Bloodline Investigator

The Courts settle their own disputes. The Investigator's job is to establish what actually happened before the Court convenes, so the First Blood isn't adjudicating on incomplete information.

Favored Save: Body Save (+1D to Body + Fortitude rolls)

Power Access: Blood Sense at 1D, no Talent cost (Dhampir lineage required). Investigators develop the tradition in depth; it is the primary tool of their practice.

Starting Resources: Court investigative authority (the right to ask questions and access community spaces in an investigative capacity), personal equipment for evidence collection and documentation, and the kind of community trust that comes from doing this work with genuine care for the community being investigated.

Lineage Affinity: Dhampir, required for Court standing.

Progression Track: Bloodline Investigator

Stage 1 (10 XP), Court Investigator
  The Investigator has demonstrated the competence and the judgment
  that Court investigative authority requires.
  - Community Access: Within Dhampir communities with Court standing,
    the Investigator has recognized authority to conduct investigations.
    Community members are expected to cooperate; the Investigator's
    standing makes that expectation real rather than nominal.
  - Blood Sense: Investigation (Specialization)
    When using Blood Sense applications in an active investigation
    context, reading a scene, assessing a community member's state,
    establishing what occurred at a location, the Investigator rolls
    at +1D. The tradition and the investigative work have developed
    together into a coherent practice.

Stage 2 (25 XP), Senior Investigator
  The Investigator has accumulated enough case history to have a
  developed sense of what Community situations look like before
  they become visible to the Court.
  - Pattern Recognition: The Investigator has developed intuition for
    community situations that are developing toward something serious.
    Once per session, the GM provides one proactive indication of a
    community situation that hasn't yet surfaced formally, a behavioral
    pattern, a relationship dynamic, a sequence of events that the
    Investigator's accumulated experience reads as significant. The
    indicator is real; what it indicates requires further investigation.
  - Cross-Court Standing: The Investigator's reputation extends beyond
    their own Court. They have standing to conduct investigations in
    other Courts' communities when the matter concerns multiple bloodlines
    or when the relevant Court's own investigative capacity is compromised.

Stage 3 (50 XP), Principal Investigator
  The Investigator has become the person the Assembly calls when a
  matter requires investigation at the highest level of competence
  and the highest level of sensitivity.
  - Assembly Sanction: The Investigator can be commissioned by the Assembly
    to conduct investigations with cross-Court authority, the full weight
    of the assembled Courts behind their investigative standing. This
    authority is used sparingly; it is significant when invoked.
  - Lineage Reading: The Investigator's Blood Sense practice has developed
    to the point where they can read historical lineage information,
    not just present state, but the bloodline history carried in a
    subject's physiology. This represents the deepest application of
    the tradition's investigative capacity: Wit + Blood Sense vs
    Threshold 4 to surface a specific historical fact about a subject's
    bloodline. The information is real. What it means for active
    investigations is for the Investigator to determine.