Marquis Harim Samadr

Marquis Harim Samadr
str 8 dex 7 end 8 int 7 edu 6 soc 13
Age 42, ex-Dilettante Blacksheep

Skills :
Carouse 4, Jack of All Trades 2, Melee (blade) 2, Admin 2, Persuade 1, Deception 1, Streetwise 1, Investigate 1, Computers 1, Pilot (small craft) 1, Animals 0, Trade 0, Advocate 0, Comms 0

Equipment:
Blade, Yatch x2, Ship Share

Homeworld: Kuzar

History:
Harim looks like the every man, perfectly average in every way. But he was lucky enough to have been born into one of the wealthiest and most eccentric families on Kuzar.

Samadr clan is large and spread wide across not only Kuzar but the whole sector where the family's luxury agricultural products fetch good prices all over the nearby worlds.

It is expected that family members participate in the business. Younger members are sent off world to do the hard and risky parts of the business. Harim was sent out with his cousins out into the universe to find new markets and exploit old ones.

Once away from Kuzar, Kuzari become free of the oppressing nature of their society and become wild with freedom, especially if they can afford it. Harim and his cousins were no different. They quickly forgot about developing new markets, and started to focus on some serious partying. Going from world to world, trying to enjoy what is best in each place.

Harim's first years as a full fledge dilettante he was brash, and arrogant. Proudly bragging about his conquests and daring do. During a party at the Duke's manse on Sentinel he casually insulted Baron Cozrin's wife. The Baron overhearing the insult, challenged Harim to a duel, to recover his honor. Harim was going to fight, but Cozrin is well known for easily taking offense and easily dispatching the offender. Harim lost considerable face with his peers after he had to back down and apologize to the Baron. He became unable to return to Sentinel for a long time after that.

Harim still wasn't ready to return to the family business. He made the rounds of the courts in the sector, going to parties and participating in the high drama that court society is. At times he actually became useful to others organizing parties or events. He also liked to help people in small ways. But once the parties faded, Harim usually moved on. It was during this time he became closer to his cousin Abrin, they both followed similar paths of debauchery. Harim wasn't quite the thrill seeker. As a party organizer he crossed roads with Skidmore Owen a sleaze ball that had to be watched because he would insinuate himself into circles, only to betray them with compromising evidence. This person would plague the rest of his life as patrons and friends fell victim to his petty blackmails.

At 26 Harim thought it was a good time to settle down and go back to the family business. Abrin did not want to return to work, so he arranged for Harim to take his post on Howotro. Harim became the shipping administrator on the Howotro branch SamadrAgricultural office. Abrin's neglect was so deep that an important part of the business was falling apart. Instead of getting help from the family, he sought help elsewhere to repair the damage. The branch was partnered with several ship owners, he sought their help to repair the damage with some success. Reporting Abrin would have been the smart thing to do, instead Abrin reported Harim as the one that had lost millions of credits on speculative trading. The family convened around the crisis to see who was at fault, Harim had to defend himself against his accuser Abrin and won. Abrin was kicked out of the family, Harim was just kicked out of the business.

Seeing that business was not his "core" competency Harim returned to his partying life style. He became quite the social operator, using his influence to advance himself and others around him. It was during this time that the complete break with his family occurred. He took in Alia a cousin that somehow escaped the clutches of Kuzar. Chased by her brothers, she needed shelter and Harim provided it.

At 34, family business long behind him, he becomes the consort of the older but still stunning Margaritte Susa, the head of the Tourist Association, the company that owns and operates hotels and other venues on Pikushlu.

Four years later he meets Count Davram Makinli, a powerful charismatic noble that changes his life. He also no longer relies on the family wealth that had supported him for so long. During this time his relationship with Margaritte Susa dissolves amicably, they see each other less and less as Harim becomes less involved in the social life of the sector.