The former mentor

Except perhaps beastmasters raised among animals, every character learned from a mentor, and casters and alchemists especially may want to consult theirs later. A mentor fleshes out the character's past, gives the Game Judge a personal link with the player, and can spark adventures: the pupil seeks advice or help learning a new spell or skill, or the mentor asks a favor.

The mentor is usually of the pupil's race. Sex, age group, alignment and wealth are chosen or rolled on d6; prime requisites are their minimums plus 1-6 within racial limits; the mentor stands 5 plus 1-4 levels above his or her most advanced pupil; and renown is percentile dice plus 20%. Opposed alignments need not make them enemies, and each may try to win the other over.

Temperament, rolled on percentile dice or chosen, decides how helpful the mentor is. A benevolent mentor is proud, always makes time, and teaches 60% of the time; a fairly helpful one advises readily but teaches less; a preoccupied one is always busy; an irritable one is nearly always in a bad mood; an unapproachable one might answer one question to get rid of the pupil and never teaches; an unpredictable one rerolls at each visit. An unfriendly mentor parted on bad terms through jealousy, alignment or a quarrel, and a deceased one may leave a death to avenge. The Judge also decides how many other pupils there were and how they regard the character.