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Great War Veteran

Though Ireland did not have conscription, huge numbers of Irishmen, both nationalist and unionist, joined the British Army during the Great War (as it was known at the time). With the end of the war thousands of demobbed soldiers returned home to a country little changed from when they left. Those of a unionist leaning found themselves falling into positions with the police or remaining with the British Army. Those who had a nationalist leaning had become increasingly angered with the lack of progress towards a united Ireland and began to form their own military units.

Eventually the Irish War of Independence erupted and between 1919 and 1921 the two sets of veterans would find themselves on opposite sides of the political divide. The nationalists forming the Irish Republican Army, the unionists either stayed within the British Army, or if they had been demobbed re-enlisted into the Black and Tans.

At the end of the war the unionist veterans returned to their barracks or to their police jobs in the newly formed Northern Ireland. The vast majority of the nationalist veterans joined the Gardai (the southern Ireland police force, known as The Guards) or the new Irish army but a small number of extremist nationalist veterans began a terrorist war against Northern Ireland and those who supported it. The civil war then erupted and for nearly a year the nationalist veterans turned on each other in a bloody battle for political supremacy.

Both sides were responsible for many atrocities during these wars and any Investigators attempting to a play a veteran character during this time would need to be aware of the ramifications of being identified as a veteran who was implicated in, or took part in, one of the darker episodes of the war.

Due to the things they have seen and done during the war Veterans begin with lower Sanity and improved Firearms and Demolitions skills. All Veterans will have at least a basic knowledge of automobiles and in particular motorbikes.

Occupation Skill points: EDU x 2 + (DEX x 2 or STR x2)

Credit Rating: 10–30

Suggested Contacts: Politicians and civic leaders who they may have formerly served with, police, military, organized crime, terrorist organisations.

Skills: Climb, Drive, Dodge, Demolition (+10 percentiles to base), Fighting, Firearms (+10 percentiles to base), Stealth, Survival Swim, First Aid, Mechanical Repair.

Special: The Investigator will start the game with -10 Sanity due to the traumas of war. They will, however, not lose any Sanity for seeing any dead human bodies regardless of the state of the bodies.

Type
Military
Cathulu Ireland

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