Lore Keeper

Most of what you know came from people who learned it the hard way. Your job is to make sure the cost of that education isn't paid again.

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

Power Access: Mediumship or Glamourist (optional). Lore Keepers who are practitioners often maintain their tradition alongside their archival work, the two reinforce each other. Access at 1D, no Talent cost, requires the Lore Keeper to have a lineage that supports the tradition.

Starting Resources: A personal archive, physical, digital, or both, representing the Lore Keeper's accumulated research. Access to at least one other significant archive through their Network connections. A working knowledge of the verification protocols and a reputation for keeping information secure.

Lineage Affinity: Human, Haunt, Faeborn. The Lore Keeper role draws toward lineages with strong cognitive and perceptive Wit profiles.

Progression Track: Lore Keeper

Stage 1 (10 XP), Research Depth
  The Lore Keeper has developed the archive and the judgment to use it.
  - Threat Research: Given access to their archive and a scene's worth of
    time, the Lore Keeper can produce a working threat assessment, weakness,
    known behavioral patterns, documented destruction methods, for any threat
    category the archive covers. A Wit + Lore roll vs Threshold 2 surfaces
    the relevant material. Threshold 3+ surfaces obscure or variant information.
  - Source Evaluation: The Lore Keeper can assess the reliability of a piece
    of information, whether it comes from firsthand field experience or
    secondhand account, whether it has been independently confirmed, whether
    it contradicts other reliable sources. This does not require a roll for
    information within their established specialty; for outside their specialty,
    Wit + Lore vs Threshold 2.

Stage 2 (25 XP), Archive Authority
  The Lore Keeper's archive and reputation have made them a destination.
  - Extended Research: The Lore Keeper can conduct extended research on a
    specific question between sessions. The GM provides one piece of
    significant discovered information per downtime period, something from
    the archive that is relevant to the current investigation and that the
    character would plausibly find with dedicated research time.
  - Cross-Reference: When two or more separate incidents or threat signatures
    are described to the Lore Keeper, they may identify connections the field
    team has not noticed (Wit + Lore vs Threshold 3). A successful roll
    surfaces a genuine pattern, historical precedent, or common factor.

Stage 3 (50 XP), Primary Source
  The Lore Keeper has become one of the Network's most significant knowledge
  resources, and a target for parties who would prefer that knowledge
  unavailable.
  - Archive Access: The Lore Keeper has either expanded their own archive to
    cover all current threat categories in the catalog, or has established
    relationships with other archives sufficient to functionally cover them.
    No threat category is beyond their research capacity, though obscure
    variants and emerging threats still require a roll.
  - Institutional Memory: The Lore Keeper knows things that have happened
    before, historical incidents, past actors, the outcomes of situations
    that parallel the current one. Once per session, the GM provides one piece
    of historical intelligence that directly informs the current situation: a
    precedent, a prior actor, an outcome from a similar case that carries
    meaningful information about what is likely to happen now.