Trading Mastery

Trading Mastery
The Mercane (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons) are the greatest merchants/traders in the multiverse, with such innate knowledge and skill that allows them find and sell anything/everything that their customers are searching for.
Power/Ability to:	Be a master of how to sell/trade.

"What're ya buyin'?"

― Merchant (Resident Evil)

"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."

― Oscar Wilde

"Allow me to say this, Ri Boku. When it comes to doing business, I have never in my entire life budged a single inch from my offered price."

― Ryo Fui (Kingdom)

The ability to be a master of selling/trading, either innately or through training. Technique of Business Mastery. Variation of Intuitive Aptitude and Complete Mastery.

Also Called

• Adept/Expert/Gifted/Intuitive/Master/Professional/Skilled/Specialized/Talented Merchant/Salesperson/Trader
• Barter Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Proficiency/Skill/Specialism/Talent
• Buying-and-Selling Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Proficiency/Skill/Specialism/Talent
• Haggling Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Proficiency/Skill/Specialism/Talent
• Merchant Acumen/Intuition/Management/Mastery/Savvy/Sense
• Straw Millionaire
• Trading Aptitude/Expertise/Intuition/Proficiency/Skill/Specialism/Talent

Capabilities

The user, either innately or through training, is a master of selling/trading. They can perform feats such as locating any/all items for sale or trade regardless of how difficult (or impossible) it might be to find or sell and is always able to have the best or lowest price for said items and can convince others to buy them regardless of their level of value.

Using this ability, the user can become wealthy very quickly and easily, and perform feats such as always making trades that generate profits, making the right choice when it comes to trading and advancing said trade, and predicting the best time to make trades (buying/selling).

This is the ultimate trading mechanism, since the user will automatically trade with perfect skill, technique and timing. The user's full and complete mastery in trading and anything related to trading makes them the ultimate trader.

Applications

• Absolute Buying
• Charisma Mastery
• Convinced Inevitability
• Haggling Mastery
• Information Brokering Mastery
• Locality Tracking
• Manipulation Mastery
• Monetary Manipulation
• Negotiation Mastery
• Numerical Precision
• Opportunity Sense
• Persuasion
• Probability Computation
• Quality Sense
• Rarity Detection

Associations

• Arms Industry Mastery
• Business Mastery
• Crime Mastery
• Golden Luck
• Immense Wealth
• Intuitive Aptitude
• Merchant
• Psychological Mastery

Limitations

• Must still make their own trade.
• May require a degree of training or exposure.
• May take time to achieve such mastery.

