Personality:
Louis is a rather..over the top persona. He aims to please and entertain in most everything he does. He's known to try a bit to hard with the ladies, but his advances are more comical than threatening, and the beatings he recieves for his interest are minimal. Lou's a fun person to watch from a distance or drink with. If you can tolerate him long enough, he is a good, loyal friend..if not just a bit eccentric.

He does have his moments of sadness but usually manages to pull himself away from them quickly.

Powers:
None, silly munnie.

History:
Louis was born in the City of Rome to a family of well-respected merchants. He grew up happy as an only child in his parent's shop, helping out as soon as he was old enough to stack items and carry a broom to sweep the floors. His family dealt in all manner of items in their general store. Preserved foods, handmade clothing, treats and snacks, trinkets and toys, even medicine. Occasionally they were able to strike a good deal with the raiders for much rarer items. Relics of days forgotten. Mysterious and fragile items..things that held close to the occult.

As a teenager, two things happened to Louis. His mother took ill and became bedridden, barely able to breathe. Just a few days after, a book was brought in. Spells listed within that promised things like eternal youth. Immortality. Love. And even magical cures for whatever ailed the body and soul. Lou eagerly poured over the book, memorizing every line, finding every provision he needed for the spell he hoped would cure his mother. The book was old, though. The print was difficult to read. Some of the items he'd never heard of and simply couldn't find. Still, he tried. Sitting at his mother's bedside, he recited every word. Did every motion. And he hoped.

Mrs. Glass passed less than a week later. Although he never said a word to anyone, he blamed himself for her death. The book was quickly sold in a desperate attempt to rid himself of the guilt that plagued him.

Mr. Glass was stricken with grief at his wife's passing and soon retired to simply live as a civilian within the City. Louis took over the store and did brilliantly with it. Despite his own misery his bright personality shone through. The shop was busy as ever. Louis had friends, and it seemed he'd even be building his own family soon. Around his twenty-first birthday he married a fellow Roman citizen, a beautiful and bright woman. For years, they tended the store in happiness.

Lou often made trips to outlying areas to gather items for the store. Far beyond the Cities was an area where all manner of herbs grew wild. Lou hitched up his cart and drove out, leaving the safety of the marked trails. Despite the danger he'd made the journey before without incidence. This time around, a lone wolf took a liking to his horse. The animal spooked and ran off the narrow path, wrecking the cart and knocking poor Lou to the ground. In a fleeting moment of consciousness he knew he was gravely injured, and that the wolf would soon be back for him.

Luckily, he awoke, eyes prying open just in time to see a woman peering over him. While he expected his body to ache, he didn't feel a thing. As his blurry eyes focused he realized the woman held a book. The same one he'd cursed and rid himself of those years ago. This woman had his book! Better than that, she knew what it meant. How to use it. As he laid in her home recovering, Louis begged the woman, Jenascia, to teach him how to use it. How to heal. How to manage the arts he'd wanted to understand so badly. She agreed, but on a condition. No one in the right mind would travel this far to see her, and very few would be willing to associate with a witch. In exchange for teaching him, Lou would take some of her concoctions and sell them to the general public. The trade was agreed upon and after two day's rest, Louis was on his way home with some very different cargo.

His visits to Jenascia became more frequent as his 'training' progressed. Almost once a week he would disappear to spend a day with her, practicing and learning. And more and more his wife suspected him of cheating on her. Finally, she'd had enough and confronted him. Louis, being an honest man, confessed to her exactly what he was doing. His wife decided that was the most pathetic cover for an affair and soon filed for divorce. The Glass family was by no means rich so in settlement, Lou's wife got half of Lou's possessions, his favorite horse..and the shop which had belonged to the Glass family for three generations. Beaten and now impoverished, Lou packed his few remaining belongings into his cart, hitched up his mule, and left the city to settle in Briar Village, hoping to start anew.

Two years after his divorce, Louis had managed to build a small shop in Briar, open four days a week to all who wish to see him. He deals primarily in medicines, tonics, cure-alls, herbs and the like. The other three days of the week, he loads up his merchandise and travels between the two Cities to make deliveries and sell items. Lou's become an impressive talker over the years and often stages presentations or runs gimmicks to attract business. In addition to his own skills as a salesmen, his mule Pascal is now trained to do tricks, along with the pack of dogs he now travels with. Unfortunately Lou is still an apprentice and many of his own items don't work as promised. When they work however, they work beautifully. Jenascia's items are far more reliable, and far more expensive. He'll do almost anything for a sale, and will do everything for a good friend.