For a significant portion of your life you've been searching for answers. Mysteries have always fascinated you, and solving them has made you become far better at searching for clues and reading people. What answers were you searching for? Did you always find satisfying answers to your questions, or was there one answer that you wish you could forget? Have your inquiries made enemies or friends? In any case, it's landed you a job as a detective, perhaps as a paying job for a specific city, perhaps as a wanderer with a mystery-solving hobby.
Feature: Eye for Detail
You are precise, efficient and organized. By habit, you keep careful notes and are able to keep track of many different pieces of information, and you can recall details that others may have forgotten. In addition, you are a well of esoteric information, having an intuitive knack for fields you have studied. Lastly, you have a skill for numeracy that allows you to accurately estimate numbers, whether it be troops in an army or gold pieces in a dragon's hoard.
Suggested Characteristics
Detectives are very knowledgeable about many different subjects, and are good at learning information from anything available. However, this does make them somewhat nosy or manipulative, and sometimes pushes people away from them. To detectives, no mystery is too difficult, no challenge too dangerous to stop them from finding the truth, though what they do with the truth is up to them.
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Personality Trait |
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1
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I'm always craving a mystery to solve or a crime to bust.
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2
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I always write down bits of information I think is useful, even if I have to write on my hands and arms when I'm out of parchment.
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3
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I talk incredibly quickly or incredibly quietly when I am excited, making myself difficult to understand.
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4
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I have a habit of doing something (biting nails, tapping fingers, twirling hair) when I am thinking.
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5
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I dislike it when people are quick to make judgements, and am not convinced about anything unless hard evidence is shown first.
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6
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I make a game of speculating what people around me do for a living, and what secrets they are hiding.
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Ideal |
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1
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Hardworking. I'll solve any case, no matter the difficulty, as long as it's helping someone. (Good)
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2
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Law. It's my job to uphold the law, and I take that seriously. (Lawful)
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3
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Justice. What use are rules and laws when they obstruct justice? (Chaotic)
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4
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Money. If the gold is right, then so is the case. (Neutral)
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5
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Power. Knowledge is power, and if people want to keep their secrets, that's my decision, not theirs. (Evil)
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6
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Knowledge. Information is all I desire. (Any)
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Bond |
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1
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I've put countless people in prison. I'm sure most of them would kill me if they could.
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2
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I had a trusted associate who helped me with my investigations.
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3
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There is someone that I once loved. Someone I left behind...
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4
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I work closely with the guards, criminals, or urchins in a certain area. They help me in my investigation as long as I help them as well.
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5
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I have one clue from the mystery I never solved, a small trinket.
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Flaw |
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1
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I have my own mystery I have to find the answer to at all costs.
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2
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I prefer to work alone; others will just get in my way.
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3
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I am suspicious of everyone, seeing people in the worst light when given the chance.
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4
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In my pursuit of the truth, I sometimes go too far and endanger others.
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5
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I am a neat freak and have panic attacks when things aren't how I think they should be.
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6
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I think I am the smartest person that ever lived. No, I know it.
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7
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I have an addiction—not a debilitating one, but I feel the effects if I go too long without it.
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