Intimate Advocate

Intimate Advocate

A boundary spoken softly is still a boundary. A contract signed beautifully can still be unfair.

You worked as an Intimate Advocate, assisting courtesans, donors, companions, ritual participants, pleasure workers and clients when agreements involving bodies, privacy, compensation or magical influence became too important to leave vague. You reviewed terms, witnessed negotiations, explained customary protections and helped people state what they wanted before someone else decided for them.

Work with your GM to determine who trained or employed you. Perhaps you served a guild, temple, civic office, independent advocacy house or pleasure district association. You may have spent most of your career preventing disputes, or perhaps one catastrophic agreement convinced you that somebody needed to learn how to read the fine print.

Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Persuasion

Tool Proficiencies: Calligrapher’s supplies

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A set of calligrapher’s supplies, a document folio, blank contract pages, sealing wax, a small handbook of customary service terms, a token from a former client, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp

Feature: Terms and Boundaries

You understand the ordinary structure of contracts involving personal service, confidentiality, compensation, consent and professional conduct. When reviewing a mundane agreement, you can usually identify its major obligations, obvious omissions, contradictory terms and clauses that place unusual responsibility on one party.

You also recognize the language used by guilds, licensed establishments and civic authorities that regulate intimate services. In a settled community, you can usually identify the appropriate office, guild representative, advocate or public record source for a routine contractual dispute.

This feature does not provide legal authority, automatically invalidate an agreement or reveal hidden magical coercion. It gives you professional literacy and a clear sense of where questions should be asked.

Suggested Characteristics

Intimate Advocates become experts in the distance between what people assume and what they actually agreed to. Some are patient mediators; others develop a nearly predatory relationship with vague language, missing clauses and anyone who says, “We have always done it this way.”

d8	Personality Trait
1	I ask people to define vague words before I let a conversation continue.
2	I notice who has not spoken during a negotiation.
3	I keep copies of everything.
4	I can explain an uncomfortable boundary without sounding embarrassed by it.
5	I become suspicious when someone insists a written agreement would be insulting.
6	I remember promises long after everyone else has forgotten them.
7	I have a talent for asking the question everyone in the room hoped to avoid.
8	I cannot resist correcting a badly written contract.

d6	Ideal
1	Agency. People deserve meaningful control over agreements involving their bodies and labor. (Good)
2	Clarity. Consent and contracts both fail when important terms remain deliberately vague. (Lawful)
3	Fairness. Power should not decide whose boundaries matter. (Good)
4	Freedom. No custom is sacred merely because it is old. (Chaotic)
5	Privacy. Advocacy does not require public humiliation. (Neutral)
6	Accountability. A promise should mean something after the moment has passed. (Lawful)

d6	Bond
1	A former client rebuilt their life after I helped them escape an exploitative agreement.
2	My mentor taught me never to mistake silence for agreement.
3	I possess a contract signed by someone powerful who desperately wants it returned.
4	A guild once protected me when an influential patron tried to destroy my career.
5	Someone I failed to help still shapes every agreement I review.
6	I am searching for the person who forged my name onto a document I never witnessed.

d6	Flaw
1	I sometimes turn personal disagreements into formal negotiations nobody asked for.
2	I distrust verbal promises even when the speaker has earned my trust.
3	I can become combative when I sense an imbalance of power.
4	I have difficulty accepting that some people genuinely prefer informal arrangements.
5	I once stretched a rule to protect a client and created a precedent I now regret.
6	I tend to believe better wording can solve problems that actually require courage.