====== Career Advancement ======
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===== Conceptually =====
  * Class is your base social/societal rank, e.g., "Academic" or "Courtier"
    * Each Class has 8 Careers associated with it
    * Each Career has 4 Career Levels associated with it
    * Each Career Level has approx 6-8 skills and 1-3 attributes, and 2-4 talents associated with it
      * You can spend XP on Skills/Characteristics associated with your current or previous Levels of your current Career track
      * You can spend XP on Talents associated with your current Career Level only
      * You can no longer spend XP on Skills/Characteristics associated with a Career when you move out of said Career
      * Species Skills/Characteristics/Talents can only be purchased at chargen (unless the book says otherwise)

====== Advancement ======
Page 41 and 47-49 have Advancement rules\\ 

To Level-Up within a career, you must:
  * Purchase at least one Talent from your current career level
  * Check your current career level in the table below. To move up, you must have this many advances in:
    * All Characteristics available to your **current** career level (p48) (note: that's 4 Characteristics for a level 2 career)
    * 8 of your career's available Skills up to the current career level (p48) (note: these can be Skills made available from a lower career level)

===== TL;DR =====
  * Enter a New Career: 100 XP
    * This can only be done after you've paid the cost to leave your current career or career level
  * Leave a Complete Career (level): 100 XP
    * This is done when all advance requirements are reached for any career level and you are ready to level other skills/characteristics/talents
    * You may go up or down in the career, e.g., if you are at level 2, you can go back down to level 1 or up to level 3 as long as the requirements are met
    * Must have at least 1 point in 1 Talent in the current tier
  * Leave an Incomplete Career (Level): 200 XP
    * This is done before reaching the next Level of a Career
    * You do this to start another Career track (e.g., Apothecary -> Priest)
    * This is done when you want to level other skills/charas/talents but don't care about going to a higher level in a career path
  * Purchase Career Characteristic advances (varies, see table)
    * Purchase characteristic advances associated with your current Career's current Level or lower
  * Purchase Career Skills (varies, see table)
    * Purchase Skill advances associated with your current career, from your current career level or lower
  * Purchase Career Talents (varies, see table) pg 132
    * Each rank costs: (100 XP * new rating) in the Talent
    * You may only purchase Talents up to the limit as specified in the talent description
    * You may only purchase Talents associated with your CURRENT Career Level
  * Changing Career Level: 100 XP
    * You can move up or down in Career Levels as long as you meet the requirements
    * Requirements: Have purchased the required number of advances for associated characteristics/skills for the current (or former) Career Level
    * At least 1 point must be purchased in one Talent associated with current Career Level
    * Consult table for required advances per Level


===== Tables =====

^  Career Level  ^  Advances Required to Move Up  ^
|  1  |  5   |
|  2  |  10  |
|  3  |  15  |
|  4  |  20  |


^ ^  XP Cost Per Advance  ^^
^  Advances  ^  Characteristics  ^  Skills  ^
|  0 to 5     |  25   |  10   |
|  6 to 10    |  30   |  15   |
|  11 to 15   |  40   |  20   |
|  16 to 20   |  50   |  30   |
|  21 to 25   |  70   |  40   |
|  26 to 30   |  90   |  60   |
|  31 to 35   |  120  |  80   |
|  36 to 40   |  150  |  110  |
|  41 to 45   |  190  |  140  |
|  46 to 50   |  230  |  180  |


^ Improvement  ^ XP Cost  ^
| +1 Talent Advance  | 100 XP * New Rating  |
| Leave a Complete Career  | 100 XP  |
| Leave an Incomplete Career  | 200 XP  |
| Enter a different Class  | 100 XP  |