Thomas Aberrich

* Post-Time Skip
* Pre-Time Skip

A main character with a roguish nature.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

As a 12 year old young man, Thomas is short and skinny. He has light brown hair that comes down to mid ear and has a penchant to style it with fats and oils. His has a medium skin tone complexion and blue eyes.

While he spends much of his time outside, he is always clean and his clothes are always a little too fancy for the situation.

### **Personality**

Thomas, above all else, is an entrepreneur, a sales man, and an optimist. His passion is turning 1 copper into 2. As a youth he has an unfounded believe that all rich nobles live the perfect life. The superficial image of life that nobles share publicly, affects Thomas even as an adult, causing him to believe that money indeed does buy happiness. Some may call him lazy, but he prefers the term thoughtful. He has no problem jumping in and doing work, but he finds digging a ditch, when he could instead hire a crew to do it, uncreative.

He is extremely outgoing and confident. He loves to ask questions and does not know when he has asked one too many. He is not loud, but he is high energy and very persistent. He loves to charm others, especially young ladies and grandmothers. He loves the arts, especially plays and novels. As a young child he aspired to be an actor, but found that he loved acting in real life even more. He knows what is in fashion and what is not. He loves to dress up for any occasion, even if it may be to sell honey cakes on the street. He is much more at home on city streets than in the wilderness. While some adventurers yearn to explore the wild, Thomas would rather explore a new city or town. He loves hearing news and gossip - and using those bits of information to make himself a coin. While not much scares Thomas, the thought of a dark forest does.

When his ideas are successful, he will let everyone know. When his ideas are not, he is quick to tell you what went wrong and why it would have worked if not for "unforeseen circumstances". Internally, he takes every failure as a learning experience, and rarely is frustrated by spoiled plans. Thomas does not anger easily unless someone is threatening one of his friends. When aggravated he was quick to spew verbal barbs when he was younger, but has learned that a soft touch is sometimes better than winning an insult battle.

One of Thomas's pet peeves and what does cause him a bit of consternation is simply being dirty. He always has a clean rag or two with him at all times to wipe his hands or his face. He is mindful of wiping off his shoes before entering buildings or taking them off when entering a home.

While the older Thomas loves a good drink, he loves getting others drunk even more. His taste for alcohol is what he would call refined, and what others may call pretentious. He states he would rather have water than common mead, ale, or wine, but he'll make due in a pinch - especially for a job. He prefers small plated rare delicacies and exotic flavors, but still has a soft spot for the pastries he sold as a child.

Older Thomas may be described as a gentleman, a flirt, a scoundrel, or snake-oil salesman - depending who you talk to.

## **Background**

Thomas was born to Filo and Jonnaleah Aberrich in Salt Landing. Thomas has two younger sisters, Fiona and Mara. Thomas's mother passed away during Mara's birth when Thomas was 4 years old. Thomas's father is the town's tax collector and has been since before Thomas's birth.

The Aberrich family's status is town is in an awkward position due to Filo's employment. They accepted superficially by nobility with kind words and invitation but its purely perfunctory and out of deference to the Patrician and Rector. They are not popular with the poor community and they are seen as over-privileged by other middle class and government-working families.

Thomas doesn't know much about his mother or father's family. Both are not natively from Salt Landing and Filo never thought it important to bring up with his children. Fiona would bring the topic up whenever Filo may be in a good mood, but Filo would wave it off as irrelevant.

## **Childhood**

After Thomas's mother passed, his father became less familial to the children, and more business centric. While he taught them to read, write, and about the finer aspects of numbers and accounting- he was in other ways cold. His aim was for each of his children to reach a high social standing. Filo found a pseudo-mother for the children, Elfia Copperstone, a bar matron, soon after Jonnaleah's death. Filo and Elfia remained together for the past 8 years, but neither appears interested in remarrying. Thomas's relationship with Elfia is cordial, she believing him to be a rapscallion and he thinking her a bore, but she has shown him more affection than his father ever has.

Filo began bringing Thomas to work with him at a young age. It began as a lesson in work ethic, but soon Filo found that often times people would give him less grief when there was a child present. He later found that having a young assistant was helpful in tracking down those trying to dodge his collection efforts. Filo found use for Thomas in all types of schemes to locate and catch those trying to defraud the government's tax. When Thomas was ten years old, Filo began taking Thomas to noble parties and gatherings to which Filo had received an obligatory invitation. It was at these parties that Thomas began his friendship with Marallis "Lissie" Ophiuc. They were both outcasts, although of different types and were drawn to each other's company.

With the money the Thomas made working for his father, he began to strike out on his own.

## **Faith**

Thomas is the sort of person who is only religious when its convenient for him. If he is down on his luck he'll pray to Nessad. If he needs a job to go right he will make a plea to Ivras. Whether he truly believes is up for debate, but he certainly has no problem taking the gods names in vain.

## **Relationships**

**Esmerelda:** An acquaintance of Thomas, he has seen her many times on his trips out to Esmerelda's family's caravan. He has made small talk with her but she is often distant and fleeting when they speak. However, she never tires of Thomas's questions about her people, nor is any topic too sensitive.

**Lissie:** One of Thomas's best friends. Thomas tries to rope Lissie into all sorts of business plans and misadventures. In return she tests her many potions and alchemical recipes on him.

**Piper:** Thomas is extremely wary of Piper, as there have been plenty of times in his youth that Piper has lifted Thomas of his wares. Pre-timeskip Thomas avoids Piper as much as possible and is guarded as to what sort of goods he has on himself. (I imagine Post-timeskip that Thomas treats Piper like Natasha Romanov does when she tries to calm down The Hulk).

**Rhea:** An acquaintance of Thomas, he is more familiar with her brothers Gale and Piper. He knows Rhea to be quiet and kind, apologize for her brother's mistreatment of him. He knows she has many siblings she looks after, so he never asks for repayment of items Piper relieved him of. He is very curious about her unique appearance.

**Caelestus:** A friend of Thomas's by circumstance more than similar interests. Cael finds his way into places and hears bits of information that Thomas uses for monetary purposes. Thomas usually gets this information for free as Cael is already rich. Thomas assumes Cael just likes the thrill. They don't speak much except for business purposes. Thomas is not so secretly jealous of Cale and his noble standing.

## Contacts

Hibberick - previous employer

Rupert - mentor from the Vyckeros Seekers Academy

Yarris - carriage driver