Strangely enough, he's an honest businessman in a shady business. He has a ruthless belief in fulfilling his side of the bargain. He may try to strike as unfair a bargain as possible, but once it is struck, he'll honor it to the end. Even if you screw him. As the Player put it to me, "If you agree to give him 4 camels in trade, and you give 3, you owe him. He will then happily arrange to "liberate" a camel from you. But only one. You only owe him one. The fact that the camel he liberated was from your trade caravan and happened to be loaded down with expensive goods is a happy coincidence and should be chalked up to "carrying charges". Which means that as an information broker, he's very discreet. You're much safer trading info with him (or trading him info on others so that he doesn't reveal yours) than you are having him find out on his own.
I'm quite sure he's providing Whitewall once the siege starts up. (Which is why the order of the taking of Karse compared to the serious set to in Whitewall is of some importance to me.)
LC
On 28 Jun 2004 at 8:07, Jane Williams wrote:
>
> > But trade in exotic magics and other bits of shady business
> > (which is where he makes his REAL money) works very well when
> > everyone is a little
> > concerned about everything else. Open warfare sucks, but
> > rebellion and some political
> > chaos is a great way to make a killing if you know the right
> > people to sell to.
>
> He's supplying Whitewall. I can tell. Not the boring food and ammuniation
> everyone else does, the really fancy widgets that they find they need for
> the next Cunning Plan. How is he about selling information?
>
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