Detective

For a significant portion of your life you've been searching for answers. Mysteries have always fascinated you, and solving them has made you become far better at searching for clues and reading people. What answers were you searching for? Did you always find satisfying answers to your questions, or was there one answer that you wish you could forget? Have your inquiries made enemies or friends? In any case, it's landed you a job as a detective, perhaps as a paying job for a specific city, perhaps as a wanderer with a mystery-solving hobby.

Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Investigation

Tool Proficiencies: Thieves’ Tools or a Gaming Set

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A detective’s badge, a memento taken from a criminal you put away (a smoking pipe, a flask or tankard, or a pair of tinted glasses), a magnifying glass, a small pocketbook, an ink pen, thieves’ tools or a gaming set, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Suggested Characteristics

Detectives are very knowledgeable about many different subjects, and are good at learning information from anything available. However, this does make them somewhat nosy or manipulative, and sometimes pushes people away from them. To detectives, no mystery is too difficult, no challenge too dangerous to stop them from finding the truth, though what they do with the truth is up to them.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I can’t stop asking questions!
2	I require silence to do my work. I detest noise.
3	My art is as important as my investigation, and I often paint, write, or compose music about what I find.
4	The truth does not come to those who wait. I must seek it regardless of the cost.
5	The darkness is my friend, and I feel lonely without it.
6	I am only at ease when investigating. Sitting still for too long is unsettling.
7	I'm convinced that people are always trying to steal my secrets.
8	I am horribly, horribly awkward in social situations.

d6	Ideal
1	Duty. The work of investigation is too important to abandon. (Lawful)
2	Power. Knowledge is the path to power and domination. (Evil)
3	Clarity. The truth is beautiful. The darkness can only be dispelled with light. (Good)
4	Dissemination. Oppressive forces cannot keep the truth from surfacing. (Chaotic)
5	Calling. The compulsion to learn about the world is strong, and I cannot resist its call. (Any)
6	Self-Improvement. I strive to always improve my craft. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I have a fellow investigator with whom I trade information. I seldom see them, but our bond is deep.
2	My family does not like my work, but they love me, and I, them.
3	My loyalty is to my kingdom, and my fealty drives me to discover things to help keep it safe.
4	I love my benefactor, and do everything for them, even if they are not of a higher station.
5	I have an arch-rival. I will do anything in my power to best them.
6	My memories will outlive my descendants if I can live to complete them.

d6	Flaw
1	I am easily distracted by the promise of information.
2	I trust no one unless they have thoroughly proven themselves.
3	Unlocking an ancient mystery is worth the price of a civilization.
4	For me, no topic or knowledge is off limits.
5	I speak without really thinking through my words, invariably insulting others.
6	I hold a blatantly incorrect worldview that I bring up at any opportunity.