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Relying on wits, integrity, and loyal allies, he navigates financial institutions, legal tender, valuable commodities, and high-stakes transactions. The narrative explores how everyday economic struggles—hidden behind the scenes—drive outcomes and create trouble beyond what the hero anticipates, with later chapters expanding into securities, acquisitions, diligence, and dragon-economics.","The Dragon’s Banker By Scott Warren  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2019 Scott Warren All rights reserved.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nA Quick Note From The Author  \nFrom The Ballad of Alkazarian  \nChapter 1 – Kelstern Merchant Banking  \nChapter 3 – Legal Tender  \nChapter 4 – The Value of Ice  \nChapter 5 – Magic, of a Sort  \nChapter 6 – Gold and Silver  \nChapter 7 – The Jaws of the Mountain  \nChapter 8 – Alkazarian  \nChapter 9-Lineage  \nChapter 10 – Moving Money  \nChapter 11-Quicksilver  \nChapter 12 – Kuvtka’s Freight  \nChapter 13 – The Shipwright  \nChapter 14 – Ur ’s Gift  \nChapter 15 – Fost and Lavender  \nChapter 16 – Spardeep  \nChapter 17 – Securities  \nChapter 18 – Delayed Returns  \nChapter 19 – Early Closing  \nChapter 20 – Liquid Assets  \nChapter 21 – Riding the Hammer  \nChapter 22 – The Queen’s Grace  \nChapter 23 – The Living Fire  \nChapter 24 – Cooked Books  \nChapter 25 – A Fish out of Water  \nChapter 26 – Dragon-Eyes  \nChapter 27 – Cut Losses  \nChapter 28 – Hostile Takeovers  \nChapter 29 – A Short Reprieve  \nChapter 30 – Due Diligence  \nChapter 31-Compound Interest  \nChapter 32 – A Matter of Pride  \nChapter 33 – Burden of Obligation  \nChapter 34 – Reported Earnings  \nChapter 35 – The Economy of Dragons Chapter 36 – Hot Commodities  \nChapter 37 – Cold Storage  \nChapter 38 – Realized Gains  \nEpilogue  \nOther Works by Scott Warren  \nForego Quest  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nChapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nEpilogue  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nA Quick Note From The Author  \nIt gives me joy beyond measure that I can present you with these two stories.  \nThe Dragon’s Banker is the story of the unlikeliest of heroes mixed up in more conflicts than he realizes, and in more trouble than he can imagine. Our hero lacks the magic of the great wizards of his world, the brawn of its greatest warriors, and the guile of its greatest rogues. Instead he must make do with his wits, his integrity, and the loyalty of his comrades.  \nReaders of my other books, The Sorcerous Crimes Division, will recognize the shared world. But The Dragon’s Banker is completely removed from those stories by both time and distance, and written and as a standalone story. As ever, I’ve taken queues (read: stolen ideas) from my favorite authors and created an interlaced world to serve as a vehicle for the stories within. And The Dragon’s Banker is, at the time of this writing, both my favorite story that I’ve ever written and the closest you will likely come to my own unfiltered internal monologue in the narration of Sailor Kelstern.  \nI hope that you will find entertainment in his frustration.  \nI chose the subject matter that I did as a challenge to myself, and as a departure from my nominally violent, militaristic work. I wanted to write a true pacifist, a hero in a threatening fantasy world who could not (and would not) solve his problems through violence, and I also wanted a story that could explore the engines that made fantasy worlds tick, pick apart the minutiae of what goes on behind the scenes of everyday struggles of those far removed from the epic clashes of armies and wizards and queens.  \nForego Quest is something of a quirky story. It started out with a simple premise. What if you were the hero of not just one legend, but so many overlapping prophecies from every book, movie, video game, and song that it warped the very reality around you? What it ended up as was a love letter to all the legends we grew up on, with some not-so-subtle pokes at some of the common tropes along a hero’s journey. I hope it gives you a chuckle, and good luck spotting all the references.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFrom The Ballad of Alkazarian  \nInto the mountain’s burning heart Our champion descended His blade of gleaming silver shone His shield of gold defended  \nBut from the Alkazarian  \nThat god of greed and endless spite Came wrath alive and in his ra","cbCaijq9r7zjBGLB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijq9r7zjBGLB","pdf",1480316,5,253,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## A Quick Note From The Author\n## From The Ballad of Alkazarian\n## Chapter 1 – Kelstern Merchant Banking\n## Chapter 3 – Legal Tender\n## Chapter 4 – The Value of Ice\n## Chapter 5 – Magic, of a Sort\n## Chapter 6 – Gold and Silver\n## Chapter 7 – The Jaws of the Mountain\n## Chapter 8 – Alkazarian\n## Chapter 9 – Lineage\n## Chapter 10 – Moving Money\n## Chapter 11 – Quicksilver\n## Chapter 12 – Kuvtka’s Freight\n## Chapter 13 – The Shipwright\n## Chapter 14 – Ur ’s Gift\n## Chapter 15 – Fost and Lavender\n## Chapter 16 – Spardeep\n## Chapter 17 – Securities\n## Chapter 18 – Delayed Returns\n## Chapter 19 – Early Closing\n## Chapter 20 – Liquid Assets\n## Chapter 21 – Riding the Hammer\n## Chapter 22 – The Queen’s Grace\n## Chapter 23 – The Living Fire\n## Chapter 24 – Cooked Books\n## Chapter 25 – A Fish out of Water\n## Chapter 26 – Dragon-Eyes\n## Chapter 27 – Cut Losses\n## Chapter 28 – Hostile Takeovers\n## Chapter 29 – A Short Reprieve\n## Chapter 30 – Due Diligence\n## Chapter 31 – Compound Interest\n## Chapter 32 – A Matter of Pride\n## Chapter 33 – Burden of Obligation\n## Chapter 34 – Reported Earnings\n## Chapter 35 – The Economy of Dragons\n## Chapter 36 – Hot Commodities\n## Chapter 37 – Cold Storage\n## Chapter 38 – Realized Gains\n# Epilogue\n## Other Works by Scott Warren","[{\"question\":\"Who is the protagonist of The Dragon’s Banker?\",\"answer\":\"The story centers on Sailor Kelstern, head of Kelstern Merchant Banking, drawn into conflicts that exceed his expectations.\"},{\"question\":\"What kind of challenges does Sailor Kelstern face?\",\"answer\":\"He faces problems beyond simple heroics, including financial and transactional struggles such as legal tender, securities, diligence, acquisitions, and other high-stakes dealings.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author describe the story’s theme and approach?\",\"answer\":\"The author emphasizes a pacifist hero in a threatening fantasy world, exploring the mechanics behind fantasy conflicts through the economic engines and everyday behind-the-scenes struggles.\"}]","The Dragon’s Banker - 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