First ExcellencyThe Gilded Coin insinuates herself everywhere men meet to transact commerce. She loans power to those who are sufficiently unscrupulous in trade to accept her bargains. She will always honor her exact commitments under whatever deals she strikes, but she will also always get her due. She is careful and deliberate in her own dealings, but is not above encouraging others to hasty agreements. She is the embodiment of greed, but while she will always ensure that her transactions are in her favor, she is not a con artist: Her deals will always grant favors commensurate with the obligations they impose on the other party. She is ostentatious and lavish in her displays of wealth, but discreet and secretive in its acquisition. In the end, however, she accumulates only for the sake of accumulation and grows only for the sake of growth. She is a spiritual emptiness, and those who find themselves ensnared in her plots become prisoners in a gilded cage of (seemingly) their own design.

The First Excellency of the Gilded Coin may be used to advance her interests in trade or in the acquisition and accumulation of something valuable. Pecuniary gains, favors, companions and even more esoteric assets are equally valid valuables for this purpose. However, once an asset is securely acquired it loses her interest and ceases to be a valid subject for the charm, until and unless circumstances threaten to take it away from her, or she employs it in a scheme for further acquisition. The Excellency may also be used to provide assistance to others in their endeavors, or to act on behalf of others, but only when commensurate remuneration has already been secured by binding agreement.

The Gilded Coin is not a being of industry, and her Excellency may never be used to directly create anything, even if she were to be appropriately compensated by a third party: She is strictly a middleman and enabler. Nor may it be turned to outright robbery, extortion or completely one-sided tributary arrangements: Any transaction facilitated, enforced or enabled by this Excellency must be voluntary, though the other party or parties need not be in their right mind when they accept the transaction.

Submerged in the Flow of Funds
Cost: 3m; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-Basic
Duration: Scene
Prerequisites: Essence 2, 1st Excellency of the Gilded Coin
For all the effort they direct to its acquisition, people pay remarkably little regard to the individual coin which moves through their place of business over the course of their trade. This charm lets the Infernal emulate the anonymity of the coin: In all places or situations where third parties are transacting commerce, it is impossible to notice the Infernal unless situational modifiers grant the observer a net bonus of +3. This is an Unnatural Illusion effect which may be resisted by the expenditure of 3 WP.
A second purchase at Essence 3 raises the required circumstance modifiers to +[Infernal's Essence] for all targets whose MDV the Infernal exceeds on a roll of (Manipulation + Bureaucracy) with [Infernal's Essence] bonus successes. A third purchase at Essence 4 permits the effect to be applied retroactively, making those who have already noticed the Infernal disregard her presence as unimportant and soon forget her.
Regardless of the level of circumstance modifiers required to notice the Infernal, open combat will always make the charm fail, as will anima displays which would cause other Stealth effects to fail. Likewise, addressing a person breaks the effect (but for that person only).
Design note: This charm is based loosely on the Solar stealth tree (p. 230 of the core rulebook), with the effects marked up slightly to compensate for the imposed domain restriction.
Stamp 1: Misanthrope
Stamp 2:

No Wall So High
Cost: 5m, Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-Basic
Duration: Scene
Prerequisites: Essence 3, Submerged in the Flow of Funds

Coin is welcome everywhere commerce is freely transacted, and so the Infernals of the Gilded Coin may move freely in places of commerce. This charm creates an Unnatural Illusion effect, giving onlookers (whose MDV is less than the Infernal's successes on a roll of (Manipulation + Socialize) with [Essence] bonus successes) the impression that the Infernal is wholly within her right to be precisely where she is and do precisely what she is doing, so long as her actions and presence fall within the purview of the 1st Excellency of the Gilded Coin. This effect differs from the effect of the charm's prerequisite in that the Infernal is free to engage in conversation and draw attention to herself in other ways without breaking the illusion. Indeed conversationalists may divulge confidential information since they will believe that the Infernal has every right to ask (the charm does not force victims to believe that they have any obligation to provide answers, but this distinction is lost on all but the most security-conscious of individuals). Without the use of other magic, open combat and excessive anima displays still break the effect.
This charm and its prerequisite may be active at the same time, in which case the Infernal is both unnoticed or forgettable and entitled to be where she is.


