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: An detective’s badge, a memento taken from a criminal I 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'm always craving a mystery to solve or a crime to bust.
2	I always write down bits of information I think is useful, even if I have to write on my hands and arms when I'm out of parchment.
3	I talk incredibly quickly or incredibly quietly when i am excited, making myself difficult to understand.
4	I try to help people less intelligent than me to understand what I am saying by t-a-l-k-i-n-g s-l-o-w-l-y.
5	I dislike it when people are quick to make judgements, and am not convinced about anything unless hard evidence is shown first.
6	I have a habit of doing something (biting nails, tapping fingers, twirling hair) when I am thinking.
7	I rarely talk, but I'm always watching.
8	I make a game of speculating what people around me do for a living, and what secrets they are hiding.

d6	Ideal
1	Hardworking. I'll solve any case, no matter the difficulty, as long as it's helping someone (Good)
2	Law. It's my job to uphold the law, and I take that seriously. (Lawful)
3	Justice. Nuts to the rules. Uphold justice no matter what. (Chaotic)
4	Power. Knowledge is power, and if people want to keep their secrets, that's my decision, not theirs. (Evil)
5	Money. If the gold is right, I'm on the case. (Neutral)
6	Knowledge. Information is all I desire. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I've put countless people in prison. I'm sure most of them would kill me if they could.
2	I had a sidekick who helped me with my investigations.
3	I have my own mystery I have to find the answer to at all costs.
4	I work closely with the guards, criminals, or urchins in a certain area. They help me in my investigation as long as I help them as well.
5	There is someone that I once loved. Someone I left behind...
6	I have one clue from the mystery I never solved, a small trinket.

d6	Flaw
1	I prefer to work alone.
2	I am suspicious of everyone, seeing people in the worst light when given the chance.
3	I think I am the smartest person that ever lived. No, I know it.
4	I have a serious addiction.
5	In my pursuit of the truth, I sometimes go too far and endanger others.
6	I am a neat freak and have panic attacks when things aren't absolutely perfect.