Coroner

Coroner Alias: Forensic Cop Alignment: Pro-town Role type: Informative Choice: none

A Coroner is a role that can target a dead player to discern information about them.

These are generally not seen outside games with limited reveals, No Reveal, or potentially bastard reveals (in which role flips are not necessarily accurate). The typical function of a Coroner is such that they learn the full-reveal flip of the player in a limited- or No Reveal game. If a game is not advertised as having anything other than full role reveals, a Coroner probably implies the existence of a Janitor.

Coroners are generally Town-aligned.

Variations

Exactly what a Coroner learns has been known to vary:

• In some games the moderator will publicly announce the full role reveal after they are investigated by a Coroner.
• In some games Coroners can investigate dead players to determine some clue as to who killed them. However, this has potential to be even more powerful than Watcher.
• One variant which turns up in two-mafia games is a combination janitor/coroner who learns what the other janitor hides, possibly justified in flavor by them sharing a dump site.

Use and Power

Coroner is a niche role that basically only appears to counter limited reveals. This makes it important when it is necessary, but not considered important enough to warrant kill immunity.