As a bonus action, make a Dexterity check to move up to your speed, with doubling for burst movement at the cost of not moving until the end of the turn after use, representing your feline sprint.

As a bonus action, study a creature to use Wisdom instead of Charisma for the contest, and improve your ability to read the target's fighting style.

Your study of adversaries lets you learn, read, and counter them. You can use a bonus action to inspect a creature, gaining clues about its capabilities, and when creatures near you attack allies or hide, you may use your reaction to seize the advantage.

When a visible attacker hits you, you can use your reaction to halve the damage.

When a creature misses you with an attack, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the next attack it makes before the end of its turn.

When you are hit by an attack you can see, use your reaction to halve the damage. This is the rogue's signature defensive escape.

You gain a feature that lets you use your reaction to avoid death itself or cling to the edge of it, depending on the subclass rules you follow at high level.

When you hit a target with a finesse or ranged weapon attack and have advantage on the attack roll, or when another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it and you do not have disadvantage, you deal extra damage once per turn.

If you fail a check, you can spend luck to turn failure into competence, ensuring the outcome is not entirely left to chance.

You are exceptionally skilled in a broad range of tasks. You gain proficiency in thieves' tools and several skills, and you can read, write, and use your talents to navigate any environment where secrets matter.

You have advantage on checks to find hidden creatures or objects, and you can use your keen observational talent to spot details others miss.

You gain an Ability Score Improvement or feat.

You gain additional Expertise.

You can read the intentions of nearby foes and respond with devastating precision. Your combat analysis becomes more reliable and your Sneak Attack grows stronger.

You gain another Ability Score Improvement or feat.

You become exceptionally hard to surprise and can act decisively when danger erupts around you.

Your Sneak Attack increases again, and you gain another set of Expertise. You also learn to move through social and physical spaces with near-invisible efficiency.

You gain an Ability Score Improvement or feat.

You gain the ability to find a path through any conversation or conflict. Your talent for reading opponents becomes more lethal, and your judgment is nearly unerring.

You gain another Ability Score Improvement or feat.

Your study of a target lets you prepare the perfect countermeasure, and your information gathering sharpens further.

You gain another set of Expertise and your ability to disappear into plain sight becomes infamous.

You gain another Ability Score Improvement or feat.

Your command of hunting the guilty or concealing yourself from the guilty reaches its apex. Your measured violence is almost impossible to escape.

You gain a further set of Expertise, and your combat analysis becomes dramatically harder to resist.

You gain another Ability Score Improvement or feat.

If you do not know a piece of lore, you can usually find a book, scholar, or archive where it is written down. In modern practice, Paroka leverages institutional records, sealed archives, digital databases, and the quiet fear of underpaid clerks.