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An Intrepid Merchant is a merchant that goes to the far corners of his world, bravely seeking profit. He is a treasure-hunter but the treasure is not hidden, it is in the bazaar waiting for him after he has crossed the deserts, mountains, seas, or trackless gulfs of space. The chief characteristic of an Intrepid Merchant is that he is both a merchant and an adventurer. He buys and sells like any other trader. The difference is that he goes to far distant markets to find what he is looking for. (May be fond of being In Harm's Way — after all, the more dangerous it is to get at something, the rarer and, therefore, more valuable it's likely to be.) On the less salubrious side of things, this character type can overlap with being a Privateer or Pirate (where the risk is the original owner fighting back), a Venturous Smuggler (where the risk is that you're trading illegally), or even a slave trader. If he ever "retires" (or at least settles in one place), he's likely to become a Merchant Prince on the basis of his earnings. This trope is Older Than Feudalism, dating back in poetry, folklore, and history to at least Sinbad the Sailor, continuing as a staple of adventure fiction until the present day, and finding its way into science-fiction almost as soon as the genre came into existence. It migrated to role-playing games, especially Traveller, in which it is one of the main player character types. Inevitably the Intrepid Trader found new territory to explore in computer games, appearing in Elite and its successors. A common space subtrope of this would be the Space Trucker. Intrepid Merchants were arguably the foundation of the world's economy before easy transportation and communication made his kind irrelevant. They still exist in places like Central Asia in which transportation and communication are not easy. When a whole culture has this as its Hat, it is a Proud Merchant Race. Intrepid Merchants are commonly found in a Merchant City. See also Dungeon Shop, where merchants somehow establish themselves inside video game dungeons. You can also commonly expect to see Intrepid Merchants acting as examples of We Sell Everything, due to their travels supplying them with a staggering variety of different wares. |
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Crossed Swords have a gypsy woman in the second game who, as soon as you complete a stage, teleports in front of you to sell you health, power-ups, and weapons, regardless where you are in the game. | |
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Might and Magic had a few. One example was in 6, where the best inn in the game, where you could buy 40 units of supplies, was south of a town where you initially had to fly over a few mountains to reach. Not coincidentally, this was located at the fork of two roads, one of which led to Dragonsands (one of the most dangerous parts of the game, with had no inn at all) and the other to Paradise Valley (which did have a town and an inn, but required getting past hordes of dragons and titans to get to.). | |
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In Digimon Ghost Game, Kiyoshiro's partner Jellymon has a hobby of selling goods and services to other Digimon stuck in the real world, with her harebrained schemes occasionally endangering the group. | |
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The Annas from Fire Emblem, who basically appear in every game not only as the Series Mascot but as the ones handling all the Secret Shops. Three of them can be recruited as playable characters in Fire Emblem: Awakening, Fire Emblem Fates, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses and the former two can even become Love Interests if either marries the games' male Avatars; others are seen handling the gates to the Outrealms as well as several other spots in them. | |
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In Dragon Quest III, the Merchant recruited by the Hero joins a quest to save the world from a demon king, an adventure which will take them around the world and even below it. In the process, they'll found a new city (and will be kicked out of it when the settlers grow sick of their dictatorial management). | |
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Most (actual) travelers in Breath of the Wild roam the unsafe roads of post-Calamity Hyrule to trade goods in faraway settlements. | |
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In the sequel, the Merchant job returns along with the other seven basic jobs, and the merchant traveler this time is Partitio, who goes on a journey to fight against poverty in the world after witnessing his hometown's rise and fall. The Merchant job in this game retains most skills from the previous game, but there are also new skills, like Arrow of Fortune which deals damage as well as generating additional JP, and Tradewinds is replaced by Ember. Also, Partitio can use a new Path Action called "Hire" at night, which has him pay an NPC some leaves to join him to be summoned in battles. | |
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Roguelikes NetHack and Dungeon Crawl have shops inside the dungeon; Angband merchants play it a little safer, hanging out only in the town atop the dungeon. | |
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Warriv from Diablo II is a merchant who badly needs to go to Lut Gholeim but the path is blocked by monsters, so he hangs around the Rogues' camp while hoping the Player Character can undo the mess. Once he/she does, he takes him/her with him on his trip. | |
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Caravaneer: The player in both games has to traverse a harsh desert filled with bandits to make a fortune through trading goods from one town to another. | |
