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You have spent your life acquiring a massive amount of wealth. Whether through inheritance or savvy business dealings, this fortune has come to be a part of your everyday life. This wealth has allowed you to finance a variety of business operations.

Work with your DM to determine the nature of this wealth and how you obtained it. Was this wealth handed to you or did you come from nothing? Have you made any enemies or business partners throughout your journey? Perhaps you had to betray someone important or influential along the way in order to make it' in the way that you have.

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Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Persuasion
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A well-used accounting journal, an inkwell and quill, a wax stamp, 5 candles, a set of fine clothes, and a hefty purse containing 25 gp.
 
Feature: Business Prospector

As a wealthy financier, your name carries weight in the business world and you have little trouble finding or making connections. Even in a new place, you are able to find your way into affluent circles. If there's legitimate money to be made, you learn of the opportunity within a day spent investigating an area.

 
Suggested Characteristics

Financiers are shaped by their past business deals and current business affairs. Their dealings with others and their ultimate goals inform their mannerisms and ideals. Their flaw might be the result of unchecked greed or other worldly vices, or it could be the result of souring relationships and self-isolation.

d8 Personality Trait
1 First impressions are of utmost importance; I greet everyone with a big grin and a firm handshake
2 I see myself as a leader and an innovator; my work brings dreams to life
3 I am an avid note taker. My scrawlings can be found across my many possessions.
4 I offer my perspective in most situations, often failing to realize when it is unwelcome.
5 I make it a point to be the best dressed person in the room at all times,
6 I always look to the future, as dwelling on past successes and failures is stifling.
7 Opportunities for wealth can be found at every corner, and I intend to sieze them.
8 My time acquiring wealth has made me eccentric to the common folk.
d6 Ideal
1 Progress. The world has come a long way and has a long way to go yet. We must work towards a bigger and better future (Good)
2 Humility. Those who know me know that my fortune isn't everything. I'm very concerned with keeping a level head and I spend frequent time around the poor and hard-working (Good)
3 Pleasure. Life is best lived well, and I will always in courage a lavish and laid-back lifestyle. (Neutral)
4 Greed. It's every man for himself, and I intend to take whatever I can (Evil)
5 Opportunity. Everyone should have the ability to forge their own path, given enough grit. (Chaotic)
6 Contracts. Commerce will consume all those who partake in it if there are no contracts to regulate. I believe that every walk of life could benefit from such obligations. (Lawful)
d1 Bond
1 I owe a great deal to my family, who have done everything in their power to support my endeavors.
 
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