Luigi Palmerio is a merchant from Tilea active in Altdorf. His emporium is in the Grandmarkt district.[1a]
Palmerio's Emporium[]
Luigi Palmerio sells imported Tilean luxury goods from a converted warehouse. On the main floor, Luigi warmly greets clients and tempts them with delicacies such as olive oil, citrus fruit, flatbread and saffron. The second floor is the clothing and armour department, where southern fashions are sold to patrons who "dare to be different." Exquisite paintings, statuettes, and ivory carvings are sold on the third floor. A knowledgeable Tilean clerk staffs each floor.[1a]
Luigi informs customers that the Palmerios are merchant princes with emporiums in every Tilean city. He is a self-proclaimed expert on southern culture; however, only the food he sells is genuinely southern. Luigi commissions his other wares from local Imperial tailors, sculptors, and smiths who copy replicas from painted images. Luigi has a merchant contact in Kemperbad who imports exotic foods, but Luigi is not a licensed merchant himself.[1a]
Luigi isn't really a Palmerio merchant prince, but rather a charlatan from the Border Princes, wanted for theft in Averheim and Ubersreik. The Tilean paintings that inspire his wares were stolen for him from noble mansions in the Empire, and his clerks are swarthy Altdorfers putting on (rather unfortunate) Tilean accents. Luigi has burglar contacts throughout Altdorf's underworld. If the City Watch ever becomes aware of his stolen merchandise, Luigi plans to accuse a scapegoat before hastily fleeing town.[1a]
Recently, a fence in the employ of Luigi Palmerio has convinced Joahn Trister, a true devotee of Jacopo Tarradasch, that he has a copy of a lost Tarradasch play, The Early Days of Didrick the Unjust. Of course, no such document exists, but Luigi would pay well for talented and discreet writers to produce a counterfeit.