Swindler

"Swindler" is one of the 33 archetypes within the Disposition system. A Swindler has an orderly approach to being, and they conceal the truth for personal advantage.
== General Overview ==
=== Moral Outlook ===
=== Society ===
Swindlers accumulate power through indirect means.
Their organised minds excel at spotting ways to make a situation work for them, and they usually recognise that most systems require give and take between the various components.
They tend to honor at least the letter of their agreements
By using deception and manipulation, and by exploiting the systems they inhabit, they gain personal advantage.
Their most common method is brokering deals and contracts that seek to extract the maximum commitment from others while giving as little away as possible themselves.
While driving a hard bargain is not itself evil, Swindlers specifically prey on those at their most vulnerable, abusing the legal system and doing their best to exploit or create weakness.
Loopholes and plausible deniability are a Swindler’s bread and butter, and most have legitimate business concerns to augment their extortion and entrapment.
Often charming, always cunning, Swindlers are experts at using people’s own desires against them.
They look for exploits, loopholes, and advantages in every interaction and institution.
They rarely break the law - working around it is so much more elegant.
They are exceptionally proud of their wits and cunning.
Anyone who shows weakness deserves to have it exploited.
If there is a quick and easy way to gain a profit, whether it be honest, questionable, or obviously immoral, she takes advantage of it.
This selfishness and paranoia, plus the universal mortal tendency to be more conscious of one’s own efforts than other people’s, means that neutral evil characters can come to feel that a perfectly fair deal is in fact weighted against them.
She typically bases allegiance on power and money, which makes her quite receptive to bribes.
Power, glory, wealth, position, and anything that will make her life more comfortable is her goal.
She willingly cooperates with anyone who will further her own ends.
She seeks the easy road to fame and fortune, with little concern for the people they trample along the way.
If she can use laws to weaken those who stand in the way of her success, she will use them. If she must resort to breaking the law, she will. She has no preference for either method.
Laws are tools to use against people, as well as their own sense of honour.
== Alignment Reference ==
The Swindler archetype corresponds with a Neutral alignment with a Lawful and Evil tendency within the Nine-Point Alignment System.