[hider=Guildsman, The Trader of Coin] [i]The Guise of the Tradesman[/i] [center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/564x/71/7b/cd/717bcd69983150c9cc8f8feb48acf23a.jpg[/img][/center] [i]The Guise of the Merchant[/i] [center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/564x/38/c2/be/38c2beed67c0803bd8c476ddc9eadca0.jpg[/img][/center] [i]The Guise of the Gambler[/i] [center][img] https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/leagueoflegends/images/5/5e/Tahm_Kench_OriginalCentered.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1215?cb=20180414203621[/img][/center] [b]Name[/b]: [center][color=gold][h3]Guildsman "The Trader of Coin" "The Golden Mask" "The Merchant Lord" "Counter of Greed" "Boss of the Gilded Pit"[/h3][/color][/center] [b]Gender:[/b] Male [b]Major Domains:[/b] Trade, Connection [b]Minor Domains:[/b] Bureaucracy, Order, Vice, Crime, Greed, Languages, Journey, Craftsmen, Commerce, Earth, Water [b]Opposing Domains:[/b] Death, Chaos, Nature [b]Appearance:[/b] [i]The Guise of the Trademan[/i] A wanderer made of copper, swathed in golden threaded robes, and wearing the mask of a million faces. He can unfurl his robe and show anything from the Vault, and it always contains what the buyer truly desires and needs, often times before she even knows it. The price depends upon the good or service. Often times, thieves believe they can rob wanderer. He doesnt make a fuss, and usually gives over his robe. When the thief reaches into one of the many pockets, they find that they cannot pull their hand back out. They can only trap themselves in further. Their hand, their arm, belongs to the trader, and they'll have to pay to get it back out. One must wonder what the price of their own hand might be. The tradesman embodies the journeys that commerce must travel and the work that must be put in to provide goods for profit. It is this guise that his worshippers pray to for wealth or desires, as often to get them, something must be paid, even if its just precious few seconds of a mortal's life and the consequences to be paid later. [i]The Guise of the Merchant[/i] A man, old, worldly shrewd but powerful, sits at the negotiation table. He is so rich, so proudly dressed that he is akin to a king and acts as such. He will offer refreshments and pleasantries until all parties are ready to get down to buisness. As always he negotiates and brokers the deals, acting as advisor, diplomat, and swindler. This guise deals in the aspects of commerce, the production of goods, the acquisition of wealth, and the social connections that people engage in. It is this guise that his worshipers pray to when bartering, calling upon his name to honor the agreement between all parties. It's said that those who break their agreements suffer ruin. [i]The Guise of the Gambler[/i] Despite spitting up his greed, it left a hole in his stomach that demanded to be filled, and so greed came back, greed for money, greed for joys, greed for experiences, for thrills, for chills, for vice! The Gambler resembles a bloated anthromorphic frog monster that frequents the casinos, drug dens, and pleasure palaces of the world. Mortals do not recognize him as such, seeing a fat rich man that brings only envy and disgust to onlookers but the frog commands the room, demanding all of the petty pleasures they have to offer. This guise deals with the power and corruption that money and power can bring. It's indulgence and self agrandizing pleasure made manifest. He is the patron of gamblers and criminals, those that want to get rich without work or skill, and often times at others suffering and expense. [b]Core Appearance:[/b] [hider=One Coin Among Billions] [center][img]http://www.ancientresource.com/images/greek/greek_coins/ptolemaic/ptolemaic-coin-ce2068.jpg[/img][/center] [/hider] [b]Personality:[/b] Likes: Innovation, Risk, Vice, Industry, Travel, Law, Patterns, Efficiency, Intrigues, Politics, Luxuries, Perseverance, People, Discussions and Debates, Frogs, Banks, Casinos, The Color Yellow Dislikes: The Dead, Charity, Disasters, Chaos, Barbarism, Resources Untapped, Thieves, Mosquitoes [b]Relationships:[/b] Coming soon [b]Allegiances:[/b] The Guildsman requires systems be put in place and thus stands for order. Everything in their proper place and the wheels of progress and industry always continuing to move forward. As for becoming king of the gods, it is not something he actively is seeking for himself having a set place in the pantheon. He's aware of the battle for the throne, and is willing to support whomever offers him the best case, but he will make sure that whoever is chosen as king is deeply and hopelessly, indebted to him. [b]Domain:[/b] [hider=The Vault] [center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/564x/7b/99/5d/7b995d2472d1ce8f2dd67846cf2d4db2.jpg[/img][/center] The door remains open, unlocked, unguarded, welcoming those in with the treasures both material and esoteric. From the door way, it appears that the vault is without end, a world of gold, jewels, and palaces, with air of dreams and perfumes, and waters of impossibly addicting wine and spirits and liquid love. Take one more step though, and you will never leave. Not without making a deal. To enter The Vault is to become part of it. And to be The Vault means you are owned by Guildsman, another good to be bartered with. [/hider] [b]Peoples:[/b] Merchants [b]Avatar and Anathema: [/b] [hider=Avatar: Enki, She that Hungers] [center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/53/f6/e1/53f6e16a2269a581b07dae41afa9af12.jpg[/img][/center] [b]Enki, She that Hungers[/b] Is the personification of the Guildsman Greed. Once he wanted it all, claiming entire worlds as part of his goods, when the other gods came to him for an intervention. Losing himself to vice, he gathered all of his desire into his stomach. It was so much that the god vomited a toad. The toad began to eat, and eat, and eat. Growing bigger and bigger and there seems no end. Enki's size is tided to the economies of the worlds Guildsman oversees. When it thrives, she can be the size of continents and moons. When it wanes, she will waste away, shrinking in size, but becoming far more dangerous as her appetite sends her into unstoppable rages. Her stomach leads directly to the Vault, and she has swallowed deities before. [/hider] [hider=Anathema: Little Brown Book] [center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7c/ba/77/7cba77f9031065a440a8adc3e70923ea.jpg[/img][/center] [b]Guildsman's Ledger[/b] Guildsman has meticulous kept track of every transaction. Ever. And he pays particular attention to the favors he owes, and what gods owe him. In fact, whenever he or anything within his domain does anything that benefits another god, he adds it to his book, and so over the millenia, he has amassed countless favors on his fellow divinities and most do not even know it. When one god actively opposes him, threatening his life, he opens his little book and calls in their debts. Woe be to those who welsh on their debts to the god of trade. They might try to strike him down, but in doing so, cut swaths away of their own domain as payment in doing so until they are left penniless and without prayer, then power is paid, then memories. Yes, they may strike down Guildsman, but their victory would be a hollow one, as they turn and realize they are now the god of nothing. And what kind of god is that really? [/hider] [b]Misc:[/b] The Guildsman has been described as generally cordial, if a little cold and calculating. He's also very helpful, but its not for his generous nature. [/hider]