Board Thread:Role Ideas (Town)/@comment-39067078-20200201160528/@comment-39067078-20200214211017

Scientist being super common is the point. I want to make a gold standard of a role's name so that it isn't viewed as just another trope.

Necrologist and Thanatologist don't describe it sufficiently. Sure, he studies cadavers, but no, he's not a necrologist or thanatologist. Thanatologists study the biological process of death, not the connection between a dead body and clues between other people.

Necrologists, if they existed, would more or less be learning about celluar decay, I would assume.

I would not change this name, Scientist is wholly sufficient for this role. He does not study dead bodies, but rather connections between people. Putting "-ologist" at the end of a role's name leads to another topic.

The Tiffany Problem
The Tiffany Problem is a problem where Tiffany was used in the middle ages and was short for "Theophania", yet writers can't use it because it seems too modern, even though it was used back then.

This Scientist is merely a scholar. If you want, I will change it to Scholar. He could theoretically use his connect the patterns between two living people, but I did not include that for the sake of balance.