Gaspard da Shiishuginsa

== Background ==
Some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Some people are born with an entire silver cutlery drawer born in their (presumably wide) mouths. Gaspard and his family look down on both groups as peasants.
Not the brightest, but with an education that only excessive amounts of money can buy, Gaspard went to university. Studying Vilani, taking pride in his rich heritage, he graduated with honours.
Young and bright eyed, Gaspard rode the success of his education straight into a career as an intelligence officer. The life of a secret agent was intense; so intense he was brutally beaten within an inch of his life by a rival agent. Leaving the agency with a bruised ego, and a significant amount of metal plates under his skin, Gaspard bowed out of the life of secrecy and subterfuge. At least the active, front line version.
But despite stepping off the front lines, Gaspard decided he had a gift for manipulating people. And a gift of a very, very wealthy family. Riding on his family name was whirlwind of intrigue and petty politics. Initially he was simply living the high life; although it wasn’t long before a particular relative became incensed by his debauchery.
Gaspard continued to ride the family name, and began dabbling in small scale politics, earning himself a good friend (for a while) and the support he needed to become even more widely known in the socialite world.
Pitting the aristocracy against one another has its down falls though. A rival noble, furious with Gaspard and his meddling, challenged him to a very public duel. Gaspard knew what he must do, and picked up the family rapier from the mantelpiece.
He declined the duel. Not one for violence, Gaspard ended up losing some of his social clout; although he had plenty to lose, and he picked up some tricks of surviving the dangerous game along the way.
When you spend so many years playing the most dangerous game, you win some and you lose some. Eventually the ally Gaspard had made early in his life turned on him. A public spat that added another name to the list of people out to ‘get’ him; but the feud continued to see Gaspard’s name land on the lips of more and more people.
One of those lips ended up being that of a fellow nobles wife. A glutton for making enemies throughout his life, Gaspard added another notch to his bedpost and yet another name that would hold a grudge against the great Gaspard da Shiishuginsa.
It was maybe a decade or so after the torrid affair that Gaspard decided to travel the stars. Maybe to avoid those that were pursuing his death, maybe just trying to see if he still had another adventure in him; but in his 60s he cashed in the many favours he had across the aristocracy and managed to raise enough support to get himself safari yacht with over half of it paid off.
Family rapier on his hip, and enough cash to survive maybe two months of crippling mortgage payments, it was time to see how Gaspard’s life would truly end.
== Contacts ==
=== Enemies ===
# Rival agent who beat me almost to death during my career as a spy.
# Jealous family member, furious I have been wasting the family fortune.
# Rival noble who challenged me to a duel, and I declined it.
# Previously an ally, who turned on me late in my life (I was in my 40s, it was around 12 years of friendship, which is rough).
=== Rivals ===
# The jilted ex lover of one of my noble friends.
=== Neutral ===
# Mag of Trichach, gambling buddy