You work for the Office of Judgement, based high upon Mount Celestia. Working as an Executor, you are a detective first and an executioner second; you root out evil and sin wherever it hides, and discover the soul responsible. It gets one chance to repent and recant its evil, and if it does not — well. You are here, and they are not.
The Office does not deputize the eager. It selects only those who can be trusted to seek the truth more than the killing, and it watches them closely for the rest of their lives. Every Executor is issued a commission, a ledger, and a contact they will likely never see. The commission is a formality. The ledger fills. The contact is the only thing standing between an Executor and the accusation that they are simply a murderer with better paperwork.
You may have been recruited from a temple, a courthouse, a battlefield, or a cell. What the Office saw in you is not something it explains.
- Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Investigation
- Tool Proficiencies: Thieves' Tools, Alchemist's Supplies
- Equipment: A seal of the Office of Judgement (a signet, badge, or brand), a ledger of names in your own hand, a set of manacles, a vial of holy water, a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 15 gp
You can petition your celestial contact for intelligence regarding a named individual on the Material Plane whose deeds are notably good or notably evil. The Office answers with what it knows — the target's general whereabouts, the shape of their crimes, and who shelters them. This is not akin to Divination: The Office answers slowly and imprecisely, and never about the same soul twice. In exchange, the Office issues warrants of its own: grievous sinners, enemies of justice, and those who ally themselves with the Hells or any other evil power. An Executor who refuses too many warrants finds that the line has gone quiet.
You also carry the authority of Mount Celestia with you wherever you go. Upon presenting your official seal, good-aligned clerics, priests, and churches will be inclined to offer you discounted or free healing and lodgings, and will endeavour to assist your investigations however they can, provided it does not interfere with their typical duties. Likewise, followers of evil may be inclined to impede or sabotage your investigations.
Suggested Characteristics
Saint Executors are defined by two habits that do not sit comfortably together: Patience required to be certain in their investigations, and the conviction to act decisively once they are.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I ask questions in threes, and never fail to note down the answers. |
| 2 | I speak to the condemned gently. It costs nothing, and it unsettles the worst of them. |
| 3 | I don't sit with my back to a door, and I don't drink what I didn't pour. |
| 4 | I write everything down. The ledger will always outlive people like me. |
| 5 | I am deeply uncomfortable being thanked. |
| 6 | I recite the charges aloud even when there is no one left to hear them. |
| 7 | I enjoy this work. I have learned not to say so aloud. |
| 8 | I quote the Office's statutes from memory, at length, to anyone who asks, and some who do not. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Procedure. The chance to recant isn't mercy. It's the law, and the law is the only thing separating me from what I hunt. (Lawful) |
| 2 | Mercy. Every soul I am forced to take is one I failed to turn. (Good) |
| 3 | Certainty. I would rather spend a year finding the right name than an hour spending the wrong one. (Neutral) |
| 4 | Judgement. Titles, tribunals, and treaties are how the guilty hide and buy time. I don't give them the opportunity. (Chaotic) |
| 5 | Purity. Sin is a contagion that rots civilisation to the core. Excision is the only treatment that has ever worked. (Evil) |
| 6 | Duty. I didn't choose the warrant, but since it chose me, I chose to be the kind of thing worthy of carrying it. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | My contact has never shown me their face, but I would know their voice anywhere. |
| 2 | There is a name in my ledger I have not been able to bring myself to cross out. |
| 3 | Someone once talked me out of an execution. They were innocent. I have never forgotten it. |
| 4 | The Office took me in when nothing else would. It is owed the whole of my life. |
| 5 | I keep the first warrant I was ever issued, unopened. I know what it says. |
| 6 | My weapon was consecrated in my name. If it is taken from me, I will retrieve it or die trying. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I mistake being certain for being right, and I am very often certain. |
| 2 | I cannot leave a question unanswered, even when the answer costs more than the ignorance would. |
| 3 | I have executed someone who did not deserve it. I have told no one. I have not stopped. |
| 4 | I trust institutions and distrust people, which is precisely backwards. |
| 5 | I offer the chance to recant because it is required, not because I want it taken. |
| 6 | I have no patience for small sinners who expect to be forgiven. |
Comments