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<blockquote data-quote="jayoungr" data-source="post: 8087709" data-attributes="member: 6702445">My quick thought is that it could be something to do with inheritance.1.&nbsp; Keltos might need an heir to stave off a claim to something of his by a rival within his family.&nbsp; For example, some relative is trying to muscle in on his commercial empire, and Keltos wants to squash him.&nbsp; Maybe he has a nephew who keeps throwing his weight around as the obvious heir to Keltos's fortune, trying to get the underlings loyal to him as their eventual master.&nbsp; Maybe Keltos even suspects the nephew is plotting to poison him and take over.&nbsp; Or the nephew keeps borrowing money on the expectation of his inheritance (and obviously will run everything Keltos has built into the ground as soon as he gets his hands on it).2.&nbsp; Maybe it turns out the scoundrel, the girl's father, wasn't a mere nobody--he was the black sheep son of some important family.&nbsp; That means that the girl could be in line to inherit something important from him--and as she's just a child, her loving grandfather would of course take over the stewardship of whatever it is until she's old enough.&nbsp; Purely out of the goodness of his heart, of course.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jayoungr, post: 8087709, member: 6702445"] My quick thought is that it could be something to do with inheritance. 1. Keltos might need an heir to stave off a claim to something of his by a rival within his family. For example, some relative is trying to muscle in on his commercial empire, and Keltos wants to squash him. Maybe he has a nephew who keeps throwing his weight around as the obvious heir to Keltos's fortune, trying to get the underlings loyal to [I]him[/I] as their eventual master. Maybe Keltos even suspects the nephew is plotting to poison him and take over. Or the nephew keeps borrowing money on the expectation of his inheritance (and obviously will run everything Keltos has built into the ground as soon as he gets his hands on it). 2. Maybe it turns out the scoundrel, the girl's father, wasn't a mere nobody--he was the black sheep son of some important family. That means that the girl could be in line to inherit something important from [I]him[/I]--and as she's just a child, her loving grandfather would of course take over the stewardship of whatever it is until she's old enough. Purely out of the goodness of his heart, of course. [/QUOTE]

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