Known Users

• Mercane (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons)
• Wes Weasely (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Various civilizations (Age of Empires series)
• Dock staff (Age of Empires series)
• Market staff (Age of Empires series)
• Trade Boat line (Age of Empires)
  • Trade Boat crews
  • Merchant Ship crews
• Trade Cart drivers (Age of Empires)
• Feitoria staff (Age of Empires II)
• Harbor staff (Age of Empires II)
• Trade Cart drivers (Age of Empires II)
• Trade Cog crews (Age of Empires II)
• Trade units (Age of Mythology)
  • Caravans
    • Camel Caravans
    • Deer Caravans
    • Donkey Caravans
    • Llama Caravans
    • Mechanical Ox Caravans
    • Ox Caravans
    • Yak Caravans (Tale of the Dragon)
  • Pixius
• Trading Pose staff (Age of Mythology)
• Iroquois/Haudenosaunee Villagers (Age of Empires III); since the Definitive Edition
• Livestock Market staff (Age of Empires III)
• Minor civilizations (Age of Empires III)
• Sioux/Lakota Villagers (Age of Empires III); since the Definitive Edition
• Tambo staff (Age of Empires III)
• Trade units (Age of Empires III)
  • Barter Merchants
  • Caravan Guides
  • Caravan Traders
  • Cargo Boat captains
  • East Indiaman crews
  • Oceanic Carrack crews
  • Rickshaw drivers
  • River Traders
  • Scholars
  • Stagecoach drivers
  • Steam Train crews
  • Trade Cart draggers
  • Trade Galleon crews
  • Traders
  • Trading Barge crews
  • Traveling Merchants
  • Travois/Trade Travois users
• Trading Post staff (Age of Empires III)
• Chamber of Commerce staff (Age of Empires IV)
• Guild Hall staff (Age of Empires IV)
• High Trade House staff (Age of Empires IV)
• House of Wisdom Trade Wing staff (Age of Empires IV)
• Hunting Cabin residents (Age of Empires IV); implied
• Saharan Trade Network staff (Age of Empires IV)
• The Silver Tree residents (Age of Empires IV)
• Sultanhani Trade Network staff (Age of Empires IV)
• Toll Outpost guards (Age of Empires IV)
• Trade Caravans (Age of Empires IV)
• Trade Post staff (Age of Empires III)
• Trade Ship crews (Age of Empires IV)
• Traders (Age of Empires IV)
• Venetian Traders (Age of Empires IV)
• Trade Cart drivers (Chronicles: Battle for Greece)
• Trade Cog crews (Chronicles: Battle for Greece)
• Akashi (Azur Lane)
• Shiranui (Azur Lane)
• Black Tortoise Promenade (Blue Archive)
  • Akeshiro Rumi
• Sora (Blue Archive)
• Sanada Masato (Choujin Koukousei-tachi wa Isekai demo Yoyuu de Ikinuku you desu!)
• Benantandi (The Citadel)
• Esqa (The Citadel)
• Harriett (The Citadel)
• Martyr (The Citadel)
• Tycho (The Citadel)
• Schneizel el Britannia (Code Geass)
• Black Market staff (Command & Conquer: Generals)
• Sans (Deltarune)
• Vendors (Deltarune)
  • Addisons
  • Rouxls Kaard
  • Bake Sale
  • Seam
  • Spamton
  • Swatch
  • Sweet Cap'n Cakes
• Izaya Orihara (Durarara!)
• Protagonists (Fallout); via Charisma or Barter skill
• Anna family (Fire Emblem)
• Petyr Baelish/Littlefinger (Game of Thrones)
• Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
• Stanley Pines (Gravity Falls)
• Kaito Nakamura (Heroes)
• Willie Loman 3000 (Jimmy Neutron)
• Higashikata Fruit Company/Higashikata Fruit Parlor (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: JoJolion)
  • Jobin Higashikata
  • Norisuke Higashikata I
  • Norisuke Higashikata IV
• Akashi (Kantai Collection)
• Ryo Fui (Kingdom)
• Experiment "Slick" 020 (Lilo & Stitch)
• Eddie Gunman/The Swell (Marvel Comics)
• Maguro Kurokami (Medaka Box)
• Piglins (Minecraft)
• Player/Steve/Alex (Minecraft)
• Villagers (Minecraft)
• Wandering Traders (Minecraft)
• Shopekeeper (Modern MoGal)
• Johan Liebert (Monster)
• Flim and Flam (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)
• Merchants (Octopath Traveler)
• Glukkons (Oddworld)
  • Tressa Colzione
  • Partitio Yellowil
• The Duke (Resident Evil)
• Merchant (Resident Evil)
• Sophia (Persona 5 Strikers)
• Kraft Lawrence (Spice and Wolf)
• Lagh Piasky (Spice and Wolf)
• Economic civilizations (Spore)
• Trader empires (Spore)
• Ferengi (Star Trek)
• Daietsu-no-suke (Straw Millionaire)
• Market staff (Stronghold series)
• Niccolo (Sword of Mana)
• Epona (Tears to Tiara)
• Rinnosuke Morichika (Touhou Project)
• Vendors (Undertale)
  • Bratty
  • Burgerpants
  • Catty
  • Gerson Boom
  • Nice Cream Guy
  • Sans
  • Snowdin Shopkeeper
  • Spider Bake Sale
  • Tem Shopkeeper
• Merchant (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Rogue Traders (Warhammer 40,000)
• Ta'u Water Caste merchants (Warhammer 40,000)

