Thread: Interest Check: Fantasy/Political thriller

As you wish Miss Strawberry Lord Martinez - RaceNationality Human, Anstaria Age 37 Profession Merchant Lord Status Noveau Rich, self made noble Physical Description Lord Jaren Alaan Martinez stands at 5'2, and a slight 90 lbs, leaving him frail and small compared to many other nobles, particularly those of warrior descents which has given him quite a complex. This view as weak, and slightly effeminate by those of a more masculine background is only furthered by the Lord's desire to make himself what he considers presentable. His brown hair is often elaborately styled to whatever is the current fashion within Court, his skin kept pale and smooth by his time indoors and peculiar regimens to maintain his youth. Jaren typically wears fine clothing when out on deligations, at court, or at home. Typically he prefers darker colors, reds, purples, blues, greens, and usually gold or black trim and embroidery. He seldom wears the same thing twice, not wanting to fuel rumors that his clan has fallen upon hard times. Jewelry almost always accompanies his outfits, in particular he usually wears a Clan Ring, a signet of his merchant clan used to seal missives, and a simple bronze ring, without engraving or setting on his right middle finger. History Lord Jaren Alaan Martinez hails from the Martinez Merchant Clan. His clan has been the owners and laborers of a small mining operation for several decades, pulling low grade, common ores out of the ground. This ended with Jaren's parents. His generation found a new vien of high quality ores, and Jaren's parents created a new method to mine out this previously unreachable bit, bringing the Martinez clan greater wealth. A meritocracy at its heart, the Clan rewarded their inventiveness by making them the defacto rulers of the people, the mine, and thier new wealth. His parents were simpler folk than him, growing up in the mines. They used their wealth and influence to buy up other claims nearby, both rich and poor, trying to consolidate a grip on the area's production. Jaren was very different. He grew up in the sunlight, on trips with his parents to broker deals with merchants and other mining clans. He grew up surrounded by deeds, words, ink and quills. He was one of the most learned in his clan, one of the first truly literate to come out of the lot. He excelled at maths, literature, and sciences, always asking questions and seeking out answers to questions that people around him hardly ever thought to ask of. He grew up slight, so different from the large, burly, broken miners of his clan that he was often teased and bullied as a child. He learned to deal with it in time, finding out that for but a bit of the wealth he had at his disposal he could usually hire the largest, toughest kid to keep those who would mess with him away from him. He realized anything could be bought, men, women, land, metal, even rank and privledge. As a teenager he took over for his parents. He was more predatory than they were, not content just to buy up a few more mining claims or contact a few more metal merchants. He invested in many different things, artisans and craftmen, merchant caravans of his own to far away locales, buying up land for everything from agriculture to elaborate villas. He even used his wealth and connections to quite literally buy a title of nobility from the kingdom, with the rights and privledges it came with in return for several legions being supplied by his clan. His ambitions are much greater though. He has raised his own group, sellswords and scum willing to act as his own honor guard at court and on expeditions. He dreams of one day attaining the crown himself, though he would never plot assassination or open rebellion. Deal making, bribes, trade, these are his tools. Never has the Lord Martinez been known to consort with the darker sides of life as a noble. Or at least, he's never been caught.