Talk:Bartleby Character Sheet
From Ars Magica
I'm not sold on the idea of a scribe who is the son of one of England's leading academics. Let's just have a regular scribe... he's only a grog, afterall. --Admin 10:26, 15 February 2006 (PST)
I didn't intend him to be "son of one of England's leading academics." I just thought "Magister Gerund" would be a punny name. "Gerund" sounds like a man's name, but it's "a verbal noun in Latin that expresses generalized or uncompleted action" (m-w.com). Is having a professor for a father really such a huge status symbol that he can't be from an academic background? There needs to be some reason that he's educated, and that would be preferable, IMO, to having him be a clergyman.