Pact Maker

Pact Makers can write and enforce the conditions of Free Pacts within the Free City

Career

Qualifications

Proficiency required: Calligrapher's supplies
They also must complete a ritual at the Oathneedle to charge their Pactmaker's Lancet. The ritual is kept highly secret by the Pactmakers themselves, and it rumored that the pactmakers first make prospective candidates swear an oath to keep it secret before they are allowed to attempt the ritual. You must find another Pactmaker who is willing to guide you through the ritual.

Career Progression

Apprentice

You may write one pact per day between up to two parties. The failure condition of the pact is limited to:

Impose the Poisoned, Blinded, or Deafened condition for up to 6 hours on the failing party

Financial compensation between parties of value up to 100 gp

Verbal declarations to be said in public by the pact breaker

You also gain access to the cantrip Glyphmark through your Pactmaker's Lancet

Journeyman

You may write 3 pacts a day with up to 3 parties each. You may extend the length of any imposed condition to 24 hours

Financial compensation of up to 500 gp

Impose the Frightened Condition for up to 24 hours

Impose up to 4 levels of Exhaustion on the Pactbreaker

Master

You can write up to 10 pacts a day with a limit of 5 creatures on each. You may extend the life of any imposed condition to Two Weeks

Impose financial compensation of up to 1000 gp

Impose the Petrified Condition

Impose up to 5 levels of Exhaustion

Infect the pact breaker with a disease condition.

Impose Forced Servitude of up to one year

Grandmaster

You may write up to 50 pacts a day with as many creatures in each pact as you like. You may extend the length of any imposed condition up to one year

Impose financial compensation of any level, including the entire net worth of a creature

Impose Forced Servitude of up to Ten Years

May write Death pacts.

Payment & Reimbursement

A Pact maker may charge what ever they like to write and enforce their pact, but the standard rate is typically 5-10% of the value of the pact in order to create and enforce it. Pacts involving more parties and conditions may be changed more.

Perception

Social Status

Pactmakers are generally respected, but kept at a distance from most of society.

Operations

Tools

Calligapher's Tools Pactmaker's Lancet

Materials

Parchment

Provided Services

Pact You spend 10 minutes writing a scroll outlining the terms of the pact and its conditions. At the end of the 10 minutes, all parties involved must seal the pact with a drop of blood. A Pact Maker may impose any condition available to their current skill level, and any condition available to skill level below them.

Alternative Names

Needlemen, blood suckers

Type

Legal

Demand

Relatively high