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There could be a discrete business arrangement between our two characters which allows your character access to some higher grade stuff my character sells but for a steep cost to whoever it's getting sold to. Chances are the buyer is only going to Cin because he/she can't get the weapons any other way.

Possibly. Gotta help the family right? Btw what do you mean by "higher grade" given the time period?
Also people go to Cin because guns arn't his only repetoir,

Given that this is 1500s Renaissance time, guns are still a very, very new thing and thus would only be used in limited numbers by main armed forces because of how expensive they would be. Enter my character. He makes guns not only operate smoother but also more affordable as well. This means that armed forces can fully equip themselves with guns and allows some of the merchants to defend themselves with guns too. Weapons like swords, bows, spears, etc. are still very prominent and relied upon by the general population.

That's just looking at it from an economics standpoint. There's also political standings where a local official in charge could ban the purchase of a firearm by the general population, including merchants operating there. Enter your character. He could sell these weapons to said opressed merchants.

The guns used would be muskets and early cannons. Rifled bores would still be just a bit outside of reach. So even the guns have limited effectiveness. Plate armor can still block a musket ball to the chest, making the use of the more primitive weapons still paramount. In comes my character again. He doesn't just sell guns. He also sells swords and whatnot that are more durable and stay sharp longer without sacrificing on weight. These come at a somewhat premium price, however. Due to the markets and how said weapons have been forged by oh so many before and currently, these higher grade weapons do and should cost a pretty penny.

Given that this is 1500s Renaissance time, guns are still a very, very new thing and thus would only be used in limited numbers by main armed forces because of how expensive they would be. Enter my character. He makes guns not only operate smoother but also more affordable as well. This means that armed forces can fully equip themselves with guns and allows some of the merchants to defend themselves with guns too. Weapons like swords, bows, spears, etc. are still very prominent and relied upon by the general population.

That's just looking at it from an economics standpoint. There's also political standings where a local official in charge could ban the purchase of a firearm by the general population, including merchants operating there. Enter your character. He could sell these weapons to said opressed merchants.

The guns used would be muskets and early cannons. Rifled bores would still be just a bit outside of reach. So even the guns have limited effectiveness. Plate armor can still block a musket ball to the chest, making the use of the more primitive weapons still paramount. In comes my character again. He doesn't just sell guns. He also sells swords and whatnot that are more durable and stay sharp longer without sacrificing on weight. These come at a somewhat premium price, however. Due to the markets and how said weapons have been forged by oh so many before and currently, these higher grade weapons do and should cost a pretty penny.

Yeah we'll probably be between matchlocks and snaplocks or something from a firearms perspective...

And I'm not entirely sure how a single individual can control a weapons empire at this time though, considering that things like weapons technology were generally pretty darn nationalised until even recently (ie WWI and such).  Royal armouries generally controlled weapons flows, and there wasn't really much of a "production line" or any similar concept, so every weaponsmith had to be insanely skilled, primary innovations related to arms/firepower occurred in these centres, etc.  Now there was trade, but generally the idea of an inventor also doing a business is a much more modern (read: industrial) notion.  States were way more into keeping new developments that were extremely powerful as state secrets/in their own hands.  Even Glass was like solely a Venetian thing for a long time...

Now tulips, those are a genuine trade item of the 17th century! 

Also this post is to signal that I will also create an application in the near(ish) future probably this weekend

Oh also question @Laurentus Wintreath is a colonial power I'm assuming?  Like Spain/Portugal/Netherlands/France/UK, etc?

Do also remember that a person skilled with a bow or sword will be able to wield it far more deadlier than guns in this tech era. Guns were unwieldy, slow, loud, released smoke, and prone to failure. Their main advantages at first were the shock power (people/horses were untrained to deal with guns), the fact that you could arm many people quickly with them without taking years of training, and the fact that they worked very well in formation.

