Mars from Volantis

Mars from Volantis is a merchant who deals in anything he can. The only loyalty he holds is to coin and he finds that many people, despite them saying otherwise, are the same. His only friendships are with his lover Visella and the new Kingsguard Corlys Velaryon.

## Appearance and Character:

Mars is a handsome man with angular features. It is evident that he focuses on his appearance due to the styling of his beard and hair. Most often he wears dark robes that accentuate his facial features.

Mars is an eccentric character. The epicenter of his character revolves around money and luxury, he is, after all, a businessman at heart. His character is distinctly Volantine and disagrees that the peasants of Westeros are free. If it were up to him they would be enslaved. Though he keeps these opinions to himself.

Whenever he speaks he has a Volantine accent.

## History:

Mars was born to a wealthy merchant family in 102 AC on the Westerosi calendar. His early life was spent sitting in on the business that his father had. This continued for quite some time until he had begun to help his father in those meetings. Mars, out of all of his siblings, was the sharpest in a business sense and could easily make more of a profit than them.

At the age of 20, their family was so rich they started to run as elephants in the Volantine political sphere. However, their greed turned out to be their downfall. Most of Mars' family was assassinated due to political rivals not wanting them to join the party. Mars escaped the assassins with his lover Visella. Liquidating the assets he traveled to Westeros with some merchandise and a Mule and Cart.

Mars was a fast learner and picked up the language relatively quickly although his accent has never gone away and is still very prominent when he speaks.

Mars, using his business sense, began to work in all sorts of fields. He bounced around Westeros Working as a Tavern owner in White Harbor, he owned a Trading Galley that was sunk off the coast of the step stones, he owned a flower store for a year in Oldtown which was burned, and he even traded in the Shadow city in Sunspear until he eventually became a traveling Merchant in 127 AC. This put him in contact with the newly knighted Corlys Velaryon. Over the next three years, he hired Corlys on many jobs finding the knight to be an amicable working partner. All the knight asked for was enough coin to do a bit of drinking in the tavern. In addition, the Velaryon kept thieves away and when he couldn't he kept those thieves dead. Visella also liked Corlys and frequently kept him company in bed. Of course, this was no issue for Mars as he was already whoring himself through his profits.

Fate seemed to bring the three together once again as Mars is starting a new business in King's Landing known (Mason's Workshop) as the Zaldrizes Stone (Dragon in Volantine is Zaldrizes). Mars heard that his longtime coworker Corlys had recently become Kingsguard. Perhaps a lucrative business deal was to come of this down the line.

## Meta:

Auxiliary Character Name: Mars from Volantis

Starting Title(s): Volantine Merchant

Age: 28

Starting Location: King’s landing

Attribute: Diligent

Skill Points: 14

Skills: Finances (EDU), Commerce (STA), Linguistics (EDU Technically this would be Volantine but I would flavor it as Westerosi)