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The Gu Binnen Trade Federation in Drifters. | |
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Leland Gaunt is an evil version in Needful Things. He shows up in town, sets up shop, and sells "gray objects" that change shape according to the buyer's desires for a pittance and a favor which always sets two unrelated people against each other. In the end, he always winds up selling only one thing: weapons. | |
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EXTRAPOWER: Giant Fist has two, Johnny and Eighty, either one of whom appears in every stage, serving as the game's Dungeon Shop. | |
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In the Arabian Nights: Sinbad the sailor. Who was actually based on a real person — a Chinese sailor, and Muslim, who traveled as far as Venice to bring back goods to China — only to have his deeds dashed from all records of Chinese history. |
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Marco Polo: Marco, his father Nicolo and most of the men of Venice. | |
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World of Warcraft: Many dungeons and raids have repair vendors, which allow players to repair their armor and weapons. Karazhan has two such merchants. One is a spectral merchant right after the first (major) boss. After players defeat Attumen the Huntsman, they gain access to a merchant shortly after. This merchant is a notable subversion of the trope because he exists more for selling vendor trash than to buy items. Karazhan has a tremendous amount of useless loot that can be sold to vendors, so players would quickly fill their bags and have to leave the raid to empty them again. The other is an ethereal that appears near the middle of the raid. He mostly serves the same purpose as the spectral merchant at the beginning of the raid. Firelands also has such merchants, but their merchants double as unique zone drop traders. They will buy the large amount of vendor trash that Firelands mobs drop, but they also are the place where the Firelands-only currency can be traded for items. Dragon Soul as well. Trading in items such as "Blood of Corrupted Deathwing" is their purpose, though they also will buy your vendor trash so you can empty your bags. These types of merchants that exist solely to empty one's bags have mostly been phased out in raids and dungeons that have outdoor areas such as Hellfire Citadel. This is because the item Reins of the Traveler's Tundra Mammoth and Grand Expedition Yak exist. These items carry their own Intrepid Merchants, which allow players to sell their vendor trash and repair their gear anywhere they can use a mount. |
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ANNIE: Last Hope: Frank, an Arms Dealer who had a habit of appearing two steps in front of you, may it be in an abandoned school, the middle of the Arctic, a derelict shopping mall, the middle of the cultists' hideout... you even lampshade it during one cutscene by asking how did Frank keeps appearing from out of nowhere, though you're interrupted by zombies before getting an answer. | |
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In Roots of Pacha, Zeda, Zelk, and Brub and are three traveling merchants who occasionally visit the village to trade with you. | |
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A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky: This happens a couple of times, with the one at the bottom of a buried tower in the nowhere of a desert lampshading the trope. | |
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Dryden Fassa in The Vision of Escaflowne heads a large merchant convoy of airships owned by his father, a rich and powerful Merchant Prince. He becomes quite the player in the cast, thanks to becoming The Team Benefactor and quite the Guile Hero. | |
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Legend of Zagor has the Three-Eyes Haag, who owns a provision shop inside the dungeon whose items for sale includes even weapons. Rob him at your own risk. In the same book there's Elranel the Elf, who walks around the area carrying a bag of weapons, although his presence is justified due to being a thief hoping to sell looted goods from within the castle. | |
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The Order of the Stick: The video game version is parodied when, right before The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, a merchant appears out of thin air to give the heroes one last chance to make purchases. | |
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Resident Evil: Resident Evil 4 features The Merchant. He may be infected by Plagas, given his Glowing Eyes of Doom, but he seems like a pretty cool guy regardless. Rather than bludgeon Leon's brains out he'd rather earn some cash selling weapons and upgrades to the agent. He always manages to somehow be one step ahead of Leon to set up shop in unusual locations that the player had to fight to the death in order to reach. There's also his buddy, the Duke, from Resident Evil Village, who manages to set up shop in or nearby each of the village lords' strongholds before Ethan gets there, despite his massive girth. |
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According to Noob: Le Conseil des Trois Factions, a Player Character can become one themselves if they wish. However, all the perk really does is make commerce easier, so how intrepid they really are is up to them. The mechanic also exists because the Non-Player Character cast includes a congregation of intrepid merchants. | |
