Fey Information Broker

You are a collector of secrets and a curator of connections. Whether through charm, cleverness, or subtle magic, you know how to make people talk, and more importantly, how to make them listen. Your name may not be widely known, but your influence is quietly felt in many places. Information flows towards you like moths to a lantern, and very few truths remain hidden for long once you decide to look.

Some see you as a harmless social butterfly. Other know you better: you are a living network, a walking archive of favors owed and secrets shared.

Ability Scores: Your talents lie in perception, analysis, and understanding others rather than physical prowess. This background reflects your sharpened instincts and mental acuity, honed through years of observation, conversation, and careful study of people and their secrets.

Feat: Your experience navigating social networks and hidden information grants you a unique edge. This feat represents your ability to gather intelligence, read situations, or maintain a broad web of contacts built on trust, charm, and discretion.

Skill Proficiencies:

You are trained to both uncover hidden truths and interpret the intentions behind them.

• Investigation reflects your ability to follow leads, uncover patterns, and piece together fragments of information.

• Insight represents your talent for reading emotions, detecting lies, and understanding motivations beneath the surface.

Together, these skills define your role as an analyst and information gatherer.

Tool Proficiencies:

You rely on practical tools to support your work and maintain discretion.

• Disguise Kit: Used to subtly alter your appearance or presentation when gathering information under different guises.

• Calligrapher’s Supplies: Used to record notes, encode information, and maintain careful written records that only you fully understand.

Languages: Your work has brought you into contact with many cultures and hidden circles. You have learned an additional language to better navigate these spaces, interpret coded messages, or earn trust among those who value discretion.

Equipment:

You begin your adventures equipped for subtlety and observation:

• A disguise kit for adopting alternate appearances when necessary

• A small, decorated notebook filled with coded notes, symbols, and half-written leads

• A set of fine but colorful clothing suitable for social environments

• A personal token from a past contact, favor, or deal

• A belt pouch containing 15 gp

Each item reflects your reliance on preparation, presentation, and careful documentation rather than brute force.

Suggested Characteristics

d6	Personality Trait
1	“I treat conversations like puzzles, every word is a clue.”
2	I’m warm, open, and easy to trust, even when I shouldn’t be.
3	I always seem to know more than I let on.
4	I collect people the way others collect souvenirs.
5	I listen far more than I speak, and remember everything.
6	defuse tension with humor, kindness, or charm.

d6	Ideal
1	Knowledge. Secrets shape the world, and I intend to understand them.
2	Connection. Information means nothing if it isn’t shared wisely.
3	Control. The informed hold the power.
4	Freedom. No truth should belong to only one person.
5	Protection. Some secrets exist to keep people safe.
6	Influence. Change happens quietly, one conversation at a time.

d6	Bond
1	“Someone once trusted me with a truth that changed my life. I won’t betray that kind of trust lightly.”
2	One of my contacts saved me when no one else would.
3	I’m building a network strong enough to challenge a greater power.
4	A secret I uncovered had devastating consequence. I won’t repeat that mistake.
5	I owe a favor I can never fully repay.
6	I protect my contacts fiercely; without them, I am nothing.

d6	Flaw
1	“I sometimes know things I really shouldn’t… and can’t always resist using them.”
2	I struggle to trust people who don’t offer something in return.
3	I overestimate my ability to control situations.
4	keep secrets even when honesty would be kinder.
5	I fear becoming irrelevant or forgotten.
6	I’m too curious for my own good.