Analyst

Everything that happens in the field eventually becomes a file. The analyst's job is to know what the file actually says, including the parts that weren't written down.

Favored Save: Wit Save (+1D to Wit + Resolve rolls)

Power Access: Mediumship (optional). Not all analysts are practitioners; those who are find the capacity for reading residual impressions and consulting non-living witnesses professionally valuable in ways that are hard to explain to their supervisors.

Starting Resources: Bureau database access (office-based), case file clearance to their current project category, a personal log that is technically a federal record and therefore should not contain anything they wouldn't want discoverable.

Lineage Affinity: Human, Haunt. The Analyst position draws heavily from lineages with strong cognitive Wit profiles.

Progression Track: Analyst

Stage 1 (10 XP), Research Capacity
  The analyst has learned what the Bureau's records actually contain and how
  to find it.
  - Pattern Recognition: Once per session, the analyst may identify a
    connection between two or more apparently unrelated case elements,
    a recurring entity signature, a geographical pattern, a behavioral
    similarity; that the field team has not noticed. This is a Wit + Lore
    roll vs Threshold 2; success surfaces one genuine connection.
  - Archive Access: The analyst can access historical BUA case files
    predating current active investigations, including some that are
    flagged as resolved but internally contested.

Stage 2 (25 XP), Senior Analyst
  The analyst has developed sources and developed opinions about what the
  Bureau's official positions don't cover.
  - Source Network: The analyst has cultivated two or three non-Bureau
    contacts with relevant expertise, academic specialists, retired agents,
    or hidden-world figures willing to talk. Each can be consulted once per
    session for information in their specialty.
  - Threat Assessment: The analyst may prepare a written threat assessment
    for an active case. A well-prepared assessment (Wit + Lore vs Threshold 3)
    grants the field team +1D on one relevant roll against the assessed threat
    per scene for the remainder of the investigation.

Stage 3 (50 XP), Division Analyst / Specialist
  The analyst has become someone whose assessments are read at the NRD level.
  - Systemic Pattern: The analyst may identify systemic patterns, coordinated
    activity, long-term agendas, from case files. Once per campaign, a
    successful systemic analysis (Wit + Lore vs Threshold 4) reveals one
    major previously unknown actor or agenda operating in the campaign's
    setting. The GM uses this to introduce genuine plot intelligence.
  - Classification Authority: The analyst may reclassify or declassify
    material within their current project category without supervisory sign-off.
    This is technically outside their authority. The Bureau has not yet made
    this formally clear.