Torture if part of interrogation if done professionally is unfortunatly quite good in extracting information.
You can get decent information from WW1, WW2, if you are lucky the cold war, and even more recent examples. To work with the informations, or if the poor soul does not have the informations you seek is another story, but....
And I mean professionally, like being done by people who are experts in Psychology, medicine and more.
14,12,17,16,18,18, or 18,18,17,16,14,12.
Now I have the bones I need a Pirate. No full caster... No how about a Swashbuckler!
Yes swashbuckler sounds excellent.