampiric touch

Regis  
Investigator  
Level Spells  
1st charm person, hideous laughter  
2nd enthrall, suggestion  
3rd dispel magic, hypnotic pattern

ERUDITE SPELL  
By 6th level, you’ve mastered the difficult theory  
behind arcane propagation. When you cast a spell  
which forces a creature to make a saving throw to  
resist its effects, you can give one target of the spell  
disadvantage on its first saving throw against the  
spell.  
Once you use this ability, you can’t use it again  
until you finish a short or long rest.  
ENCYCLOPEDIC EXPERTISE  
Starting at 10th level, you can identify any arcane  
effect from memory. Whenever you witness a spell  
being cast or investigate a magical effect, you can  
always identify the spell that was cast, the magic  
item responsible, or the monster which produced the  
effect. However, this ability fails to identify spells,  
magic items, and monsters which are utterly unique  
or are otherwise not recorded in arcane texts.  
EIDETIC MEMORY  
At 14th level, you can effortlessly duplicate spells you  
see in the world. You can copy any ritual spell you  
see being cast into your grimoire.  
Moreover, you can precisely copy the exact  
motions of a spell’s casting to duplicate its effect.  
When you see a spell of 5th level or lower being cast,  
you can use your action and spend 1 use of your  
Rushed Incantation feature as an action to cast the  
spell yourself without spending a spell slot. The spell  
must have a casting time of 1 action, must not have  
expensive spell components, and must have taken  
place within the last minute to use this ability.  
Once you duplicate a spell in this way, you can’t  
duplicate it again until you finish a long rest.