The Veil Division was an elite magitech initiative formed to create perfect operatives — soldiers, infiltrators, and assassins enhanced through arcane engineering and mental conditioning. Whether you were built in a laboratory or trained in a hidden facility, you were designed for precision and obedience. The war may be over, but the habits remain. You read rooms like mission maps, plan conversations like strikes, and trust no one but the weapon at your side.
Now, free from the command that created you, you walk a thin line between tool and person — between focus and fury.
- Skill Proficiencies: You were trained for versatility and precision. Choose two skills from the following: Arcana, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Intimidation, or Persuasion.
- Tool Proficiencies: Choose one set of tools to reflect your field specialty: Tinker’s Tools, Smith’s Tools, Disguise Kit, or Forgery Kit.
- Languages: You know one additional language of your choice, often a coded dialect or arcane cipher once used by Veil operatives.
- Equipment: A decommissioned Veil identification badge, a personalized sidearm or weapon focus bearing your unit’s insignia, a set of reinforced field fatigues or tactical robes, and a metallic disk etched with your former unit number.
Every Operative of the Veil was conditioned differently, trained for a particular role or purpose. Roll on the Operative Conditioning Table or choose one that fits your training to reflect the specialty that defines your old programming.
Years of training — or programming — under the Veil Division have left you with an ingrained capacity for calm precision under pressure. Your breathing, focus, and combat reflexes can be consciously re-aligned to perform at peak efficiency.
As a bonus action, you can center yourself and recall your conditioning. For the next 10 minutes, you gain one of the following benefits of your choice:
- Combat Protocol: You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened or charmed.
- Recon Protocol: You can’t be surprised, and you add double your proficiency bonus to your next Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) check made during this time.
- Arcane Protocol: If you can cast spells, you have advantage on Constitution saving throws made to maintain concentration until the start of your next turn.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
In addition, people familiar with the Veil’s insignia or operations recognize you as a former operative. You may be able to request limited aid, intelligence, or shelter from other ex-agents — or risk exposure to those who still serve the Division.
Suggested Characteristics
Operatives of the Veil are products of relentless discipline, arcane enhancement, and psychological conditioning. Whether they escaped the program or were discharged after a mission gone wrong, they often struggle to separate identity from instruction.
Some try to reclaim their humanity through purpose, others retreat into the comfort of command structures, and a few simply continue to function as they were built to — methodically, efficiently, and without hesitation. Your former conditioning shapes the way you view people, orders, and control.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I speak in short, precise sentences — I was trained to waste neither words nor bullets. |
| 2 | I’m calm under pressure; chaos around me feels like home. |
| 3 | I catalog every room I enter — exits, angles, threats, weaknesses. |
| 4 | I have trouble relaxing unless I’m armed or armored. |
| 5 | I still follow mission protocol when I wake up, even though no one’s giving orders anymore. |
| 6 | I don’t raise my voice; control is my comfort. |
| 7 | I study people the way others study weather — small tells reveal coming storms. |
| 8 | I use humor as a weapon to defuse tension or mask my discomfort. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Precision. Every motion, word, and shot should serve a purpose — anything less is chaos. Lawful |
| 2 | Autonomy. I am my own commander now. No chains, no control, no gods. Neutral |
| 3 | Balance. Violence and restraint must coexist; one without the other destroys. Neutral |
| 4 | Efficiency. Waste nothing — not time, not energy, not emotion. Neutral |
| 5 | Adaptation. Survival isn’t about strength, it’s about flexibility. Neutral |
| 6 | Redemption. I want to prove I’m more than what they built me to be. Good |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | My weapon was designed to kill me if I ever turned against the Veil — I keep it as a reminder of what I survived. |
| 2 | I still receive encrypted transmissions from my old command. I can’t tell if they’re real or echoes of my conditioning. |
| 3 | Someone from my old squad vanished during a mission. If they’re alive, I’ll find them — or finish the job. |
| 4 | My augmentations were created by someone I once trusted — and they betrayed that trust. |
| 5 | I keep a coin with my unit’s insignia. When I flip it, I remember who I used to be. |
| 6 | I owe my life to another Operative who disobeyed orders. Their rebellion cost them everything. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I don’t see people — I see objectives, assets, or liabilities. |
| 2 | I freeze when someone gives me a direct order; part of me still expects to obey. |
| 3 | I crave structure and routine, even when I claim to hate control. |
| 4 | I can’t function without a mission; peace makes me restless. |
| 5 | I treat allies like tools — efficient, useful, replaceable. |
| 6 | I’m afraid of what I’ll become if I ever lose control of my emotions again. |
Contacts
As a former Operative of the Veil, you likely maintain — or are hunted by — remnants of your old network. Other Operatives, field analysts, magitech engineers, or command handlers may still be active, each with their own loyalties and secrets.
Some may offer information, shelter, or access to restricted technology in exchange for favors. Others might see you as a liability to be erased. Whether you seek them out or avoid them entirely, the Veil never truly lets its creations go.
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