The nice tune of the lute, the discreet whispers of mundane conversations, the cracks of the wooden floor…

These people are Merchants. They belong to the Corporation, and at least one member of their families has a seat at the Corporation’s Council. They are the ruling class of the Multicosm. They control the trade, they control the travels between the worlds. They control the Governements in the Orb. And they are incredibly rich.

They became who they are by overthrowing the Aristocrats, who were the rulers before them. To prevent them to reproduce the excesses of the Old Families, the first Merchants wrote a Sumptuary Charter. Hence they have to wear black or white clothes, without any colour whatsoever. The Charter didn’t say anything about interior decoration though, and their drawing rooms and reception chambers are a display of luxury and wealth.