A Personality is the face for a neighborhood or a social dynamic between neighborhoods. Personalities can be individuals, or perhaps small groups of like-minded individuals.
The Activist longs for change and represents those who feel likewise. They may use rhetoric, influence-peddling, money, or direct action to achieve their aims. Whatever their goal, it now seems to be in reach.
The Activist longs for change and represents those who feel likewise. They may use rhetoric, influence-peddling, money, or direct action to achieve their aims. Although driven, they are unsuccessful and desperate.
The Factotum is not a leader, but serves those who do. They handle the complexities of day-to-day business. They hold the keys to the doors of power, and may unlock them for the right querent.
The Factotum is not a leader, but serves those who do. They struggle with complexities of day-to-day business. Their inexperience, their patron's incompetence, or a heavy workload all weigh them down.
The Hardliner upholds the de facto or de jure state of affairs. They resist change, whether from hard experience, stubbornness, or selfishness. They are likely to prevail against uncoordinated efforts at reform.
The Hardliner upholds the de facto or de jure state of affairs. They resist change, whether from hard experience, stubbornness, or selfishness. With reform looking likely, they fight even harder to hold onto their diminishing status.
The Mediator tries to negotiate between competing factions or ideologies. Doing so depends on good relations within each group. Right now they're able to strike effective bargains, achieving meaningful change rather than mere calm.
The Mediator tries to negotiate between competing factions or ideologies. Doing so depends on good relations within each group. Those relations may be threatened, the groups may refuse to budge, or the Mediator has settled for a facade of peace rather than progress.
The Newcomer is unfamiliar with the city and their place in it. They may be a new ruler, an important visitor, or the heir to a fortune or legacy and now returning to inherit. For now, those around them are helping them adjust.
The Newcomer is unfamiliar with the city and their place in it. They may be a new ruler, an important visitor, or the heir to a fortune or legacy and now returning to inherit. Alas, those around them do not have their best interests at heart.
The Plotter wishes to exploit conditions for some private goal. They might be corrupt officials, influence-peddlers, or blackmailers. Whether their goals are selfish or selfless, they seem likely to succeed.
The Plotter wishes to exploit conditions for some private goal. They might be corrupt officials, influence-peddlers, or blackmailers. They are hunted, on the verge of exposure, using their remaining tools to survive.
The Scion is the beneficiary of long city tradition. They may come from noble stock or long-hoarded wealth, hold an old and honored name, or hold significant land or relics. They seem well-liked and happy in their position.
The Scion is the beneficiary of long city tradition. The may come from once-honored aristocratic stock, inherit ill-gotten gains, or live in the shadow of whispered accusations and dark secrets about their bloodline.
The Turncoat betrayed someone or something else, and that betrayal will always hang over their head. They have secured a place for themselves, but those who know may still remember, and watch.
The Turncoat betrayed someone or something else, and that betrayal will always hang over their head. They now suffer for their transgression, however right or wrong it was, and scheme or hope for a return to power.