Do also remember that a person skilled with a bow or sword will be able to wield it far more deadlier than guns in this tech era. Guns were unwieldy, slow, loud, released smoke, and prone to failure. Their main advantages at first were the shock power (people/horses were untrained to deal with guns), the fact that you could arm many people quickly with them without taking years of training, and the fact that they worked very well in formation.

Agreed.  Not to mention, a crossbow can penetrate most armor, and the bolts can have poison put on the tip.  Firearms of this time period, and even now, cannot have poisoned ammo.

Agreed.  Not to mention, a crossbow can penetrate most armor, and the bolts can have poison put on the tip.  Firearms of this time period, and even now, cannot have poisoned ammo.

Well, not legally (internationally speaking, because of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons) or cost-effectively against infantry, but DU particulate matter originating from American APFSDS tank shells are certainly poisonous.
For those criticizing poisoning bolts - I'll note that one of the most cost-effective ways they had to do that was to just stick the arrowheads in shit.

Incidentally, I'm still waiting to know about any naming themes I should go with, because I really don't want to be Aerith Dy'el'Naeron while everyone else is Bob Smith.

Each House would probably have their own naming convention, as I imagine Veleria's to be Latin, or more precisely Roman.

Religion can possibly play into it, but I'm not sure if there's a central religion. I haven't thought that far, to be honest.

Each House would probably have their own naming convention, as I imagine Veleria's to be Latin, or more precisely Roman.

Religion can possibly play into it, but I'm not sure if there's a central religion. I haven't thought that far, to be honest.

Roman is Latin.

Each House would probably have their own naming convention, as I imagine Veleria's to be Latin, or more precisely Roman.

If it's Latin, it's bad Latin, since we can't really use "Valerius" for proper grammar.

Each House would probably have their own naming convention, as I imagine Veleria's to be Latin, or more precisely Roman.

Religion can possibly play into it, but I'm not sure if there's a central religion. I haven't thought that far, to be honest.

Roman is Latin.

Language wise, yes, but if we're referring to naming as a cultural thing, Roman would be more accurate. Latin can refer to people speaking Romance languages (such as in Latin America), and also the region/tribe which Rome subsumed early in its history.

I'm gonna go with something Celt-ish then.
Peasantry and guildmen, unite!
Cast out the feudal nobility and seize your freedoms for yourself!
And then de facto enshrine the merchant class as the new nobility by virtue of wealth instead of blood, but we won't talk about that.

EDIT: putting the signup here rather than double-posting

Name: Finglas 'Forktongue', Reeve-Prince of Firdun
Age: 47
Gender: Male
Skills: Civil Administration, Demagoguery, and Espionage
Bio:
Firdun's fortunes have long been assured by virtue of its commanding position; sitting at the southernmost point of the Androx Peninsula, it is a major player in the trade of the southern coast, with ships moving through its port even along the River Maltos to Frostlake itself. The wealth that passes through the city, its relatively secluded position, and the religious differences the city has compared to its neighbors have led over the years to a greater degree of autonomy among the lower classes in the city than perhaps anywhere else, and served as the root of a nascent movement towards self-rule by its freemen. In a move to stave off a massive peasant rebellion decades earlier, this culminated in a royal decree that the city would henceforth be a Free City, whose reeve would be elected by acclamation, not appointed - and which has subsequently led to a lively political life, whose violence has largely been directed inwards at the city's great families, and not outwards at the nobility.

This, however, changed with the election of Finglas to the reeveship. The thirdborn son of one of the most prolific shipping magnates in the southern reaches, his family's almost obscene wealth, coupled with the gift of the gab and a devious insight into the slights and privations endured by the city's freemen leading to a nearly preternatural gift for rabblerousing, combined to pave the way for election into ever-greater roles in the city's government, culminating in his ascension to the reeveship two decades earlier.
Since then, he has aggressively expanded the city's influence, going so far as to annex the lands north as far as the Isthmus of Andras, and building the Long Walls across it, ostensibly merely to mark the extent of Firdun's expansionist fervor, but which has been more cynically viewed as the first steps towards rebellion.
Certainly the cynical perspective has been advanced - three years ago, he proclaimed himself first of the 'reeve-princes', claiming himself the equal to any of Wintreath's princes save by blood, a move which has garnered no small amount of scorn from the nobility (tempered from violence only by the threat of withdrawal of financing and guildman strikes), but which has inspired similar movements in Wintreath's other great cities, and culminated in his proclamation of a United Free Cities, an organization by which the wills of the people might be heard just as loudly as that of the nobility.

