Trader
You served your apprenticeship among merchants and traders. You've traveled dusty miles and haggled under distant skies.
Why are you living a life of adventure? Are you working off your debt to the company store? Are you escorting a caravan through dangerous wilds?
Are you raising capital to start your own business, or trying to restore the fortunes of a ruined trading family? Or are you a smuggler, following secret trade routes unknown to the authorities?
- Skill Proficiencies
- Persuasion, and either Culture, Deception, or Insight.
- Equipment
- Traveler's clothes, abacus, merchant's scale.
Supply and Demand
Suggested Characteristics
Trader Mementos
- The first gold piece you earned.
- Thousands of shares in a failed venture.
- A letter of introduction to a rich merchant in a distant city.
- A sample of an improved version of a common tool.
- Scars from a wound sustained when you tried to collect a debt from a vicious noble.
- A love letter from the heir of a rival trading family.
- A signet ring bearing your family crest, which is famous in the mercantile world.
- A contract binding you to a particular trading company for the next few years.
- A letter from a friend imploring you to invest in an opportunity that can't miss.
- A trusted family member's travel journals that mix useful geographical knowledge with tall tales.