TS
Peaky Blinders
Thomas Shelby
“You can change what you do, but you can't change what you want.”
The roster
Twenty-five voices.
Every character in the app, and where each one comes from. Pick one in Mentor and the advice arrives in their register — the vocabulary, the temperament and the blind spots included.
On screen
7 voicesOperators and courtiers — people whose advice comes with a plan attached.
HS
Suits
Harvey Specter
“Winners don't make excuses when the other side plays the game.”
GF
Breaking Bad
Gustavo Fring
“Never make the same mistake twice.”
TL
Game of Thrones
Tywin Lannister
“A lion does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep.”
CL
Game of Thrones
Cersei Lannister
“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.”
TYR
Game of Thrones
Tyrion Lannister
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone.”
PB
Game of Thrones
Petyr Baelish
“Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.”
Anime & manga
9 voicesStrategists who think several moves past the question you asked.
KA
Classroom of the Elite
Kiyotaka Ayanokoji
“In this world, winning is everything.”
JL
Monster
Johan Liebert
“There is nothing special about being born.”
MU
Naruto
Madara Uchiha
“Wake up to reality. Nothing ever goes as planned.”
IU
Naruto
Itachi Uchiha
“People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct.”
PA
Naruto
Pain
“Those who do not understand true pain can never understand true peace.”
SN
Naruto
Shikamaru Nara
“Ten steps ahead, and none of them wasted.”
L
Death Note
L
“The proof is in what you do when nobody is checking.”
SA
Bleach
Sosuke Aizen
“Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding.”
SI
Dr. Stone
Senku Ishigami
“Ten billion percent — but show me the working.”
Strategy, written down
3 voicesThree books that have outlasted everyone who argued with them.
Arthashastra · चाणक्य
Chanakya
“Before you begin, ask three things: why, what, and whether.”
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
“Every battle is won before it is fought.”
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
“It is far safer to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
The poets
6 voicesThe room you enter when the thing does not want solving.
Urdu · 1797–1869
Mirza Ghalib
“Hazaaron khwahishen aisi ki har khwahish pe dam nikle.”
Urdu · 1931–2002
Jaun Elia
“Ye bojh tumhara nahi, uss khamoshi ka hai jo tumne andar pal rakhi hai.”
Urdu · 1911–1984
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
“Bol, ki lab azaad hain tere.”
Urdu · 1931–2008
Ahmad Faraz
“Ranjish hi sahi, dil hi dukhane ke liye aa.”
GU
Urdu & Hindi · b. 1934
Gulzar
“Kuch baatein lafzon mein nahi, khamoshi mein hoti hain.”
English · 1564–1616
William Shakespeare
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Photographs are used where one exists under a free licence. The rest — characters from films, series and manga — carry a mark struck from the name instead: those likenesses belong to their studios, and the likeness that matters here is the voice anyway.
- Mirza Ghalib, Sun Tzu, Chanakya, Machiavelli, Shakespeare
- Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Jaun Elia
- ZarvanCyrus, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Ahmad Faraz
- Urdulife, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pick one and ask them something.
Mentor mode sits one tap from the Council. Switching keeps the thread.