OOC notes:
I use 'princes' not in the sense of 'prince of the blood', but rather 'ruler of a principality', as in the sense of Princes of the Holy Roman empire.
I have done my best to adhere to Weissreich's map, although to fit the Celtic flavor I was going with, I changed the name of the port-city while keeping the original name to describe the peninsula it sat upon.
I also straight-up made up history, and if this flies in the face with as-yet-unwritten canon I can rewrite it whenever. But I tried to create a practical grounds by which the merchant class might rise up into a practical political entity in the face of the entrenched nobility, and hopefully I've done so.

I wouldn't be opposed to the history you've written here, Doc, but do wonder whether something like this wouldn't be more interesting to explore as a reaction to a vacancy on the throne.

I considered that, but I didn't want it to look like it was an opportunistic attempt at independence, rather than just a 'we  are regime loyalists and all, but we want political power too' kind of thing.

Hmm. Fair enough.

Agreed.  Not to mention, a crossbow can penetrate most armor, and the bolts can have poison put on the tip.  Firearms of this time period, and even now, cannot have poisoned ammo.

Well, not legally (internationally speaking, because of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons) or cost-effectively against infantry, but DU particulate matter originating from American APFSDS tank shells are certainly poisonous.
For those criticizing poisoning bolts - I'll note that one of the most cost-effective ways they had to do that was to just stick the arrowheads in shit.

Such law didn't come into effect until more recently. It was still perfectly acceptable to poison arrowheads and crossbow bolts back in the Renaissance. And yes, sticking the arrow in literal feces was very effective and cost nothing to do.

And I'm not entirely sure how a single individual can control a weapons empire at this time though, considering that things like weapons technology were generally pretty darn nationalised until even recently (ie WWI and such).  Royal armouries generally controlled weapons flows, and there wasn't really much of a "production line" or any similar concept, so every weaponsmith had to be insanely skilled, primary innovations related to arms/firepower occurred in these centres, etc.  Now there was trade, but generally the idea of an inventor also doing a business is a much more modern (read: industrial) notion.  States were way more into keeping new developments that were extremely powerful as state secrets/in their own hands.  Even Glass was like solely a Venetian thing for a long time...

I see where you're going to with this, but for the sake of interesting plots, I plead the BS flag to not be raised. Also, at no point did I advocate the selling of guns to standard people. That's specifically for armed forces and possibly wealthy merchants as well.

Do also remember that a person skilled with a bow or sword will be able to wield it far more deadlier than guns in this tech era. Guns were unwieldy, slow, loud, released smoke, and prone to failure. Their main advantages at first were the shock power (people/horses were untrained to deal with guns), the fact that you could arm many people quickly with them without taking years of training, and the fact that they worked very well in formation.

I'm well aware of this. That's why in the early days of guns soldiers were often equipped with both musket and sword.

Agreed.  Not to mention, a crossbow can penetrate most armor, and the bolts can have poison put on the tip.  Firearms of this time period, and even now, cannot have poisoned ammo.

I already explained that muskets would be blocked by armor. They're not the "be all, end all" weapons.

Such law didn't come into effect until more recently. It was still perfectly acceptable to poison arrowheads and crossbow bolts back in the Renaissance.

Yeah. I know. I was merely pointing out that you absolutely could theoretically have poisoned ammo in the modern day. It would be expensive and illegal, but it's doable.