Reader

Reader is an Epic currently working for The Dalles City Guard, filling a crucial role in the city's security force. His power is so useful that orders exist to kill him rather than allow him to fall into enemy hands, and his personality is so obnoxious that he is consistently voted "Most Likely to be Punched in the Jaw" in monthly reports.

Biography
While he seems to know everything about those around him, nothing at all is known of Reader before he became an Epic. He first appeared as one of the Epics in the service of Koschei the Deathless, whom he is thought to have ultimately betrayed. He later joined The Dalles City Guard after Stephen Vondra's rise to power.

Appearance
He is a skinny man--not skin and bones, but not fat. He usually wears a suit to work, but with his shirt untucked and his tie loosened.

Powers and Abilities
Reader has no offensive or defensive Epic powers, with only a form of personal divination as an Epic ability. However, this ability is extremely powerful; at a glance, Reader can divine more knowledge of a person than that person likely possessess himself. He can determine the age, name, life history, powers and abilities, love life, secrets, or practically any other detail about a person, often piecing together pieces of information from the target's subconscious. It is impossible to keep secrets from him, though curiously he is not capable of divining Epic weaknesses. This ability is passive, meaning that he can't ever turn it off except in the case of someone using his weakness on him.

Personality and Behavior
Occupying an important and luxurious role in The Dalles, Reader spends much of his days in an office with an abundant supply of wine waiting for newcomers to the city to be brought to him for screening. He enjoys using his powers to torment and manipulate those around him, ignoring the City Guard's restrictions on power usage, and not just because he can't actually stop using his powers. As a consequence he has made an abundance of enemies in the city.