Merchant Prince. Born in slavery, Jerubel has risen to become the wealthiest man in The City. His ships sail the world, and in every major city there is a warehouse with his symbol - a globe in a man's hand. Jerubel has a reputation as an unemotional businessman, and has married off several of his daughters (and their impressive dowries) to associates to secure their allegiance to him. At this time, Jerubel is negotiating with at least two of the Noble Families over marriage to his oldest son - he is holding out for his son to be granted status as a Notable in return for bailing out the families. His patience with this is wearing thin, though, and he has taken the time to buy up the debts of both families and to collect blackmail information about them. Jerubel is determined to achieve Noble status, if not for himself then for his children. Once a Noble dismissed him as "a jumped-up slave with delusions of adequacy", he spent a year methodically destroying him and his family, finally having the Noble kidnapped and sold into slavery far to the east. From time to time, he travels to the brothel in which the Noble works to remind him of the importance of being polite.