Lawyer

From Free Citizens to Nobles, lawyers accuse and protect people’s honor before the law. Often employed more as prosecutors than defenders, they ensure that facts are told exactly as they happened. They are also responsible for formalizing important documents such as deeds of sale and titles of nobility.

• Skill Proficiency : Persuasion.
• Additional Equipment : Luxury Parchment and Ink

Profession: Insightful Discovery

After spending an hour creating one or more related documents, and running a DC-Medium Intelligence (Investigation) Check, you can create a legal document within the limits of the law, you can also report small hard-to-read writing to mask a possible trap. Alternatively, you can spend an hour examining documents, running a DC-Medium you can understand the true nature of a document and check for possible writing traps.

Ranks

Rank 1 – Stock Clerk

You have secured an apprenticeship with a real Lawyer, assist him in filling out documents and watch as he makes his accusations against criminals, while studying the various practices and procedures to be able to one day, be independent.

Holdings:

• A room in your teacher’s study.
• A law manual with notes written by a famous lawyer.

Progression: Get your attorney license from the Law Guild.

• Prepare 1,200 hours of case briefs.

Rank 2 – Lawyer

Having demonstrated your pro-efficiency in the knowledge of the law, you have been officially recognized as a Lawyer and have obtained permission to accuse or defend the lower class, you actively participate in trials that, although they are held on the streets and are brutal in their purpose, ensure the maintenance of the law. Although you do not yet have your own office, you have your own desk at the Law Institute of your city.

Holdings:

• A desk at your local law or courthouse. (Which in the case of small towns or villages is the mayor’s residence or the bailiff’s office.)
• An official title that allows you to visit the law archives of your region and recognizes you as a Lower Class Lawyer.
  • Grants a +1 bonus to your Intelligence proficiency bonus when performing your profession.

Progression: Bring a major case to your favor that will make you stand out as a great lawyer from the nobility.

• Prepare 2,400 hours of case briefs.

Rank 3 – High-Class Lawyer

The Nobility has recognized your abilities and you now have the right to defend and accuse them without being accused of High Prisoner. You now participate in more important legal events and have several clients among the Clergy and Nobility, they come to you for advice on the legal limits of your region or to construct legal documents for their priorities and interests.

Holdings:

• A prominent Private Law Firm and a title that demonstrates your status.
• A team of servants, other lawyers who are apprentices or Real Lawyers who follow other cases for your firm.
• Undisturbed access to the most important legal archives in your region.
  • Grants a +1 bonus to your Intelligence proficiency bonus when performing your profession. Stacks with prior rank (+2 total).

Progression: To pursue this profession you must be recognized as an attorney for the most powerful individual in the nation you live in.

• Prepare 4,800 hours of case briefs.

Rank 4 – Royal Advocate

You are among the most well-known figures in the art of defending or accusing someone in the name of the law, your study is now home to documents created in the name of the Sovereign or Ruler of your kingdom that helps you with legal advice and to create legal documents such as Titles of Nobility and the transfer of entire territories. You are also the one who is called if it is necessary to accuse an important Noble such as a Duke or a Marquis.

Holdings:

• A major law firm that serves as a study and school for young law apprentices
• Royal Documents related to deeds of Territories of your nation that you keep in a vault in your study.
• Access to the Ruler’s court to discuss matters related to the Law of the Nation when it is written into official documents.

Source: Adapted from Grim Hollow Campaign