The Jakovian Agents are responsible for Education, Propaganda, Interrogation/Torture (actually an artform to them), and Infiltration.
The Jakovian Agents are responsible for Education, Propaganda, Interrogation/Torture (actually an artform to them), and Infiltration.
All Agents, irrespective of their main focus, would have the following abilities:
Characteristics: Wits, Perception, Tech, Calm
Natural Skills: Charm, Impress, Observe
Learned Skills: Academia, Empathy, Etiquette, Knavery, Read Urthish, Speak Urthish, Stoic Mind.
Blessings/Curses: Suspicious (2 pts: +2 to Perception when rivals are around)/ Cal(+2 pts: -2 Passion when asked for aid).
Beyond this 'basic' training, individual agents will also possess skills and attributes that enable them to fulfil their primary roll:
Very much the same thing in the Jakovian Agency.
Learned Skills: Bureacracy, Think Machine, Social (Teaching), 1 or 2 Lore skills.
Learned Skills: Physick, Torture.
Learned Skills: Acting, Disguise, Inquiry, Lockpicking, Search, Sleight of Hand, Streetwise.
Individual Jakovian Agents, especially the Infiltrators, will also possess some martial training, focusing largely on martial arts and concealable/silent weaponry. However, such is not their forte. They are expected to be cunning and skilled enough not to have to rely upon their martial skills, let alone be discovered. Discovery is an unforgivable (and terminal) failure in the eyes of the Agency. The Kossacks can be called in if any use of force is needed. Agents are provided with equipment and weapons depending upon need and assignment.
This is far from a complete listing. Veteran Agents are likely to possess extra skills that may be entirely unexpected.