Villagers

Name: Gill Jade
Gender: Male
Race: Sectoid
Skill: Mercantile
Flaw/Fear/Negative: Lack of Compassion
Simply stated, Gill Jade is NOT a nice guy. He does not care if you need a tool to save your crops and you can't pay for it. This guy will eat a roast ham in front of an orphanage and not give a slice without a price. And if you want him to have your goods shipped and sold outside of town? Expect a severe cut from what you could have sold it for if you went yourself. Money for the wallet god.

Backstory:
Gill Jade is a wandering merchant that used to go about his trade going from town to town pawning what he could from his caravan. He would often use his skills to pressure suppliers below their profit margins to supplement his own, a tactic that was not widely admired. Needless to say he's in a bit of trouble with a particularly feisty tradesman mafia and has thought it best to settle and make a shop. In the middle of nowhere. Where noone can find him.

How did this come to be you ask? It would have to draw from his particularly troubling childhood. At the ripe age of just an egg, he was quickly tossed out of his parent's abode in hopes that he would keel over and be done with. Lucky for him he was picked up by an orphanage that kept him alive to his first few growth stages. Unfortunately, he was adopted by a wandering Sectoid salesman that took the child in as a source of free labor. He was named Gill Jade, because he was expected to save the man a lot of cash in the longrun.

Needless to say it wasn't a very pleasant childhood, but Gill survived it. He embraced it. from the sidelines he learned all of his adoptive father's tricks and tactics, slowly building a knowledge of hard negotiation and haggling. By the time he reached his adult stage, Gill Jade was just as good a merchant as his parent, if not better. All the while, his hatred for the man and his cruelty (towards him) grew by the day.

The one thing Gill Jade had that his adopted father didn't was a lack of compassion, and a small gap in his morality gained from his environment. He eventually *inherited* the family business through organizing a framing his father for stealing a shipment of royal jewels to barter off. The profits from the items were used to pay off the real thief, whom he then helped the guard capture and kill so he could sieze the profits for himself (with a small tip to the guard captain to overlook the conspirator's belongings). The royals would sieze everything his father owned, but with all the money from the heist Gill was able to buy it all back, and then some.

The rest of his merchanting career followed suit with this trail of cruelty and hardball, borderline legal sales. The current fiasco with the tradesman mafia isn't the first of its kind, and it probably wont be the last. At the very least, setting up a trading post on the new frontier should bring in some profit while he waits it out. And who knows? If the town becomes successful, Gill Jade could find HIMSELF as the head of the local tradesman association! Only time will tell.