Whether a torturer is employed by those in power or their own desires, they are skilled in the art of breaking the body and the mind. A torturer may choose to rip into the minds of their victims with honeyed words or devilish threats. They may choose to rip into the body of their victims with a blade and club, using pain to get the answers they need. Whatever the case, no secret can hide from their razor’s edge.

When making a torturer, consider what drives them. Are they torturing under the local crown’s orders? What is the compensation for these activities, material or spiritual? Have these acts taken any toll on them mentally? When thinking about why you are traveling, consider what torturing achieves for a character on the road. They might be in pursuit of an elusive wanted criminal. Or, perhaps they are desperate to find someone at any means necessary. Even simpler, maybe they just want to extort as much as they can from anyone they meet, and torturing is the only way they know how.

Skill Proficiencies: Intimidation and Medicine

Equipment: A set of common clothes, a black hood or balaclava sack to hide your face, torture tools, a souvenir (an ear, a ring, maybe a finger or a chunk of your favorite victim's hair), and a belt pouch with 5 GP.

Suggested Characteristics

Those skilled in the art of torture are affected by their sessions depending on their mental stability or susceptibility to guilt. Most sane individuals disconnect themselves from emotion, for the guilt of causing such pain to others would cause them great depression. However, those mentally ill might experience the opposite, dropping down into depressive lows till they can cut open another victim. In both cases, any innocence the individual had died with their previous life.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I always keep a personal belonging or a piece of my victims.
2	I believe that torture is an art and put a lot of effort into doing it flawlessly.
3	Sometimes I give false information to higher-ups after the torture session.
4	I don´t bother releasing the victims after I´m done with the session and let them rot in a dark cell.
5	I always reward those victims who collaborate with the interrogatories.
6	I´m always praying to receive forgiveness for my actions and to be stronger in doing so.
7	My instruments must be in optimal conditions and perfectly clean, as well as my working place.
8	The mind of my victims is way more fun to work with than their bodies.

d6	Ideal
1	Creativity. I´m always crafting new tools and thinking of different methods to use. (Chaotic)
2	Dread. The more suffering and pain I inflict, the more I enjoy my work. (Evil)
3	Compassion. There is no need to overdo the pain I provoke, and I will be as kind as possible. (Good)
4	Righteousness. Collaborate and leave unharmed. (Neutral)
5	Ethics. If you need a medic, I will stop. (Lawful)
6	Professionalism. If the coin is good enough, I will cut into anyone. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I had a master, and I want to make him proud.
2	My work has to become legendary.
3	If I don´t do this, other people will have to carry the horrors I have witnessed.
4	I see my work as a divine commission.
5	Truth must be known at any cost.
6	I can't stop doing this, no matter how hard I try.

d6	Flaw
1	I secretly feel disgusted by the things I do to my victims.
2	Sometimes I feel the impulse of doing harm in the wrong place to the wrong or innocent people.
3	I have no idea what I'm doing, and most of the time, I kill the people I torture without results.
4	I tend to hurt myself after a session.
5	I feel really uncomfortable outside my workplace after years of these practices.
6	I do not comprehend how people act and think. They should be tortured regardless.