Name of Business: Kilvin's Forge
Business Type: Runeforge and Blacksmithy with Alchemical Lab
Items Sold: Runeforged items mainly but Torin will take on Blacksmithing jobs too. Alchemical items can by purchased in the shop or ordered as well.
Services Provide: Custom Magical Item Creation, Torin specializes in creating new things or adjusting the schematics for already existing schemas.
Income
Base Income: Runesmith (Master) — 15 gp/day
Skill Bonus: Apprentice x 1.5, Journeyman x 2, Expert x 2.5, Master x3 = 337
Base Income: Blacksmith (Expert) — 14 gp/day
Skill Bonus: Apprentice x 1.5, Journeyman x 2, =42
Total Income: 379gp/day
Bonuses
Sales Bonus: 20%
Ingenuity/Creativity Bonus: 5%
Loyalty Bonus: 5%
Hired PCs Bonus:
Sivan, Alchemist (Journeyman, +50%)
Hired NPCs Bonus:
Timon: Clerk (Apprentice +25%)
Renault: Personal Mage (Journeyman +50%)
Costs:
Hired PCs Wages:
Sivan - 12gp/day
Hired NPCs Wages:
Timon - 10gp/day
Renault - 12gp/day
Assets
The property consists of a duel Runforge and Blacksmithy on the first floor, and Alchemical and Artificing labs above them. The yard is large enough to allow for horses or similarly sized animals to enter for shoeing and the like. A small shop, a single room for the sales floor, and a small backroom for storing items not on display, is the only part of the property that shows to the street. The forges as well as the two-story house with a basement are all behind a large fence that circles the property as a whole. All four work areas are well stocked with the gear needed to pursue the professions they support. The house is well furnished, though simple, with four bedrooms, a large kitchen, and a common area with a dining table and places to sit around a brazier.
Torin has taken on a binding contract to provide his working hours mainly to house Luekos for the first two years after he opens the business, with the option to renew if both parties agree.
Debts:
None
Seasonal Interest Rate: Currently not applicable.
Description of Business:
The shop front is small but inviting with a large window of displayed items next to its wide door. A wooden sign with the business name and logo swings above the door. Inside the shop, there are display cases, the window case, and stands for displaying weapons or larger tools. The items in the shop are all for sale but are meant more as example pieces of the work offered since the runesmith prefers to work for clients who need specialty work or new things invented. The shop is manned by an eager young boy, who can explain the items in the shop or fetch 'Master Kilvin' if the customer wants to discuss having something made. Torin Kilvin himself spends most of his time in either his runeforge or the attached blacksmithy out behind the shop where the work of his hammer can be heard ringing most days. It is obvious to anyone used to shopping for runeforged material that the owner is just starting out with none of the grand decor or ostentation that is seen in runeforges that have been around for any real length of time. Though young, the smith is a serious and intentional man who knows his craft and loves it. His feelings for the work can be seen in the carefulness and detail of even the simplest of tools that come out of his forges.
The business was started with all his own investment money, in fact, it was nearly every penny he had managed to save, so he eats and lives by what he can now make in the business. There is no room for failure, lest he find himself with no home and no means to provide for himself, so he is doubly motivated to work hard and succeed.
After being in business alone for the first three seasons Torin expanded the business to include the alchemical lab and artificing forge. At the same time he hired his friend, Sivan to run the alchemical side of the business.
Business NPCs:
NPC Name: Renault
Location Link: Kilvin's Forge
Profession: Personal Mage
Base Wage: 12gp
NPC Skill Level: Journeyman
Skill Breakout:
Negation (Journeyman)
Kinetics (Journeyman)
Elementalism (Journeyman)
Description: Renault was chosen as a child to be trained as a Circle mage in Kalzasi. Due to his belligerent nature and unwillingness to follow the rules he was continuously censured by his teachers and, eventually, once he reached adulthood cast out of the school and Circle alike. Because of the reputation he had earned and because he had no references he was unable to find reputable work as a mage and was forced to work either at an extreme discount or working mundane jobs.
In Frost of 121 Torin Kilvin met him and, realizing that he was in a dire situation, started hiring him on for single jobs at his Runeforge. Though Renault's personality was an issue with most people, Torin was laid back enough, and kind enough to continue to hire him for enough work each season thereafter that the young mage was able to afford a place to live and take care of himself. In Searing of 122 the mage and Runeforger had formed enough of a working relationship that Torin asked to hire him outright.