Category:Spy

Spies are skilled individuals who are sometimes directly and sometimes via a middle-man hired to shadow their target - a person or a guild - possibly even infiltrating them by going through rites of iniations and earning their trust. This will serve the purpose of learning information that would otherwise be hard or impossible to obtain. Whether they are keeping regular contact with their contractor and reporting their learnings, or laying low until the mission is complete, varies from spy to spy and mission to mission. The best spies aren't known as such even after a completed mission, even if they have left an organisation or a guild recently. This is partially to the fact that spies often use false identities, complete with a name, disguise and possibly even background. Anyone could become a spy - with variable results. Few choose or continue in it as a serious profession.