Right after Alkmene's rant about cults, she went on: “Well, you have chosen your path. But the path is just the general direction, by choosing your class, you can specialize. Trying to spread your power over the whole path will lead to being spread too thin. There are many classes fitting the Arcane Path and each class can specialize later. Choose wisely.”
It wasn't a truly long list, I guess all hybrid classes are on one of the other paths so after skimming the classes, I got it down to five:
The Guild-Mage was mostly on the list because it was apparently the standard caster in Road to Purgatory but if I'm honest with myself, nope not gonna happen.
Necromancer on the other hand sounds interesting, being able to create my own minions could be incredibly valuable but there was the yuck-factor to consider, I hadn't done terribly well during biology class when it was time to dissect frogs, my only non A in a STEM-Class during high-school to my eternal shame.
Summoner sounds better in that regard but the part with 'magical Aura is responsible for guiding the spirits' means, if I remember right, that the class is strongly Charisma-based and choosing a class based on one of my weakest attributes would be foolish.
Sorcerer on the other hand sounds incredibly high risk, high reward, making my own way without guidance? Well it's the beta and from everything I heard, all character-progress will be wiped for the true release with beta-testers mainly gaining the knowledge advantage, some traits depending on their beta-progression and cosmetics. So if this character becomes a total lemon it's not too bad and I know what to avoid with the true release.
The Warlock sounds a bit intriguing but at the end of the day, it sounds like some cleric with terrible publicity. No, if I wanted to use some higher beings tricks, I'd just roll over and play the priest of some random douche-god. So, No, thank you.
Again, applying the exclusion-principle, I've got my class, Sorcerer, I choose you!
After choosing, Alkmene regarded me with a bit of interest. “Interesting choice, maybe some day a new Traveller will be able to walk down the Path of Morgana, following in your footsteps. Now, you can chose some traits, but remember, there will be a balance if you only choose positive traits some will be assigned to you, so chose wisely.”
It was a long, long list, some sounded interesting, others, not. I ended up choosing Magical Hair, Astral Power III and Astral Regeneration III which all increased my magical power and something called 'The Road is my Teacher', allowing me to learn skills and special abilities faster and easier without a teacher but greatly lowering my ability to learn from teachers. To balance things, I got something called Unbound, Outsider, Child of the Wild and Lone Traveller.
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Now, Alkmene was looking at me with true curiosity in her eyes. “Well, you are convinced to make your own way, are you not? No Creed, no country, no family, no tribe, you will be all alone in the world of Mundus. I guess you will either die somewhere in the wild or you will become one of the brightest shining stars at the end of the road. It will be interesting to see which, I will have to ask the Mistress to keep up with your progress and maybe let me watch. Now, due to your traits, there is nowhere you call home, so you will start somewhere in the wilds, don't worry, I will not place you in some frost-wyrm lair, that would be boring. Why don't you look over your final character sheet before I send you on your way?”
After looking over my character-sheet and chuckling at the slightly pathetic Social Overview, I said “Yes, Alkmene, looks good to me, send me in.”
She answered me with “Very well, Traveller, a lesser daimon will help you with the first few steps on Mundus but don't expect any true help from it, it will only pass some obvious information. I wish you farewell and good luck.
With that, the meadow, Alkmene and everything vanished.
