Trade

Origin: Kananite, Mazrian
Calling: Mastermind
Starting ability: ✪Negotiate

Language: Mazrian
Literacy: Glyphs
Starting items: 2 investments, 3𐤑

While Lord Adod is the god of Tel-Kanan, trade may well be the realm’s religion. Before the Empire ruled the realm, Kananite traders were famous for their purple dye, harvested from giant carnivorous snails. To this day, traders from the Empire and Tel-Kanan, if not friendly with one another, at least find ways to operate for mutual benefit. You start with the following ability:

Ask the Guide:

How much do they value that item or position?
What do we have that they would value?
Is this truly their final offer?

✪ Negotiate

Starting ability

Take -1 awareness and Compel a character to consider an offer in exchange for doing something. Explain your offer and what specifically you want the character to do.

You must have a shared language with the character or else some other way to communicate your offer.
If the character is hostile, you have a -2 penalty.

If you beat the character’s spirit, you successfully enter into negotiation with them, and they consider your offer. The character has the choice of (a) taking your offer as it stands or (b) making a plausible counteroffer. (The Guide determines what the character thinks is plausible.)You then have the choice of accepting their counteroffer, or using this ability again as a ➥counter. If you don’t take their counteroffer and don’t successfully Negotiate to consider a new offer, the negotiation ends.Deceptive offer. If your offer isn’t real, you must Deceive the character as a ➟following action. If you fail, they won’t consider your offer at all.Negotiation in battle. If you successfully Negotiate with a foe during battle, your negotiation effectively takes place outside the Fray. The foe won’t fight you or your allies while they consider your offer, and they’ll order their subordinates to stand down. If your offer is good enough, you might convince them not to fight you at all. But if you or your allies attack the foe during negotiation, it ends immediately and you can’t Negotiate with them again.

Abilities to Learn

✪ Merchant-Prince's Charisma

Mark of SPIRIT

Add 1 to the calculation that determines the size of your Compel Die.

✪ Secrets of Commerce

Mark of AWARENESS

You gain 3 revelations distributed as you like among the following lore, but not more than 2 for any single lore. Civilization, Cloak, Crafting, PoliticsAdditionally, you learn how to do business:Do Business As an endeavor when you rest in a settlement, Compel yourself to get down to business. Gain business-focus equal to your result. Spend this focus during your rest:

Spend 3 focus to hustle 1 imperial credit.
Spend 5 focus to schmooze a local merchant and discount a single item purchase to half price (rounded up, so a 5-credit item would cost 3)

The Guide can impose a –2 penalty or more if the settlement is inhospitable or otherwise bereft of willing buyers and sellers. Lose any focus you don’t spend during the rest.

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