Steampunk National Security Character Type Help Needed

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Originally Posted by Pursuivant

The Counterspy Master. An ever-so-respectable, seemingly bland, upper middle class Whitehall bureaucrat, possibly with a legal background, who nominally shuffles papers for a living. His actual role is to serve as staff officer to Lord Whatshisname and to perform administrative and logistical magic. His secondary role is to act as sage and "computer hacker" since he has access to all manner of interesting government records and the means to correlate them. Sort of like M in the James Bond movies, but a bit more savvy, inscrutable, and dangerous.

Mycroft Holmes.