Advocate

The system was not built for your clients. Navigating it on their behalf anyway is the work.

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

Power Access: Glamourist (optional). Advocates with Glamourist access find the tradition's perceptive expressions, True Sight, Reading, professionally valuable: knowing what someone is before deciding how to represent them shapes the approach. Probability Reading is quietly useful for assessing how a situation is likely to develop.

Starting Resources: Legal credentials (bar membership or equivalent professional licensing), Safe Harbor nonprofit affiliation documentation, working relationships with relevant municipal and social service systems, and a professional reputation for handling unusual cases with discretion.

Lineage Affinity: Human, Faeborn, Haunt.

Progression Track: Advocate

Stage 1 (10 XP), System Navigation
  The Advocate has learned which parts of the system can be worked and
  which parts need to be worked around.
  - Procedural Expertise: Once per session, the Advocate may navigate a
    bureaucratic or legal obstacle on behalf of the team or a client without
    a roll, the Advocate's professional standing and procedural knowledge
    are sufficient for routine institutional access, record requests, and
    similar challenges. Novel or high-stakes procedural obstacles still
    require a Wit + Persuade roll.
  - Client Assessment: The Advocate has developed a practiced eye for what
    a client's situation actually is vs. what it appears to be. A Wit +
    Notice roll vs Threshold 2 identifies the most significant unstated
    factor in a client's situation, what they're not saying, what they're
    afraid of, what they need that they haven't asked for.

Stage 2 (25 XP), Senior Advocate
  The Advocate has a track record that carries weight.
  - Institutional Standing: The Advocate's professional reputation opens
    doors that bureaucratic access alone doesn't. Once per session, they
    may invoke their standing to request a meeting, access a record, or
    obtain cooperation from an institutional contact who would otherwise
    be unresponsive. The GM determines the limits of what standing can
    accomplish in a given situation.
  - Legal Cover: The Advocate can prepare documentation or a legal framework
    that provides cover for an operation, a rationale for access, a
    legitimate-seeming purpose for what the team is doing, documentation
    that will hold up to routine scrutiny. Preparing this takes a scene;
    it lasts for the duration of the relevant operation.

Stage 3 (50 XP), Lead Advocate / Policy
  The Advocate has become someone whose judgment the organization relies
  on for the cases where the stakes are highest.
  - Systemic Access: The Advocate has contacts at the level where systems
    get changed, legislative staffers, agency policy directors, nonprofit
    leadership with significant institutional reach. These contacts can be
    invoked once per campaign to produce a systemic change: a policy
    modification, a cleared record at the agency level, an institutional
    decision that affects how the system treats a category of client.
  - Crisis Management: When a situation has produced Veil exposure, a
    mundane witness, a documented incident, a press report, the Advocate
    can manage the response. A Wit + Persuade roll vs Threshold 3 contains
    the exposure: the witness is managed, the document is reclassified, the
    story doesn't run. Higher Thresholds for wider exposure. This is the
    advocate working the system at its limits; it requires real institutional
    capital and leaves a trace.