Merchant Family

Category: Background

Description

Your family runs a trading business — perhaps magical goods, alchemical supplies, or mundane imports. You understand commerce, negotiation, and the flow of money better than anyone in your year. While other students worry about textbooks, you've already arranged bulk discounts on reagents for the entire dormitory floor.

Starting Bonus

Begin with double starting funds and a personal stipend. You never lack for basic supplies, quality equipment, or small luxuries.

Connection

Trade Contacts. Your family's business network stretches across the region. Once per session, you can source a specific item, ingredient, or piece of information through trade connections. Rare and restricted items require a Charm roll.

Roleplay Hooks

• A family rival is trying to poach your father's best suppliers. You've been asked to help — discreetly.
• You've discovered that a popular Academy supplier is selling counterfeit reagents. This could be profitable... or principled.
• Other students treat you as their personal procurement service. You don't mind — favours are currency.

"Father says knowledge is the only commodity that increases in value when you share it. He's lying — he says that about everything."