Mr. Trenero

*"It's hard to only do good though. We need to make sacrifices to make the world a better place."* Kali Event 29

Mr. Trenero is an immensely powerful human who heads a major tech company.

### **Characterization and Biography**

Mr. Trenero is the founder and current CEO of Nero Incorporated, one of the biggest corporations around to the degree that he claims his company's tech can be found in almost all electronics on the market. His father paved the path for their family's wealth boom by kickstarting involvement in commercial solar panels, whereas Trenero himself started out building hardware in his garage, being mainly good at building motherboards. He tinkered with androids and computer hardware in college, making battle bots for fun. Additionally, he really shined in business, investing profits back into the business or buying another. Around the time of his daughters' births, he founded Nero Inc - before this, he was in real estate. Currently, his focus is buying out other companies in Syl'anar and The Capitol. He also loans developing nations money, including Moon's.

Trenero owns at least 4 houses in Syl'anar (one party house, one modern house, and one each in central and eastern Syl'anar), at least 8 houses in The Capitol (three when Kali was last living there), and at least 3 houses on other continents. He rents these houses out when not in use, including having the moral conscience to allow a homeless family to stay in an apartment for 8 months free of cost. On the opposite end of things, he has made some morally questionable choices, such as expanding a silicon mining company so fast that it cleared out the mines in a few years, wiping out half the town's jobs. As we see in Kali's story, his elfbot project had him replace 697 Nero Inc workers with elves, a few more (than the initial three fatalities) dying due to faulty bloodletting machines. This appears to be his primary through line - he has moral values and goals, but lacks the foresight and planning to handle all the factors at play that will have major ramifications. Kali often criticizes him for this.

Trenero owns a separate space company called Nero Space, and has passingly bragged about one day owning a planet. In fact, he is currently building a rocket to colonize the desert planet of Sarn with the government. It is the closest nearby planet, between ours and the sun (equivalent of real world Mercury). A few habitats have already been finished, with plans for more, and tourism is planned once setup is complete in a few years. The Syl'anar government refused the use of elves in this endeavour, their reasoning being that they don't want elves becoming multi-planetary.

When we first meet Mr. Trenero, he immediately takes a business interest in offering to renovate our hotel to have a casino and bar on the first floor, luxury penthouses, toilets made of gold, and a huge "Nero" sign on the entrance, with floors up to the clouds. He also wants to turn it into a franchise, noting that one person can only manage three to five hotels. In exchange, he wants 90% of the profits for doing so, claiming that when split amongst shareholders and the like, his take would only be 11%.

Miscellaneous: Trenero is the current mayor of The Capitol, and throughout his life has never paid taxes. Vanessa likens him to a dragon, hoarding his wealth.

### **Relationships**

Trenero's first wife was a waitress, who kept working as such after their children were born. After she passed away, due to how busy he was he had androids care for Kali and Lucy.

As for his daughters, he initially spoiled them both rotten, giving them whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted it. He withdrew this for the most part from Kali, noticing her talent for programming, and eventually sent her all the way to Syl'anar with almost no money, intending her to get a true grounded experience of the world, which would aid her as he groomed her to take over his company one day.

Lucia on the other hand, he continued to spoil. While she remained disconnected from a lot of normal life, and never worked a single job as a result, she did delve heavily into the social sphere, attending countless parties and fostering a close relationship with all of her father's business partners.

He recently remarried to Mariella, a cousin of Cornwall who was "gifted" to him and he subsequently freed from slavery.