No Perfidity So Low
Cost: 4m; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-Basic, Stackable
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisites: Essence 2; 1st Excellency of the Gilded Coin

There is nothing money cannot buy, and there is nothing which cannot be sold for money. The most sacred of beliefs as well as the basest of debaucheries are available in the market for those who pay the price they command.
This charm permits the Infernal to discover the closest location where she may buy or sell a good or service, as well as the customary price it commands in that market. Each activation covers only one good or service and gives information about only the closest market. But multiple concurrent activations of the charm are possible, each either covering a new good or service or providing information on the next closest market. The charm will fail to find markets to which an Infallible Messenger would be unable to make a round trip (e.g. behind the Seal of Eight Divinities).
The price need not be denominated in currency - it may be that "a dragon of hobgoblins led by a renowned cataphract" is only available to those who will trade a tortured cat's will to live to a fairie noble, or that a Marukani horse may be sold for the hand of a maiden in marriage.
The Infernal cannot specify the provenance of goods and services commissioned - the Gilded Coin cares not a whit wherefrom the goods flow, so long as the goods keep flowing.
Design notes: Note that the more unique or difficult to obtain the goods or services looked for, the less liquid the markets for them are likely to be. "1000 straight swords" is relatively straightforward - most nations have a more or less liquid arms market. "The hand of Peleps Kakita Jiayin in marriage," however, is liable to completely accurate yet wholly unreliable results, because the result will vary depending on which reasonably senior member of House Peleps or the Scarlet Dynasty is closest when the charm is invoked.
Stamp 1: Misanthrope
Stamp 2:

The Ties That Trade Ties
Cost: 1m; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Shaping
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Essence 2, 1st Excellency of the Gilded Coin

Fleets and legions may build empires, but it is cogs and caravans that bind them together. As commerce binds strangers together even across vast distances, so does this charm bind those who transact business with the Infernal.
Activating this charm supplements the closing of a deal. It requires that the Infernal present her trade partner with a piece of brass jewelery as part of the agreement. As the partner closes the deal, the Infernal infuses the brass jewelery with her vitriolic Essence. So long as it remains worn, carried or held by the other party to the deal it functions as an Arcane Link to the Infernal, and all attempts by the holding party to call the Infernal's attention in prayer are automatically successful if it is used as a focus for the prayer (though this charm does not provide any way for the Infernal to respond). However, it also provides the Infernal an Arcane Link to the holder.
More than one deal may be closed over the same piece, and they need not all be closed at the same time, however the Infernal and the other party must be able to communicate in more or less real time to do so (the only exception to this rule being agreements which allow for unilateral action (e.g. renewal/extension of a temporary arrangement), which the party so entitled may perform on his own).
On the second consecutive new moon in which the item is not in the possession of the other party to the agreements pledged to it (whether because it leaves his possession or because he ceases to be bound by the agreements in question), it will dissolve to saltpeter dust. Each day of Calibration is counted as a separate new moon for this purpose.
Attempts to learn the full nature of the device suffer external penalties equal to the Infernal's permanent Essence. Attempts by third parties to use the Arcane Link to the Infernal suffer the same penalty.
A second purchase at Essence 3 extends the charm to enable it to apply to written proposals as well as ones transacted in person. Used in this fashion, the cost increases to 2m, the Duration changes to Variable and the Shaping effect persists so long as the negotiations remain ongoing. The charm can be used in this manner to place additional agreements upon the object as well, in which case the ongoing Shaping effect applies to the communication suggesting the amendments or additions (since no brass item is actually shipped in that case).
A third purchase at Essence 4 permits the Infernal to infuse the brass ornament in a subtly different way, permitting all bearers of items created by this charm (even if employed by different Infernals) to recognize the bearer as if he were under an ongoing Obvious effect.
Because this charm uses Essence-manipulation techniques stolen from the Ebon Dragon himself to conceal the nature of the artifact, the Shadow of All Things will instantly pierce the disguise upon even the most casual observation. The Ebon Dragon (but only the Ebon Dragon and any entity it directly and personally possesses) treats all such items as Obvious per the preceding paragraph and is granted the Infernal's Essence in bonus successes to any attempts at using the artifact instead of the penalty. The Gilded Coin is unaware of this vulnerability.
Should it be relevant, the ring counts as a 1-dot Supernatual Wonder.
Design Notes: Note that no provision is made in the charm for premature termination of the effect by the Infernal. The Gilded Coin expects those who learn her Charms to show due care to such matters themselves. Likewise, nothing in the charm itself compels the subject to actually carry the item. This matter as well is left to the due diligence of the Infernal making the agreement.