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Exalted: Intrepid Merchants are among the most likely to go far in The Guild. Among the most notable achievements are how they reacted to the observations of the raksha by making overtures intended to teach them the very concept of commerce, just so that they could have an inroad to trade for their magical items. | |
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Resident Evil 4 features The Merchant. He may be infected by Plagas, given his Glowing Eyes of Doom, but he seems like a pretty cool guy regardless. Rather than bludgeon Leon's brains out he'd rather earn some cash selling weapons and upgrades to the agent. He always manages to somehow be one step ahead of Leon to set up shop in unusual locations that the player had to fight to the death in order to reach. | |
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In Dragon Age: Origins, the player's party runs into Sandal near the top of Fort Drakon during the final battle for Denerim. Lampshaded somewhat by the player character's expression of extreme surprise at his presence (and at the dozens of dead darkspawn scattered around the room). Despite Bohdan playing the usual part of the merchant for the party while Sandal acts as an enchanter, Sandal acts as both a merchant and enchanter in this situation. Same in the sequel, Dragon Age II, when there is a huge battle in the Gallows, mages against Templars, and with demons and abominations summoned to aid. And deep in the building, Sandal is there with his father's wares, and Hawke's storage chest, and he is surrounded by dead mages, templars, and demons (including a pride demon). |
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In The Stormlight Archive, Vstim is a renowned merchant who travels all over the world to civilizations many overlook to buy goods unavailable elsewhere. His great success stems from his beliefs that Honesty Is the Best Policy and that traders have an ethical responsibility to benefit their customers as well as themselves, earning him many trusted friends among distant peoples. | |
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Most settings of Dungeons & Dragons aren't nice safe places, be it Spelljammer or Dark Sun — thus there are merchants hauling cargo through anything, and sometimes a sourcebook about them. In Forgotten Realms you don't know whether the next caravan will be raided by a dragon, Zhents, or mere goblins. But a special mention must be given to "enterprising entrepreneur, Aurora the Eclectic", ex-adventurer and founder of all-goods retail chain with its Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue. Welcome to Crazy Hassan's Used Camels! |
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The opening of A Thing of Vikings begins with the crew of the Merchant Sailor Johann discussing the trading opportunities of the hazard port of Berk, which they've just sighted as they sail through dragon-infested waters. The local Vikings fight with the local dragons, and Johann comes to buy the dragon parts for sale in more civilized regions, naming places across Europe as possible points of sale for dragon hide, bones, meat and organs. Things then abruptly change when they discover that the status quo has met a slight... Hiccup. | |
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Dwarf Fortress, as you may have already guessed, has merchants willing to walk into anything this side of lava to do their business. Just read the Badass Boast of a human merchant prince. And here we thought fish in DF were "too hardcore". | |
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Fallout 3: There are several — each one is a trader with a pack Brahmin and a bodyguard to take care of Shoplift and Die duties, and they are the only people aside from Raiders, mercenary headhunters and the odd hunter who regularly leave population centres to cross the Wasteland. | |
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Nurse Joy is an Intrepid Charity Worker, believe it or not. The Pokémon Centers heal your Pokémon for free, but they're located almost everywhere, even places like the foot of Mt. Silver (located in Gold and Silver, and the remakes of those games.) | |
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Rebuild has Gustav the Trader. He comes around every week to sell items for food, buy items for food, or propose the services of his Band of Brothels, seemingly unaffected by the high numbers of zombies. Aside from Gustav, food caravans can pass by and agree to trade with you as a random event. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Beedle in various games sometimes takes this role, particularly in his first appearance in The Wind Waker, where his shop ship will be found floating around not just populated areas, but random rocks in the middle of nowhere. Most (actual) travelers in Breath of the Wild roam the unsafe roads of post-Calamity Hyrule to trade goods in faraway settlements. |
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Noob: Ardacos, who's You All Look Familiar handwaved as New Job as the Plot Demands, is sometimes seen as traveling merchant in hostile areas. According to Noob: Le Conseil des Trois Factions, a Player Character can become one themselves if they wish. However, all the perk really does is make commerce easier, so how intrepid they really are is up to them. The mechanic also exists because the Non-Player Character cast includes a congregation of intrepid merchants. |
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Eye of the Dragon has a merchant whose shop is at the entrance of the monster-infested dungeon, and a witch who sells potions in the dungeon. | |
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In Forgotten Realms you don't know whether the next caravan will be raided by a dragon, Zhents, or mere goblins. But a special mention must be given to "enterprising entrepreneur, Aurora the Eclectic", ex-adventurer and founder of all-goods retail chain with its Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue. | |
