Thomspikay Mud

**Tomspikay Mud** is a member of the Historical group after 380 years of his death, living right now on the Pentagram City.

He is an six-eyes greyish-black spikeweed mud-like demon who died in 1641.

## Background

### Personality

Tomspikay once has quite a strong personality and belief, pouring his experience, has his prominent role during the economic depression which began in 1620.

After his death 380 years later, he remained smart like his origin but became so harsh and quite calm but within the anger temper. Mainly care for the money and thus planned to write something for the need of new details such as today's technology.

### Physical appearance

Tomspikay Mud was a large greyish-black spikeweeding mud demon with six greyish-grey bluish snake-like eyes, with mixed of small and oversized spikes on his head.

## History

### Human life and death

When he was alive, Tomspikay's real name was Thomas Mun in June 17, 1571. He was the third child of the substantial London family based in the vicinity of St. Andrew Hubbard, where he was baptized from.

His father, John Mun, and his stepfather both earned their livings as mercers. His grandfather was provost of moneyers in the Royal Mint of England. Through his family ties it can be assumed that Thomas gained insight into matters pertaining to currency and to the economy as the whole. At the age of 41, Thomas married Ursula Malcott and together has blessed with three children, John, Ann and Mary. They chose the parish as their home.

Nothing quite known about his education, but as his own career was a merchant startled around 1596 where he was a member of the Mercers company, engaging in the Mediterranean trade, especially with Italy and the Middle East.

He became successful as a pracisting merchant, able to amass a large fortune. In 1615, due to his prosperity, he was elected as the director of the East India Company, and in 1622 was appointed as a member of the standing commission on trade. The rest of his professional career was spent advocating for and promoting the East India Company's interests.

In conjunction with the British Crown, The East India Company was a trading business established to colonies new lands and to pursue trade with the East Indies.

In 1615, Thomas was elected as the director of the company, setting out to ensure that it was operating at full capacity. To achieve this meant that wealth would be maximized and exports would be increased. In 1620, during the onset of the depression, his role within the economy was greatly enhanced. He was forced to not only defend the East India Company and its practices, but also aid the government in correcting the economy.

The trade crisis that eventually led to the depression stemmed from the separate events. First, through the company, England was importing from India at a much higher rate than it was exporting. This negative balance of trade, or trade deficit, meant England was sending out more money than it was bringing in, a clear detriment to the economy according to the principles of mercantilism. Second, to pay for all of their imports, England sent precious metals to India. As the only real determinant of affluence in the 1600s, due to the fact that paper money was not yet in use in Northern Europe, exporting precious metals was generally unheard of.

For the East India Company, however, the exportation restrictions on bullion were reduced. Due to this stipulation, the exchange of silver for luxuries brought a lot of negative attention to the company, citizens believed that it was a large factor in the economic downturn. Thomas was thus put forward as a representative of the enterprise. His task was to clear the name of his company while also convincing his clients, and the general public that the actions taken were ultimately for the best. He conveyed his views through his first published book, *A Discourse of Trade from England Unto the East Indies*.

During his time, foreign trade was the best way to increase the wealth of a nation. More specifically, this was necessary for exports to exceed imports. All other corrective economic policies were secondary. As Thomas said in his book, saying that they must sell more to strangers yearly than we consume of theirs in value. To achieve this positive balance of trade, Thomas laid out a list of criteria which he urged England to follow, importing goods that can be produced domestically should be banned, reducing luxurious and export duties for the making English has a taste, producing foreign markets. If no alternatives were available to its neighbors, England would charge more money for its exports, cultivate wasteland for higher production to reduce the amount of imports needed from abroad, shipping boards will be completed solely on the vessels of English. But as it all done, Thomas ended up greedy through some time of money and doing it much too harshly to do it for his own sake.

Because of his harshness and unable to do it right, however, some of his fellow clients were able to do it. Unfortunately he died on July 21, 1641 from Natural causes.

## Abilities

Since he was a successful pracisting merchant, he was able to do it right with his skills and as well writing, just for his discovery by finding any new details.

### Demon transformation and Spiky ability

Much like other demons, he possessed to form himself into a full demon form by becoming much larger with fusing of large poisonous spikes that would shoot out.

### Writing skill

Since he was a merchant, he has amazing skills of writing down, Thomspikay only does this or sometimes if he finds it interesting or a new detail.

### Mercantilist skill

He was greatly known for having surprising amazing skills, he gives out of trades and well as gaining a lot of money.

## Trivia

* Thomspikay was based off of a real person that did died in 1641, **Thomas Mun**.
* So far about other demons in Hell, he was the only member of the group to be short.