Goals: 1. Gather and spread information in as dramatic a fashion as you can manage. 2. Try to keep factions in conflict by playing them against one another. 3. Try to create so much chaos no one notices you entering the temple. You are Spy Gerzo, the "Operatic Villain." You do what you love and you love what you do. What is that? Simple: you create drama. Yes, technically, you also oversee acquisition and dissemination of mission-critical information to your Holding's officers, but that's more of a *vocation*. Your *passion* is using knowledge to create authentic moments of human emotion for use in art. Why simply report on a Governor's secret affair when you could confront them in front of their friends and family, record their emotional response, and sample it to make a bumping dance track? You know it's important to keep information flowing, to give your Governor and fellow officers the tools they need to stay on top, you just want to add a little flair to the whole thing. There is more to you, though, than a melodramatic gossip monger. Your persona isn't exactly *fake*, but it's not unreasonable to call it *constructed*. Yes, you prefer acting to gathering data into dry reports, but that's been true of basically every spy who's ever lived. Where you're different is that you've learned to lean in to the ridiculousness, to make the absurd cloak-and-dagger work for you not only tactically, but strategically. People tell you things because you're funny, or because they want to see drama, but information given through jest is still learned. This is your favorite of [[Sha the Disciple|Sha the Disciple's]] teachings: Truth is in Both the Sacred and the Stupid. You've come to the [[Council of Chains]] because this is a spectacular opportunity for chaos. Ten Holdings, counting your own, have all been brought to a Myriadic Council to discuss a temple from before time. As a spy, you want to see what's inside before anyone else. As a spy from [[Sandcastle]], you want to create as much drama as possible in the process. ## Asset: [[Observe and Report]] You've spent long hours learning to home in on key points while ignoring extraneous data, then distilling your findings in a few terse, encrypted sentences. Any time you talk to a character for longer than a few minutes, you can ask them one of: their Asset, their Lien, or the number and types of Resources they possess and they must tell the truth. You may use this once per hour per character. ## Lien: [[Lying for a Living]] The problem with being a professional fabulist is you can't unsee how gullible your loved ones are. You're constantly teaching people that discernment is a core competency. Whenever you make an assertion, you must point out you shouldn't be trusted, or attempt to seem as suspicious as possible. If someone believes you without proof, you regard this as a terrible failure on their part and try to teach them better.