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Rebuild World: Katsuragi is one as an Arms Dealer living out of a Big Badass Rig. He's willing to take great risks as part of his ambitions to be at the head of a MegaCorp, making dangerous runs to the front lines of a war zone, and he's Minored in Ass-Kicking. Katsuragi's risk-taking also extends to trading in illegal Antimatter rounds. He also trades in Lost Technology relics. | |
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In one Bloom County arc, Opus is lost in the desert dying of thirst; he finally finds salvation from a 7-Eleven that someone thought to set up there. (The clerk doesn't speak English, unfortunately, but Opus seems to make due as he's able to return home in the next strip.) | |
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In Traveller the players are often Free Traders, buying goods (sometimes the illegal kind) on one planet and selling them on another in an attempt to make their ship's mortgage payments. | |
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The Adventurer of Bravely Default (whose wares improve as you play the rebuilding minigame) also saves your game. He lampshades the Suspicious Video-Game Generosity, outright saying "It only gets worse from here" when he's stationed in front of a boss fight. Near the end of the sequel, it is revealed that the Adventurer is actually a time-traveling woman with a keen interest on the party's success. | |
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The trope is mentioned briefly in the background material for Star Realms. Thanks to such brave and enterprising traders, the typically hostile Blobs are willing to trade with and provide ships for humans. | |
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Whenever you open trade with far cities in any game of the City-Building Series, merchants will travel from all over the world to trade with you, no matter how far you are. If you're about to be invaded, they will even inform you about soldiers on the road or political unrest (depending on the game). | |
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Star Trek gives us a few examples. Star Trek: The Original Series had Cyrano Jones and Harry Mudd, frequently found at the frontier with new and exotic goods for sale from worlds the rest of the Federation had never heard of. This almost always went badly for all involved thanks to them not looking into their goods too much before trying to sell them. The whole Ferengi race holds this as a cultural ideal, with several episodes from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine revolving around Ferengi characters questing to open new markets in the Gamma Quadrant, Mirror Universe, and in one case with the local sort-of-gods. |
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 has Chocolina, who follows Serah and Noel across different timelines. | |
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Jessica from the third Endless Nightmare game is a spy who secretly helps your character, Carlos, and have a habit of randomly appearing in front of Carlos to offer him weapons and equipment in exchange for his gold and jewels. She can even bypass areas infested with mummies and Anubian monsters, and if Carlos attacks her Jessica simply leaves via Grappling-Hook Pistol before returning later on. | |
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They also have a dedicated RPG tabletop game. | |
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Moonlighter is Intrepid Merchant: The Game. You play as Will, proprietor of the eponymous general store, who like many visitors to the formerly bustling town of Rynoka, journeys into the nearby Labyrinths to collect materials and artifacts to sell to interested townsfolk and travelers. You can use your profits to invest not only in improving your shop but the town as well, bringing back hope and prosperity. | |
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The Delver's Guide to Beast World: Delvers often travel in caravans rolling from one dungeon lead to another, and merchants are vital parts of those caravans, keeping the delvers supplied for their ventures into the dungeon. The chapter on Littfeld, the largest caravan and practically a Mobile City, includes descriptions of over a dozen notable merchants ranging from simple grocers to alchemists. | |
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In Hellspark, the Hellsparks are an entire culture of intergalactic intrepid merchants. | |
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This is the basis of Taloon's whole chapter in Dragon Quest IV. He starts out employed as a humble merchant in someone else's shop earning a commission, but he dreams of making his own successful business. Of all the Chosen, he's the one who most easily finds bonus items after monster battles, and his main quest involves him finding a priceless statuette so he can fund the construction of a tunnel to new lands where he can find more antiquities to sell. His ultimate weapon (for the chapter at least) is even a magical abacus that hits for holy damage. | |
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Crypt Of The Necrodancer has Freddy Merchantry the merchant, an obese opera singer, opening shop in every level of the crypt, even though there are dancing monsters everywhere, and an undead king underneath to boot... Rob him at your own risk... | |
