Artifact Broker

Everything that has ever been used for something significant leaves a residue. Your job is knowing what that residue is worth, to whom, and whether the transaction is commercially manageable.

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

Power Access: Glamourist (optional). Brokers with Glamourist access find the tradition's perceptive expressions, particularly Psychometry and True Sight, professionally applicable. Reading the history and nature of an object is directly relevant to assessing its value and provenance. Access at 1D, no Talent cost, requires appropriate lineage.

Starting Resources: Obsidian commercial credentials, established contacts in the hidden world's acquisition and collection community, working knowledge of the legal frameworks available for supernaturally significant material transactions, and a personal assessment of the current market for several major material categories.

Lineage Affinity: Faeborn, Human. The Broker role draws toward Wit-primary profiles with strong social and perceptive capacities. Faeborn brokers bring lineage-native perceptive depth that is directly applicable to provenance assessment.

Progression Track: Artifact Broker

Stage 1 (10 XP), Market Access
  The broker has developed the market knowledge and the contacts to
  function as an effective commercial intermediary.
  - Provenance Assessment: The broker can assess a supernaturally
    significant object, what it is, what tradition or entity origin
    it represents, whether it is what it is claimed to be, and a
    reasonable market value range. Wit + Lore vs Threshold 2 for
    standard material types; Threshold 3+ for unusual or contested
    provenance. The assessment is professional and documentable.
  - Buyer/Seller Network: The broker has established contacts on both
    the acquisition and divestiture sides of the hidden-world materials
    market. Once per session, they can identify a plausible buyer for
    a specific material or a plausible source for a needed item, not
    guaranteed access, but a genuine lead that can be pursued.

Stage 2 (25 XP), Senior Broker
  The broker has a track record and the market reputation that comes with it.
  - Transaction Management: The broker can structure complex transactions
   , multi-party acquisitions, materials with contested provenance, items
    whose legal status requires creative documentation, in ways that protect
    all parties from the most foreseeable liabilities. A Wit + Persuade roll
    vs Threshold 3 manages the structural complexity of a transaction that
    would otherwise require escalation to the firm's legal team.
  - Market Intelligence: The broker's position gives them visibility into
    what the hidden world's acquisition community is currently seeking and
    divesting. Once per session, the broker knows what a specific category
    of party, government agency, lineage community, religious organization,
    collector, is currently looking for or trying to move. This is
    commercially useful intelligence that is also occasionally significant
    for non-commercial reasons.

Stage 3 (50 XP), Principal Broker
  The broker has become one of the firm's most commercially significant
  assets, and one of the people in the hidden world who knows where
  things are.
  - Network Authority: The broker's market position gives them access to
    the highest-value segment of the hidden world's acquisition community,
    parties with significant resources and significant needs who work
    through trusted intermediaries rather than open channels. Once per
    campaign, the broker can facilitate access to a material, a party, or
    an arrangement that would not be available through any other channel.
    The transaction will cost something; what it costs is negotiable.
  - Disposition Intelligence: The broker knows, in general terms, where
    significant supernaturally relevant materials currently reside, which
    parties hold what, what is currently on the market, and what has moved
    recently. This knowledge is commercially sensitive. It is also sometimes
    operationally critical, and the broker has to decide when those two
    things are in conflict.