Insightful Buyer Technique

Cost: 3m; Mins: Bureaucracy 3, Essence 1; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Social
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Smoothly managing the economy is vital to the management of a state. This Charm supplements a social or dramatic action to buy, sell or trade something wisely.

This Charm provides information on market values. To the extent that the Exalt understands what the target item, shipment, import or export is—and to the extent that he understands the relevant markets—this Charm gives the Solar a perfect knowledge of its value in those markets. This information is sometimes worth the Charm's cost in itself, but the main effect of this Charm and this information is to reduce external penalties applying to the mercantile action by an amount equal to the Solar's Essence. Whether the Solar is trying to buy a good sword for himself, outfit his army in exceptional steel, trade off yeddim for silk before plague kills the beasts or sell off the produce of his nation's labor, he can overcome penalties from scarcity, volatile markets and trade barriers.