Balthazar Oro

> Wealth, prosperity, luxury, these are just words, noises on the wind. What we need, what the world needs, is the vison to seize upon the innovation now presented to us, to forge those concepts into a reality. To remake the world in our own image.
>
> Balthazar Oro to a group of Janus-Caishen shareholders

## History

### Early Life

Oro was born on January 10, 1926 in Getzi City's working class Kata District. The only son to Bartholomew and Margery Oro, who operated a small struggling general store, Balthazar grew up in Getzi City until at age 8 bankruptcy brought about by competition from a nearby Janusmart forced the family to relocate to the countryside as sharecroppers. Balthazar was quickly put to work on the farm, and grew to hate life in the countryside. The exact details of Balthazar's relationship with his parents is largely unknown, including any potential abuse, but what is know is that he repeatedly attempted to run away from home, finally succeeding at age 12. Relocating back to Getzi City, Bathazar gained employment as a shop assistant at a Janusmart.

### Early Career

By the age of 15 Balthazar relocated to Tamalouse in Colonial Bakia with his small saving from his job at Janusmart. Oro developed a soap using cheap animal fat byproducts and chemical excess from the colonial Bakian farms. His 'Oro-clean' soap had moderate success in Getzi markets as a low cost by effective cleaning product. By age 20 Balthazar had turned Oro-clean into successful brand, operated out of a headquarters in New Edas City. However, facing increasingly stiff competition, he decided to sell Oro-clean to the newly merged Janus-Caishen Corporation, forgoing offered compensation in exchange for a management position within the company's corporate affairs division.

### Career at Janus-Caishen

Balthazar quickly utilized his position within the company, as well as his natural charisma, to ingratiate himself with many of the companies senior shareholders and rise through the ranks. By age 31 in 1957, Balthazar was appointed Senior Vice-President of Operations, having cemented a close friendship with the aging CEO Cato Janus. Although seen as a rising star within the company many were still seen as more obvious successors for company leadership, including Cato's eldest son Felix. This changed when on the way to a company retreat, Felix and many of the company's senior executives died in a tragic plane accident caused by mechanical failure. Cato died soon after of heart failure. Leveraging his influence among the shareholders, Balthazar was chosen as interm CEO, eventually cementing his leadership as permanent. Balthazar Oro is the first non-Janus or Caishen family member to lead the merged corporation, and has expanded its operations and profitability dramatically, becoming an international corporation, and the most powerful company within Getzi and likely the world.

### Personal Life

Not many details are known about Baltazar Oro's personal life, though he has reportedly remained unmarried. Reports that he purchased his parents farmland, and then several other places of employment they attempted to work to ensure they remained unemployed are unconfirmed. His father reportedly died in 1963 as a result of untreated tuberculous due to a lack of employment provided healthcare.