Board Thread:Role Ideas (Mafia)/@comment-32651233-20180622213420/@comment-2601:448:100:675B:2075:6689:4496:B6C5-20180625161314

This role isn't broken at all, and is a completely separate entity from the Consig. The Consig is used as a perfectly accurate Investigator, and is more or less used for finding the Jailor or Evil roles. The Historian is completely different. Since most Evil roles already use a fake will, the Historian's strength really lies in his ability to see how much information someone knows. The Historian's ability to read Wills could not at all replace the Consig. The Historian is more of a Support than an Investigative, and he cound easily synergize with roles like the Blackmailer, the Forger, or the Janitor, or even the Disguiser, to get accurate findings for his fake will. Essentially how this role would be played is:

1.) Read someone's will and pick out info.

2.) Figure out how much information a player knows.

3.) Talk with the Mafia Deception/Support to decide how your faction will deal with them. (roleblock, blackmail, clean, etc.)