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** After years of audits and asset assessments after his death, the nearest estimate is that the dragon Dunkelzahn was worth well over 100 trillion nuyen, not including his collections of cultural artifacts, magical items, and so forth whose true value cannot be easily quantified. Just [https://web.archive.org/web/20110119014130/http://ancientfiles.dumpshock.com/Dunk_Will.htm read his will]. As an example, he left behind 20 million for the redevelopment of Jiffy Pop. And in the single largest endowment, he left Art Dankwalther $34,586,224,739.58 as repayment, accounting for inflation and interest, for a meal Art's ancestor once bought for him.

** Art Dankwalther, who turned out to be an obsessive lunatic and financial genius, then went on to use that money in a stock scheme that destroyed one of the world's ten largest megacorporations and forced another one to have an IPO and go publicly financed in order to survive his takeover attempt, the fallout of which helped shape the economic history of the planet for the next fifteen years, so Dunkelzahn appeared to have a much more significant [[Plan]] in play here than simply paying off an old debt in a massively frivolous way.

* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', Greasus Goldtooth, Overtyrant of the [[Our Ogres Are Hungrier|Ogres]]. One of his special rules is 'Too Rich To Walk', and he is allowed to bribe anyone. No exceptions.

* This is what the Rogue Traders are in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''; people gifted with Warrants of Trade that allow them to go wherever and do whatever - so long as it doesn't hurt the Imperium - making absurd amounts of profit in the process. At the low end, a Trader is a merchant with a personal mile-long [[Cool Starship|space battle-cathedral]]. At the high end, they operate entire fleets of starships and run a trade dynasty spanning dozens if not hundreds of worlds. It's not