Fertility Registrar

Fertility Registrar

Love can be simple. Lineage rarely is.

You once served as a Fertility Registrar, recording parentage declarations, donor agreements, lineage claims, inheritance arrangements, temple certifications and other documents created when biology, family and law intersect. In Erosia, where magic, mixed lineages, divine influence and deliberate family-making can complicate assumptions that other cultures take for granted, accurate records matter.

Work with your GM to determine who maintained the registry you served. Perhaps it belonged to a temple, civic archive, noble court, healer’s guild or independent record house. You may have spent your career resolving harmless clerical tangles, witnessing carefully negotiated agreements or discovering that one missing signature could threaten an inheritance, marriage pact or entire family line.

Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Investigation

Tool Proficiencies: Calligrapher’s supplies

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A set of calligrapher’s supplies, a leather document case, blank registry forms, sealing wax, a small family-record ledger, a bundle of colored lineage cords or tabs, a keepsake from a family whose records you helped preserve, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Feature: Paper Lineage

You understand the ordinary records used to establish family relationships, donor arrangements, guardianship, inheritance and fertility services. When shown such documents, you can usually identify their purpose, the institutions likely to have issued them and obvious inconsistencies such as missing seals, contradictory dates or improperly witnessed declarations.

You also know how legitimate registries are organized. In a settled community, you can usually determine where public birth, lineage, marriage, inheritance or donor records are kept and what ordinary procedure is required to request them.

This familiarity does not reveal sealed records or private medical information without permission, and it does not automatically expose a sophisticated forgery. It does, however, make you unusually difficult to confuse with bureaucratic language.

Suggested Characteristics

Fertility Registrars spend years discovering that families are simultaneously intimate, emotional and astonishingly administrative. Some become gentle experts in delicate conversations; others become formidable clerks who know precisely which document stands between domestic bliss and a six-month legal dispute.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I remember names, dates and relationships far better than faces.
2	I never assume two people mean the same thing when they both say “parent.”
3	I can explain complicated paperwork without making someone feel foolish.
4	I keep spare sealing wax because somebody always forgets theirs.
5	A missing date bothers me more than an untidy desk.
6	I have learned that the calmest-looking family is often the one with the most complicated records.
7	I instinctively ask who has authority before accepting anyone’s confident explanation.
8	I become suspicious whenever someone says, “The paperwork does not matter.”

d6	Ideal
1	Clarity. Important relationships deserve records clear enough to survive misunderstanding. (Lawful)
2	Family. Kinship is created by commitment as often as by blood. (Good)
3	Privacy. Intimate records should not become public entertainment. (Neutral)
4	Fairness. No one should lose their place in a family because a powerful person dislikes the paperwork. (Good)
5	Truth. Records exist to preserve what happened, not what someone wishes had happened. (Lawful)
6	Choice. People should have room to build families that fit their lives. (Chaotic)

d6	Bond
1	A family I helped through a difficult registration still sends me letters every year.
2	My former archive contains a sealed record someone powerful desperately wants destroyed.
3	A registrar who trained me vanished after discovering a lineage discrepancy.
4	I once corrected an error that changed the course of someone’s inheritance.
5	I carry a letter from someone searching for a parent whose identity remains hidden in an old registry.
6	A noble household owes me a favor because I prevented an intimate family matter from becoming public scandal.

d6	Flaw
1	I sometimes treat emotional problems as though the right form could solve them.
2	I am deeply uncomfortable with undocumented agreements.
3	I have difficulty forgetting information I was professionally obligated to see.
4	I can become pedantic when people use legal family terms imprecisely.
5	I once altered a minor record to protect someone and still fear discovery.
6	The possibility of an inconsistent genealogy can consume my attention.