Servant of Trade build

[WideAndNerdy]

I have a concept for a character who worships trade and economics. Not necessarily the deity of these concepts just the concepts themselves. It's inspired by Deep Space Nine and Nogs talk of the Great Material Continuum. My character is enamored of the way trade can bring materials and crafts from distant lands and take resources where they're most needed. He wants to facilitate this.

I was hoping to get some build advice. I know in theory I could play pretty much any race and class (Aside from maybe a Druid or a Cleric of an antithetical religion) and a priest of the god of commerce/trade/wealth or whatever would be an obvious choice but wanted to know if another class had better abilities for this.

[WideAndNerdy]

FYI, While this was inspired by a Ferengi, I'm not looking to make a caricature of greedy merchants here. My character is in it because he believes trade can bring peace and prosperity, he's not so much motivated by greed.

[Abraham spalding]

Dotting for later review.

Do you want magic and are you want worship related mechanics, or just a commerce focused character?

[ProfPotts]

PRD wrote:

As their powers are influenced by their faith, all clerics must focus their worship upon a divine source. While the vast majority of clerics revere a specific deity, a small number dedicate themselves to a divine concept worthy of devotion—such as battle, death, justice, or knowledge—free of a deific abstraction. (Work with your GM if you prefer this path to selecting a specific deity.)

... so you character can feel free to worship the abstract concept of trade and economics without the need for a deity... and even gain spells and other class features from his worship too! The Travel Domain has the Trade Subdomain in the APG - that may be a good place to start.

[Dave Justus]

Cleric (or other divine caster) of Adabar is the obvious choice in Golarion, and would represent the concept fairly well.

A Bard focused on Oratory would be interesting as well (Bards make great merchants) he could be either Golarion's Adam Smith or a disciple of some previous philosopher that developed similar concepts. If you want a bit more radical, replace Adam Smith with Ayn Rand.

Of course any character class can believe those things, but a Bard would have good abilities to popularize such notions.

[Avoron]

How about asking your GM if you can tweak the flavor of the Balanced Scale of Abadar prestige class so that it just requires a devotion to trade, rather than actually worshiping Abadar? If you can do that, I think that could be a very nice choice, maybe after taking six levels of oracle with the streets or intrigue mysteries.

[Abraham spalding]

Prophet of Kalistrade holds that if you follow their tenets you will become wealthy, and are considered big merchants in setting.