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Castlevania 64 you meet a demon salesman called Renon early on in the Villa, who offers to sell you potions and other items. His stock is not very impressive compared to most merchants, but unlike most, his shop can be accessed from anywhere, using magical scrolls, making him somewhat of an asset. However there is a catch. He neglects to mention that spending more than 30,000 gold in his shop equals to selling your soul to the devil (that clause is technically written into the contract but in a demonic language that humans can't read), in which case Renon will be more than eager to claim his fee when the time comes. (If this happens, you have to fight him as a Optional Boss, right before you face Dracula and the contract is rendered void if you defeat him.) | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series had Cyrano Jones and Harry Mudd, frequently found at the frontier with new and exotic goods for sale from worlds the rest of the Federation had never heard of. This almost always went badly for all involved thanks to them not looking into their goods too much before trying to sell them. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire has an Intrepid Banker called Tycho Nestoris. When the crumbling central government of Westeros rather bluntly refuses to pay the massive debts it owes the Iron Bank of Braavos (a Merchant City that is something of a Fantasy Counterpart Culture to Renaissance Venice), Nestoris willingly goes into several warzones to negotiate with other claimants to the throne, offering to fund their campaigns in exchange for their promises to honor their debts and the debts of the rulers they hope to replace and also doing business with anyone else who wishes to make use of his services. When one of the many Proud Warrior Race Guys that inhabit Westeros ask him about what a banker is doing in such dangerous situations, he proudly claims this trope as his explanation. | |
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The Pokémon games always have a PokéMart that sells some of the best items right before Victory Road, and another one right before the spot where you start your battle with the Elite Four. (And you should really spend as much as you can at the first stop because you'll likely make a fortune battling the trainers on Victory Road.) Nurse Joy is an Intrepid Charity Worker, believe it or not. The Pokémon Centers heal your Pokémon for free, but they're located almost everywhere, even places like the foot of Mt. Silver (located in Gold and Silver, and the remakes of those games.) Another example is the souvenir store at the top of Mt. Moon, also found, in Gold, Silver, and the remakes of those games. Lemonade is probably the most economical healing item in the game (heals 80 HP and costs 350 PokéDollars) but you usually have to get if from vending machines one can at a time, so stocking up takes a while. The shop at the top of Mt. Moon is a place you can buy it in bulk. (But you can't use Fly to get to it, and it's closed at night.) |
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Tintin first met the Portuguese merchant Oliveira de Figueira on a dhow bound for the Middle East, where he sells modern items to the locals. | |
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In Star Traders: Frontiers, you can play one, if you choose to have your sources of cargo be from Salvaging and Exploring. Of course, for some of those items (namely Xeno Artifacts), you'll need to visit a Black Market, or find an Indie Tradeway. | |
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It goes all the way back to the first installment of the series, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. After exploring corridors infested with orcs and goblins, you warily open a door... to see an old man who wants to sell you a Blue Candle. | |
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Beedle in various games sometimes takes this role, particularly in his first appearance in The Wind Waker, where his shop ship will be found floating around not just populated areas, but random rocks in the middle of nowhere. | |
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In La-Mulana, you'll find a shop in the middle of long-abandoned ruins where the shopkeeper tells you he hasn't had a customer in 500 years. It doesn't get much more intrepid than that... | |
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Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy X: "Welcome to O'aka's!" O'aka XXIII (the 23rd) generally appears almost everywhere on the continent before the player's party gets there, though at the beginning of the game he's traveling alongside them. If you give him a loan at the start of the game, he sells discounted items in all future appearances. He sells items to Yuna and her guardians so much that it actually gets him arrested by the Corrupt Church once they become Heroes with Bad Publicity. His brother Wantz then takes over for him at that point, and the first time you can actually buy from him, he's halfway up an mountain that lies before The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, still in his beach clothes. If you talk to them enough, you find out the reason they've been watching over Yuna is because they had a sister who was a Summoner, who looked a lot like Yuna. This would also explain how they knew the route Yuna's party would take to get through the game. Final Fantasy XIII-2 has Chocolina, who follows Serah and Noel across different timelines. |
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In Signs of the Sojourner, you join a caravan that constantly travels between cities in order to exchange goods with other people and keep the Family Business running. | |
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In A Harvest of War, Ayan and the Makimba clan are merchants from the far south. | |
