Manifico de Medici

Description
Manifico de Medici is a high-ranking member of the Merchant Guild, the eldest son of Cosimo de Medici and the managing director of the Merchant Guild Second Bank in Mirthala. Like his father, he is a man with a great lust for money and with the keen mind and skills to amass the fortune he so desires. Unlike his father, however, Manifico is much more cordial and sociable, and less strict in his business dealings. The latter sometimes causes some tension between him and Cosimo.

If his father is a great lover of the performing arts, then Manifico is likewise a supporter of sports and knightly games. He has a good relationship with the Knights of St; Cuthbert and frequently sponsors their jousting or other martial contests. Sometimes he longs to join them on their righteous and noble quests, but alas, his physical form is unsuitable for such hardships and the massive pile of documents on his desk would grow to truly unimaginable proportions in his abscense.

Not getting any younger, his greatest ambition is to succeed the family patriarch as Chairman of the Guild and he works tirelessly to prove himself in his father's eyes. However, Cosimo is as stubborn as he is strict, and while he acknowledge his son is talented, Manifico has yet to truly match his father.

Manifico de Medici looks much like a younger version of his father: a somewhat short Gnome with glasses and a receding hairline, except middle-aged and making futile attempts to hide his graying temples with black dye (futile because his natural haircolor is auburn and he neglects to also dye his mustache).

Special Abilities

 * Spell-Like Abilities: (1/day) Speak with Animals (Burrowing), Dancing Lights, Ghost Sound (DC 12), Prestidigitation.