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 blade and club, using pain to get the answers they need. Whatever the case, no secret can hide from their razor's edge.
*background copied from dndwiki
- Skill Proficiencies: Pick two from Deception, Intimidation, Insight, and Medicine.
- Tool Proficiencies: Torture Tools, Disguise kit.
- Languages: Thieves Cant is an option.
- Equipment: Torture tools, Disguise kit, a set of common clothes, A Black Hood, a souvenir (from a victim or yours), a small belt pouch with 10 gold.
Your can choose to operate under one of these specific Torture Purposes.
Forced To Do It. Someone (an enemy, your master, a completely unknown person) has forced you to torture people. You can't quit it because of a threat that was made to you, such as killing a relative, reveal a terrible secret, or you are simply being controled by magic to do it.
| d6 | Purposes |
|---|---|
| 1 | To Get Information. You are sure that your techniques are completely efficient and you will take all the time you need to get what you want, but once you are done, you let your victims go. |
| 2 | To Teach a Lesson; For Revenge. Your victim has done something terrible to you, someone you cared for or to your master, and now it has to pay; but once the lesson is learned, you release your victim so it has to roam with his scars and his conscience. |
| 3 | For Pleasure. There is something inside of you that asks you to hurt people. And you have to obey... |
| 4 | Ordeal. The victim has been accused of heresy and you are the instrument of divine justice. You apply your most cruel techniques and your God (or Gods) will decide. If the tortured survives, then is acquitted. If the tortured dies... was guilty. |
| 5 | Forced To Do It. Someone (an enemy, your master, a completely unknown person) has forced you to torture people. You can't quit it because of a threat that was made to you, such as killing a relative, reveal a terrible secret, or you are simply being contro |
| 6 | By Need. There was no one else willing to do it and you were the chosen one. You may have liked it or you may have hated it, but it's in your conscience and you know that you will have to do it again some day... |
As an experienced interrogator, you are able to tell if someone is lying. You also know the right words to use when you are trying to get information from common folk. With time, you learned to perceive deceivers and cheaters. You have a +3 bonus to insight, intimidation, and persuasion rolls.
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 indivisual had dies with their previous life.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I always keep a personal belonging or a piece of my victims. |
| 2 | I believe that the torture is an art and put a lot of effort on doing it flawlessly. |
| 3 | Sometimes I give false information to higher ups after the torture session. |
| 4 | I don´t bother in 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 recieve forgiveness on 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 to 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 the 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 posible. (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 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 comission. |
| 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 feel really uncomfortable outside my workplace after years of this practices. |
| 2 | I secretly feel disgusted by the things I do to my victims. |
| 3 | Sometimes I feel the impulse of doing harm in the wrong place to the wrong or innocent people. |
| 4 | I have no idea what I'm doing and most of times I kill the people I torture without results. |
| 5 | I tend to hurt myself after I finish a session. |
| 6 | I do not comprehend how the people act and think. They should be tortured. |
Given to your several years as a torturer, you have witnessed a lot of horrible situations that clearly influenced your sanity, making you pretty hard to impress. The horrors of battle and some certain spells do not completely affect you, as well as some nightmare creatures. Take advantage on saving throws vs fear effects.
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