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Suikoden Tierkreis has a whole race of them in the Wanderers. They even travel to different worlds in search of profit. Some of the series allows the player to get into it as well, buying commodities in one region and traveling to the other side of the world to sell it for profit. | |
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Secret of Mana has Neko, a cat person with a pack full of goodies that he will sell for a hefty markup. He tends to show up in the wilderness or in the middle of dungeons, where there's less competition to force his prices down. The well-prepared adventurer seldom has need of his services, but his presence can save your ass if you forgot to stock up before setting out. The game also features an Intrepid Blacksmith in Watts, who is conveniently the only person who can upgrade the Mana weapons. Trials of Mana has Josephine and Chikeeta, a pair of cat merchants, similar to Neko, who pop up around the entrance to each Benevedon's hideout to sell you high-end weapons (Chikeeta) and armor (Josephine). |
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Spice and Wolf: Although the story begins when Holo the wolf spirit hitches a ride in the protagonist's cart, the series primarily follows a fairly ordinary medieval merchant, whose experiences manage to be interesting without seeming unrealistic, traveling company aside. | |
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In Granblue Fantasy, there are Knickknack Shacks everywhere, all managed by a single shopkeeper, Sierokarte. At first, the main crew gets confused after finding an ad for her services deep in the wild forests of Lumacie, then as the game goes on it becomes clear that Siero is less a normal shopkeeper and more the head of an ever-sprawling business empire and one of the more influential people in the skies. She even leads the reinforcements during the final battle with the Erste army along with Tzaka and Monika, despite being a "mere" merchant compared to their high ranks. | |
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In the Chanur sub-series, Pyanfar Chanur is the captain of an interstellar merchant vessel. | |
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In Digital Devil Saga, the local merchant Johnny and his Pyro Jack co-worker consider their profession Serious Business, to the point that, following the entire party's death and ascension to the Sun in a quest to placate God, the former appears in the closest thing said universe has to the Afterlife, still quite intent on fulfilling his role. | |
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Rogue Traders in the Warhammer 40,000 universe are part merchants, part privateers, and sometimes, part conquistador. They also have a dedicated RPG tabletop game. The first edition of Warhammer 40,000 (back in its origins as Warhammer IN SPACE!) was subtitled "Rogue Trader". The assumption being that human armies would be transported on the ships of Rogue Traders, either as their private army or having commandeered it for the Imperium. |
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In NieR: Automata, Emil can be found driving around the world in his tuk-tuk blaring his song. If you manage to get his attention by shooting him down, he'll sell you various materials and upgrades. | |
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Bullet Girls Phantasia has Merrina Iris, a cat girl who serves as the shopkeeper, and has no problems venturing out to kill hordes of Devyants and looting their bodies afterward (with a partner, at least). The characters oftentimes wonder why she spends so much of her massive horde of gold buying your duplicates, especially since most of the sellable items are women's underwear. | |
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The first edition of Warhammer 40,000 (back in its origins as Warhammer IN SPACE!) was subtitled "Rogue Trader". The assumption being that human armies would be transported on the ships of Rogue Traders, either as their private army or having commandeered it for the Imperium. | |
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God of War (PS4) has Brok and Sindri, two dwarven blacksmiths who serve as the game's shopkeepers and are always showing up ahead of Kratos and Atreus wherever they go. According to Sindri, dwarves are capable of traveling between realms nigh-instantaneously to avoid being seen by others. | |
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Minecraft: Wandering Traders can be encountered in every biome of the Overworld, traveling through the monster-infested wilderness in pursuit of trade and costumers despite being entirely unarmed — during the night, they rely on potions of invisibility to avoid being attacked by monsters. | |
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Final Fantasy X: "Welcome to O'aka's!" O'aka XXIII (the 23rd) generally appears almost everywhere on the continent before the player's party gets there, though at the beginning of the game he's traveling alongside them. If you give him a loan at the start of the game, he sells discounted items in all future appearances. He sells items to Yuna and her guardians so much that it actually gets him arrested by the Corrupt Church once they become Heroes with Bad Publicity. His brother Wantz then takes over for him at that point, and the first time you can actually buy from him, he's halfway up an mountain that lies before The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, still in his beach clothes. If you talk to them enough, you find out the reason they've been watching over Yuna is because they had a sister who was a Summoner, who looked a lot like Yuna. This would also explain how they knew the route Yuna's party would take to get through the game. | |
