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9+ Greed Points: Same as earlier, but the check applies to all material wealth. For this check, consuming food counts as getting rid of it. | 9+ Greed Points: Same as earlier, but the check applies to all material wealth. For this check, consuming food counts as getting rid of it. | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
In ancient times, there was a wealthy gnome merchant so greedy he would not give the dirt off his boots for less than three coppers. One night, his grand trade caravan travelled through the depths of the High Forest in search of new ways to exploit their surroundings for coin, when they came upon a dirty old elf, thin and frail like a fallen leaf. | In ancient times, there was a wealthy gnome merchant so greedy he would not give the dirt off his boots for less than three coppers. One night, his grand trade caravan travelled through the depths of the High Forest in search of new ways to exploit their surroundings for coin, when they came upon a dirty old elf, thin and frail like a fallen leaf. | ||
The poor beggar owned naught but a single gold coin which he sought to trade for food. The merchant however, realized that he held all the cards in bargaining with a starving man and haggled and demeaned until the elf had traded the coin for but half a loaf of moldy bread. Days thereafter, the merchant's greed became maddeningly grand, his avarice growing with each passing moment. Soon he was so greedy he could not even part with a single mote of dust, starving to death as consuming food would mean it would no longer be in his possession. | |||
The poor beggar owned naught but a single gold coin which he sought to trade for food. The merchant however, realized that he held all the cards in bargaining with a starving man and haggled and demeaned until the elf had traded the coin for but half a loaf of moldy bread. Days thereafter, the merchant's greed became maddeningly grand, his avarice growing with each passing moment. Soon he was so greedy he could not even part with a single mote of dust, starving to death as consuming food would mean it would no longer be in his possession. | |||
The beggar had been Garl Glittergold, the god of gnomes and trickery, in disguise, who had long watched the merchant with contempt, and had now traded him a cursed coin. The more unfair the deal which grants you the coin, the worse its retaliation will be, amplifying the owner's greed many times over. | The beggar had been Garl Glittergold, the god of gnomes and trickery, in disguise, who had long watched the merchant with contempt, and had now traded him a cursed coin. The more unfair the deal which grants you the coin, the worse its retaliation will be, amplifying the owner's greed many times over. | ||