Diplomat

You possess the silver-tongue for diplomacy. Leadership figures look to you to defuse (or incite) conflict. As a diplomat, negotiation is your trade and the fate of empires can be risen or sealed by your word. The diplomat is a skilled wordsmith and negotiator. 

Skill Proficiencies: Persuasion, Intimidation

Languages: Any skilled diplomat is well versed in the inner workings of the various cultures and empires around them. Choose from any two languages in addition to common.

Equipment: A bottle of black ink, a quill, a small knife, a letter from your last negotiation to be delivered to its recipient, a set of fine clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Diplomats are skilled negotiators. Their insight into peoples inner-workings is unmatchable; the salespeople of war, trade, and mood.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I feel that I am the greatest wordsmith of all time. I can talk anyone down or lift anyone up.
2	A culture is my greatest passion, I love learning about a people and their ways.
3	I seek to resolve conflict. I will do anything to make both parties happy.
4	I'm in it for the money, and I will tell anyone, anything with conviction as long as I am making my way towards the bank.
5	I’m willing to listen to every side of an argument before I make my own judgment.
6	Others can't comprehend how great I am, and I really should be the one running things. That's why I pit others against one another.
7	I am horrible communicating with people, but somehow people find my voice soothing, and for that I have been successful.
8	I love inciting chaos, my tongue can cause nations to crumble before me.

d6	Ideal
1	Knowledge. Knowing a people is to study a part of them and for part of them to become part of you.
2	Beauty. I find peoples and their ways of life fascinating. I find the beauty in each and every person I interact with.
3	Logic. Every interaction is a chess game between wants, needs, fears, and dislikes. I play that game like a champion.
4	Chaos. People think I have some grand plan. I don't, it's just all random and I am waiting to see how things turn out.
5	Power. Being the right-hand to any ruler needing my negotiation skills is only one step closer to becoming the head of the order.
6	Coin. I just do it for the money.

d6	Bond
1	I have a true bond with the people I have met and helped, and I will protect them at all costs.
2	The lives of two groups hangs in the balance and only I can keep them from eliminating eachother.
3	I work to keep kingdom in tact because I believe in it and will fight for it.
4	The more I know, the more I can manipulate. I must learn all I can from all I meet.
5	I have negotiated a family member's freedom, and I will continue to protect it.
6	I owe everything to my mentor, and I wont stop trying to impress them.

d6	Flaw
1	I am awesome... I know it, and no one can convince me otherwise.
2	I act like the savior of every situation, but really I just want to watch the world burn.
3	I will sacrifice everything and everyone if the deal secures the greater good.
4	I overlook obvious solutions in favor of complicated ones.
5	I speak without really thinking through my words, invariably insulting others.
6	I can’t keep a secret to save my life, or anyone else’s.

Contacts

Through your career, you have rubbed elbows with the highest of society and the lowest of it's underbelly. One of those contacts has stuck; bonded to you as a friend, ally, enemy, or burden. Depending upon your contact, members of that contacts group or faction may view you favorably (or unfavorably) depending upon the backstory discussed with your DM. 

d4	Contact
1	Head of State: The head of a kingdom or state has had dealings with you. Weather the outcome was good or bad, you at least can say that you know a king, queen, dictator, mayor, or Governor somewhere.
2	Underworld Broker: Sometimes those with negotiation skills don't always deal with the most savory of clients. The underworld and its denizens sometimes pay as well as empires and you aren't about to turn a blind eye to some coin.
3	Warlord/General: Sometimes having someone with an army at their back has it's advantages. You have become acquainted with a local military commander.
4	Mentor: You have learned the arts of diplomacy from a great mentor of yours. This mentor has had years of practice in negotiation and may be valuable to call upon in your future endevours.