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The Legend of Dragoon: The Peddler Brothers (Primero, Segundo, Tercero, and Quatro) pair up and spend their time buying and selling goods on a glacier and in the middle of some ancient ruins. Both are extremely far out of the way (the ruins in particular only have one path to or from them) and one of the brothers at each location questions the logic of trying to make a living so far off the beaten path. Dabas is a merchant who visited the dangerous Volcano Villude to find rare goods and offers the only opportunity to restock on healing items between Bale and Lohan, almost certainly a necessity given the five boss fights between those two locations. |
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The Spyro the Dragon games has Moneybags, a bear that shows up and functions as a Cash Gate, forcing you to pay him in order to progress with the game. | |
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Fable: Traders can be found traversing both the Darkwood and Witchwood with their wares — and, more often than not, getting attacked by bandits and monsters, since they lack NPC Random Encounter Immunity. Lampshaded when one trader on an Escort Mission asks his friend why they don't just set up shop in town instead. | |
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Jet Force Gemini: Diamond Geezer, a friendly airborne drone, serves as the game's resident shopkeeper. He can be found in several worlds in the game, including hostile ones like Ichor and Eschebone. | |
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Ragnarok Online: This is a playable class. They (mostly) deal with the economy and are able to generate cash at an increased rate with their Overcharge and Discount skills; they can also employ Pushcarts as a kind of second inventory, and if they have this they can do Vending to sell valuable items to other players. In battle they use axes, and additionally can throw money at the enemy (Mammonite skill). Later on, Merchants can progress into the Blacksmith and Alchemist lines. | |
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Trials of Mana has Josephine and Chikeeta, a pair of cat merchants, similar to Neko, who pop up around the entrance to each Benevedon's hideout to sell you high-end weapons (Chikeeta) and armor (Josephine). | |
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The Elite franchise (whose first incarnation took a great many cues from the aforementioned Traveller) makes every player character one of these to some extent: Even if you choose to specialise as a Bounty Hunter, mercenary or space pirate you'll find yourself doing a bit of freelance trading or delivery runs on the side to make a bit of Boring, but Practical cash, which may turn out to be the opposite of boring if the gig leads you into some of the less civilised star systems. | |
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Charon fills this role in Hades. He shows up repeatedly during a single run, including a guaranteed appearance in front of every boss room. Being able to always show up and set up his wares ahead of you is justified by being The Ferryman of the River Styx which runs through the Underworld, and can move freely on it. | |
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Darth Vader: The client from The Ninth Assassin is a trillionare mining magnate who prefers to conduct important deals face to face and is calm and perceptive for most of a dangerous trek through a jungle to find someone he wants to deal with (although in that case, it is an assassin to kill Vader rather than someone he wants to make money for him). | |
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The Magimel Brothers from Shadow Hearts: Covenant. Their profile explicitly stated that they "go anywhere, no matter how dangerous" to offer their service to whoever might need them. Yuri is continuously baffled at them appearing in the most unlikely of places, including an otherworldly fortress raised by Rasputin the Mad Monk, an actual powerful warlock on this continuity, to the ruins of a burned down monastery deep within the Earth and a facsimile of Japanese Hell created by a Taoist adept. Only Gerard returned in From the New World and along with his boyfriend Bughend, play the same role. | |
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Dragons: Riders of Berk and Dragons: Race to the Edge feature Trader Johann, who pops up from time to time to spin tales of how he got all of the goods that he sells to the citizens of Berk, despite seeming to be a foppish coward. He's far more than he appears, though... | |
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Same in the sequel, Dragon Age II, when there is a huge battle in the Gallows, mages against Templars, and with demons and abominations summoned to aid. And deep in the building, Sandal is there with his father's wares, and Hawke's storage chest, and he is surrounded by dead mages, templars, and demons (including a pride demon). | |
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Dragon Quest: In Dragon Quest III, the Merchant recruited by the Hero joins a quest to save the world from a demon king, an adventure which will take them around the world and even below it. In the process, they'll found a new city (and will be kicked out of it when the settlers grow sick of their dictatorial management). This is the basis of Taloon's whole chapter in Dragon Quest IV. He starts out employed as a humble merchant in someone else's shop earning a commission, but he dreams of making his own successful business. Of all the Chosen, he's the one who most easily finds bonus items after monster battles, and his main quest involves him finding a priceless statuette so he can fund the construction of a tunnel to new lands where he can find more antiquities to sell. His ultimate weapon (for the chapter at least) is even a magical abacus that hits for holy damage. |
