First off, welcome to the game!
Secondly, as someone who plays a scholar, what you research can be as specific or as broad as you want it to be. You can pick up the class and only choose to study, say, cultures from around the continent as some sort of medieval anthropologist. Or you can take it as broad as you want, with picking up lores and literacies wherever you can find them. Or you can forego the lore-gathering entirely and use the list's capabilities to make scrolls and focus on that. Or you can do all of the above! The things with what you can do with the scholar profession list are limited only by your imagination.
Same thing with alchemists. Druids, can do a lot, too, but ultimately, they get their spells and powers from nature.
Either way, hope to see you at game, and hope you'll have fun! Stay warm!