Bagwell Thomkin
Bagwell Thomkin
Bagwell grew up in Eastgate, the middle son of a middle-class carpet merchant. Life came easy to him, resulting in a laconic, friendly demeanor and an optimistic outlook that sometimes leaves him oblivious to the darker natures of those he encounters. Although he was never interested in inheriting his mother’s business, he did spend a great deal of his youth helping her run her shop, and developed a fine mind for accounting and business management before he reached maturity. Today, though, Bagwell’s greatest passion is flying kites, particularly the latest models purchased from Vittar Corusec at the Silk Palace in the Wise Quarter. Ever since he was a child, Bagwell’s weekends have been filled with pleasant strolls through the city’s parks, with a colorful and complex kite sweeping through the air above him. It was on one such excursion a few years back that he met the gnome who would become his husband—Darelli Gammathumalshire. Bagwell swiftly fell for Darelli’s charm and wit, encouraging him to turn his own hobby—coin collecting—into a business. Together they opened Concurrent Currency, in the Dock District, shortly after their marriage about 20 years ago. While Darelli runs the counter and deals with customers, Bagwell minds the back office and handles some of the shop’s larger transactions, particularly large-scale currency exchanges with wealthy nations like Druma. To this end, he has developed a friendly working relationship with some of Absalom’s most influential Kalistocrats, and counts Ilrava Drogand, co-founder of the Prophet’s Academy, as a personal friend. Ilrava thinks Thomkin (and, eventually, his apparently less-interested husband) would be a perfect candidate for indoctrination into the cult of Kalistrade, but while Bagwell listens attentively to her proselytization he does so only because he is polite. While Drogand has not yet converted Bagwell to the doctrine of her homeland, Bagwell has managed to convert her to the cult of the kite, and the two now often meet together to chat while flying their own highly specialized and very expensive kites in some of the city’s most idyllic open spaces.
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