Prologue: Amira
Obsession
“I sat down across the table from him, and I asked - ‘How did you do it?’. And now I know.”
She’d been interrogating someone, some criminal who’d done some seemingly impossible feats, and asked “How did you do it?” She was a good enough interrogator to make them talk... so know she knows, and it turns out there are some things you’re better off not knowing.
Knowing a secret like that can be damaging to your sanity (hence her two hinderances), which contributed to her fall. But on top of that, she’s knows, but she doesn’t understand. She was dangerously curious even before touching forbidden knowledge, so now she can’t let go of the idea, can’t resist trying to understand it.
The skills to pay most attention to are forbidden knowledge, and intimidation. Amira likes making people afraid of her — possibly too much. Having gone to the dark side, it might be in-character for her to demand secrets that are completely irrelevant to her, just for the sake of making someone reveal things they don’t want to.