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Melnorme in Star Control. Very useful especially when they come to save your butt if you get stranded in Hyperspace. However, if you do not have credits be prepared for an (un)fair exchange. Even the Melnorme have limits to their intrepidness. They bug out of the galaxy once the Death March begins. | |
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Mal and his crew from Firefly, though due to the harsh nature of the show, they struggle just to make enough money to get by. "Intrepid" doesn't guarantee "successful". | |
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Treasure Hunter G turns the player's party onto this, since you don't earn money from random encounters. The only way to make money is to acquire goods from dungeons to sell, or buy items where they are cheap and take them to where they'll sell for a higher price. | |
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Players in No Man's Sky can become these by selling resources they've mined at local trading posts or Space Stations, and can game the local economy by gathering lots of resources like Plutonium in a system where it's common and selling it in a system where it's considered rare. A good way to earn some quick Units, and played quite literally since most of the planets in the game are unexplored. | |
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Voltar from Crimson Flag tries to sell the heroes stuff, while they're chasing the bad guy, using his airship. | |
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One of the Hero Sims in The Sims Medieval is a Merchant, who often has to travel to foreign kingdoms to trade. Since they're Hero Sims, they also have a wide range of quests to embark on. | |
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Mahbub Ali, an Afghan horse-trader in Kim. Well, if his caravan is ambushed and shot at twice in one season, it's unusual, but not quite shocking. | |
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Vega Strike aside of privateers choosing this line of work has Merchant faction ("Interstellar Shipping and Mercantile Guild"); Loading Screen with their advertisement says they even run through blockades. | |
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Ninja: Shadow of Darkness: At the end of most levels you will come across a provision shop, whose owner will sell you items like smoke bombs, power ups, food (to restore health), extra lives and even weapons. Never mind why would anyone set up shop outside a haunted ghost city, a cavern filled with giant spiders, in the middle of a snowy monster-infested wasteland, or the entrance to Hell. | |
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There's also his buddy, the Duke, from Resident Evil Village, who manages to set up shop in or nearby each of the village lords' strongholds before Ethan gets there, despite his massive girth. | |
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Octopath Traveler: Merchant is a character class in this game. Bifelgan is one of the twelve gods who rule the world and is the gods of merchants. Tressa, one of the player characters, has it as a primary class, while any other playable character can pick it up as a subclass. With this class, the characters can "collect" money from villains, typically two to four times the money one gains from winning the fight, use money to hire mercenaries to attack, has access to wind magicnote This is likely a pun on the concept of trade winds for merchants, and the class' ultimate attack Bifelgan's Bounty does harsh damage to the enemy and for each HP of damage inflicted (to the limit of the enemy's current HP) gets one leaf, the currency of the game, for the player. Tressa can also buy items from NPCs and will sometimes spot money others have left on the ground in rooms she enters into, adding it to the party's purse. Tressa's story is centered around her traveling the world and discovering treasures. In the sequel, the Merchant job returns along with the other seven basic jobs, and the merchant traveler this time is Partitio, who goes on a journey to fight against poverty in the world after witnessing his hometown's rise and fall. The Merchant job in this game retains most skills from the previous game, but there are also new skills, like Arrow of Fortune which deals damage as well as generating additional JP, and Tradewinds is replaced by Ember. Also, Partitio can use a new Path Action called "Hire" at night, which has him pay an NPC some leaves to join him to be summoned in battles. |
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Fighting Fantasy has plenty of these. Imagine exploring a monster-infested dungeon or a castle full of deadly orcs, and suddenly coming across a random shop filled with equipment and goods. It goes all the way back to the first installment of the series, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. After exploring corridors infested with orcs and goblins, you warily open a door... to see an old man who wants to sell you a Blue Candle. Legend of Zagor has the Three-Eyes Haag, who owns a provision shop inside the dungeon whose items for sale includes even weapons. Rob him at your own risk. In the same book there's Elranel the Elf, who walks around the area carrying a bag of weapons, although his presence is justified due to being a thief hoping to sell looted goods from within the castle. Eye of the Dragon has a merchant whose shop is at the entrance of the monster-infested dungeon, and a witch who sells potions in the dungeon. |
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