.: Theomars Ghellant :.
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] : | Appearance:Age: 33
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] : | Class:Merchant
Weapon Affinity: Swords - C
Money - S
Charisma - A
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] : | Personality:To the world, Theomars maintains the mask of a charming, handsome man of marriageable age and significant wealth. Amiable and full of fascinating stories, he seems to be the kind of person everyone wants to be around. To him, however, its just a means to an end. While he believes its better to be loved and respected, he'll gladly settle for being feared and regarded with terror.
Despite a cocky and playful attitude, in private, he ruthlessness and cunning become plain to see. While he is surprisingly loyal to his friends and allies, he does make a point to keep most of them at arm's length, just in case.
Talents and Shortcomings:Its effortless for him to read people's intentions and leverage their self-interests. Rather, that's a necessary skill to survive in commerce. He's always so certain he knows how people act, and while he assessments are quite accurate, even he can be taken by surprise.
Perhaps he's become somewhat jaded by "business as usual" as he finds altruism and random acts of charity very strange, despite having done those very things himself.
Hopes and Fears:His immediate goal is to end the long war and ensure both he and his associates prosper afterwards. He's determined to make the world a safe place to live again. However, despite his rhetoric, he refuses to take to the front lines and diligently assists his allies at a distance.
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] : | RelationshipsVera - Aide & Business Partner - Excellent
Nohr Twin -
Hoshido Twin -
Faye -
[Grey] -
[Hoshido Sibling 1] -
[Hoshido Sibling 2] -
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] : | History:The Ghellant name belongs to a deposed noble family of Nestra. They had an long and prestigious lineage, but had fallen in status due to persistent financial hardship. Theomars, as the second youngest of six siblings, had few prospects, so he worked through various administrative apprenticeships from a young age. When he was thirteen, the crown finally called in his family's outstanding debt, and the honor of his house finally collapsed to ruin. At the time, he had the good fortune of being favored by his employer, Nestra's Master of Coin.
However, with his family name tarnished and the heads of his clan being openly ridiculed, he continued his apprenticeship elsewhere under the tutelage of a man named Ulric Tharn, an inveterate haggler and successful merchant.
Under him, Theomars really began to make a name for himself as a cunning businessmen capable of outmaneuvering his rivals at market. He grew into a competent merchant in his own right within the next few years.
However, it wasn't until he met his current partner, Vera, that his empire truly began to expand. When he first found her for sale at a trading post, no one paid any mind to the blind, beastkin slave. Her previous owner was frantically trying to sell her off, presumably unsatisfied with having a cripple for a servant. Unsurprisingly, no one else seemed to want her either.
Theomars saw her as a bargaining chip to use against the local wolfskin brigands harassing his caravans, so he bought her without much further thought. He was in for a rude awakening, however, when he came to to discover she was a pariah to her own kin as well. As Vera explained, the beast tribes had no interest in keeping the blind and feeble around, and regarded them with scorn. But, Vera knew of a few safe trails and remembered their locations by smell alone. Although skeptical at first, Theomars invested in his new servant's knowledge and was able to travel through hostile beast tribe territory without being accosted.
Vera ultimately proved to be his most treasured servant. She demonstrated a nigh-supernatural sense for discerning lies, and knew how to help steer his caravan away from bandit attacks from scent alone.
Theomars knew talent when he saw it and treated her well. In fact, he still receives ridicule on occasion for dressing a slave girl in the expensive finery of noble women. He personally tutored her in matters of finance and economics, eventually grooming her into his business partner. He offered to adopt the Vera into his family, and remove the magical brand that enslaved her to his will. Strangely, the blind girl rejected him, merely stating she "preferred to be underestimated". He formally adopted her into his family anyway, and though he has no need or desire to keep her branded as a slave, her magic seal remains.
The two troublemakers have been inseparable since.
Now, with the long war taking heavy tolls on once thriving trade routes and caravans being raided by the state, Theomars and Vera have begun instigating unrest and distrust towards the monarchs of Hoshido and Nohr. The war has become very bad for business and must end, else every commoner and noblemen will be taxed into an early grave.