Known Objects

• Swell's Stick (Marvel Comics)

Gallery

Wes Weasely (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog)

Trade Cart drivers (Age of Empires)

Trade Cart drivers (Age of Empires II)

Donkey Caravans (Age of Mythology)

Camel Caravans (Age of Mythology)

Ox Caravans (Age of Mythology)

Llama Caravans (Age of Mythology)

Mechanical Ox Caravans (Age of Mythology)

Deer Caravans (Age of Mythology)

Pixius (Age of Mythology)

Yak Caravans (Age of Mythology: Tale of the Dragon)

Trade Travois users (Age of Empires III)

Stagecoach drivers (Age of Empires III)

Barter Merchants (Age of Empires III)

Traveling Merchants (Age of Empires III) and their Pack Llamas.

Rickshaw drivers (Age of Empires III)

Trade Cart users (Age of Empires III)

Traders (Age of Empires III)

Caravan Traders (Age of Empires III) and their Pack Camels.

Caravan Guides (Age of Empires III) and their Caravan Pack Camels.

Scholars (Age of Empires III)

River Traders (Age of Empires III)

Cargo Boat captains (Age of Empires III) as seen from the rear hull.

Iroquois/Haudenosaunee Villagers (Age of Empires III) working at a Tribal Marketplace.

Sioux/Lakota Villagers (Age of Empires III) working at a Tribal Marketplace.

Byzantine Traders (Age of Empires IV)

English Traders (Age of Empires IV)

French Traders (Age of Empires IV)

Holy Roman Empire Traders (Age of Empires IV)

Rus Traders (Age of Empires IV)

Abbasid Dynasty Traders (Age of Empires IV)

Delhi Sultanate Traders (Age of Empires IV)

Chinese Traders (Age of Empires IV)

Japanese Traders (Age of Empires IV)

Mongol Traders (Age of Empires IV)

Ottoman Traders (Age of Empires IV)

Malian Traders (Age of Empires IV)

Trade Caravans (Age of Empires IV)

Venetian Traders (Age of Empires IV)

Akashi (Azur Lane)

Shiranui (Azur Lane)

Akeshiro Rumi (Blue Archive)

Sora (Blue Archive)

Tycho (The Citadel) is a super merchant and arms dealer who sells from ordinary supplies (like blood bags and food) to deadly weapons.

Like his father Tycho, Esqa (The Citadel) is also a super merchant and arms dealer, though he usually prefers not to do so.

Harriette (The Citadel) is responsible for selling blood bags, oxygen canisters and food.

Benandanti (The Citadel) is responsible for selling blood bags, oxygen canisters and food.

Sans (Deltarune) runs a Grocery Store named "'Sans".

The Anna family (Fire Emblem) are masterful traveling merchants across the multiverse.

Kaito Nakamura (Heroes) predicts the stock market simply by reading the newspaper, thus he easily became extremely wealthy by trading stocks.

Akashi (Kantai Collection)

Due to his past as a merchant, Ryo Fui (Kingdom) is quite skilled in political and financial "bartering".

Experiment 020 "Slick" (Lilo & Stitch)

Wandering Traders (Minecraft)

Shopkeeper (Modern Mogal)

Flim and Flam (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Partitio Yellowil (Octopath Traveler) has charm, drive, and kindness, all the makings of a good merchant.

Sophia (Persona 5 Strikers)

Merchant (Resident Evil)

Niccolo (Sword of Mana) is a master merchant with enough skill to convince almost anyone to buy his wares.

Rinnosuke Morichika (Touhou Project)

Merchant (Valkyrie Crusade) has innate knowledge and skill in selling, to the point she is able to make anyone sell to her anything she wishes.

Rogue Traders (Warhammer 40,000)

Ta'u Water Caste merchants (Warhammer 40,000)