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Companion

Background
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New in SW5eA brand-new SW5e background: the Companion - a courtesan who trades in compromising information (Sordid Knowledge) to secure favors, lodging, or money, with the risk of becoming a target. Pick two proficiencies from Acrobatics, Deception, Insight, and Performance.✨

You are experienced in the arts of companionship, and you provide these services for people who can afford to pay it. This may mean adult favors of the sensual variety, but it just as frequently means conversation, comfort, and company.

Feature: Sordid Knowledge. You have or can gain compromising information about people of importance. You may be able to leverage this information in order to acquire lodging, information, or even money. You may also become a target for having this information. Your GM may rule that any particular individual is either above reproach or is too careful in covering their tracks to provide such leverage.

Skill Proficiencies. Choose two from Acrobatics, Deception, Insight, and Performance

You enjoy people and you enjoy your work and you enjoy the money it brings. There is no shame in your profession and it is often highly regulated and regimented by factions or the local government. It requires outgoing and adventurous personalities to be a success, and often these traits lead them to adventures of a different sort.