Long before you embraced the life of an adventurer, you learned that kingdoms are shaped as often by whispered conversations as by drawn swords. Whether serving within a royal court, noble household, influential merchant consortium, or the grand salons of Erosia’s cities, you mastered the delicate art of etiquette, diplomacy, and social grace.

Courtiers are expected to navigate a world where reputation carries immense weight. A carefully chosen word can mend fractured alliances, while an ill-timed insult may ignite feuds that last generations. You became adept at reading a room, recognizing hidden ambitions, and understanding the subtle desires that motivate those around you. To a courtier, every gathering is a negotiation, every celebration an opportunity, and every conversation a chance to strengthen relationships or uncover valuable truths.

To a courtier, desire is expressed through influence. You understand that nearly every decision is driven by longing—for power, recognition, security, affection, or legacy. Rather than forcing your will upon others, you learned to guide conversations with patience, empathy, and impeccable timing.

Many courtiers leave behind lives of privilege and politics in pursuit of greater purpose. Some seek forgotten knowledge or diplomatic solutions to distant conflicts, while others discover that the greatest stage for changing the world lies beyond the palace gates.

Skill Proficiencies. Insight, Persuasion

Tool Proficiencies. Calligrapher’s Supplies

Languages. Two languages of your choice.

Equipment. A set of fine clothes suitable for formal occasions, a signet ring or letter of introduction from a respected patron, a writing kit with quality parchment and sealing wax, a notebook containing names, favors, and important contacts, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp.

Feature: Courtly Connections

Your experience among influential circles allows you to navigate civilized society with confidence. In cities, noble estates, temples, and centers of government, you can usually identify the individuals who hold genuine authority regardless of their public status. Given sufficient opportunity, you can arrange introductions, secure audiences with local officials, or learn the prevailing political climate through polite conversation and established etiquette.

Veiled Play. Measured Composure. When you successfully resolve a significant social encounter through diplomacy rather than violence, choose yourself or one willing creature who participated in the exchange. That creature reduces its Arousal by 1.

Unveiled Play. Master Negotiator. Once per long rest, after peacefully resolving a meaningful social conflict or successfully negotiating an agreement between two willing parties, choose yourself or one willing creature who contributed to the negotiation. That creature either reduces its Arousal by 1 or regains 1 spent Libido.