Broker

You are not in the business of what gets moved. You are in the business of it getting moved. The distinction matters until it stops mattering, and your job is to know when that is.

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

Power Access: Hollow Pact (if Shadow-Bound Marked lineage) or Pact-Shifting (if Skinchanger lineage). The Broker profession does not grant Power Access to lineages that don't carry it, but practitioners who enter the Market from lineage communities find their capacities treated as professional assets rather than personal matters. Non-practitioner brokers are the majority.

Starting Resources: An established position within the Market's broker network, existing client relationships, supplier contacts, and the reputation capital that makes the position viable. Secure communication infrastructure (encrypted, compartmentalized, regularly rotated). A cover profession that explains income and activity to parties operating outside the hidden world.

Lineage Affinity: Marked (Shadow-Bound), Skinchanger, Human. The Broker role draws toward lineages with strong Wit profiles and social capacities. Dhampir brokers exist but are viewed with specific suspicion by parties aware of the Courts' position on Market operations.

Progression Track: Broker

Stage 1 (10 XP), Established Broker
  The broker has the network and the reputation to function as a
  reliable Market intermediary.
  - Market Network: The broker has established relationships across
    the Market's supplier and buyer landscape in their specialty category.
    Once per session, the broker can source a specific material or service
   , not guaranteed acquisition, but a genuine lead with a reliable
    probability of fulfillment. Common materials are routine; rare or
    restricted materials require more effort and generate more visibility.
  - Reputation Management: The broker's standing in the Market provides
    a measure of protection, parties who want to maintain access to the
    broker's network have incentive not to create direct problems for them.
    This is not security; it is a calculation that holds until it stops
    holding. The broker knows the difference.

Stage 2 (25 XP), Senior Broker
  The broker has developed the network depth and the judgment to handle
  transactions that smaller operators avoid.
  - Complex Transactions: The broker can manage multi-party or
    high-sensitivity transactions, materials with contested provenance,
    services from parties with complicated relationships to each other,
    deals that require careful structuring to complete without creating
    visible complications. A Wit + Persuade roll vs Threshold 3 manages
    a transaction that would otherwise require extraordinary caution.
  - Intelligence Access: The broker's market position gives them
    visibility into what parties across the hidden world are buying
    and selling. Once per session, the broker knows one significant
    fact about another hidden-world party's current activities, what
    they're seeking, what they're divesting, what they've recently
    acquired. The information is reliable within the Market's knowledge.

Stage 3 (50 XP), Major Broker
  The broker has become one of the Market's significant operators,
  someone whose network is valuable enough to attract attention from
  parties across the hidden world's organizational landscape.
  - Network Authority: The broker's position gives them access to the
    highest-value tier of the Market's operations, transactions that
    smaller operators don't see and that parties outside the Market
    would pay significantly for access to. Once per campaign, the broker
    can facilitate access to something, a material, a party, information,
    an arrangement; that is not available through any legitimate channel.
    The transaction will have costs beyond the financial; what those costs
    are becomes clear in use.
  - Operational Autonomy: The broker's position in the Market is
    significant enough that other Market operators extend them operational
    latitude, access to infrastructure, logistical support, and the
    Market's debt management function if situations require it. This
    access is extended because the broker's network is worth protecting.
    It is not extended from loyalty.