tamadrez

A Gorathi fortress carved into the central Freedom Mountains, overlooking the Slaver's Coast and the shipping lanes that connect the slave ports to Divinity Passage.

A Tamadrezan smuggler-captain who carries escaped slaves north through the one stretch of sea no Gorathi ship will enter: Agtakkeri's waters.

The Flayed Banner.

The Gorathi port-boss who runs one of the Slaver's Coast extraction ports as a clerk runs a warehouse, treating occupation as paperwork.

Kassander Volso's chief broker at Slavewatch, who keeps the bribe-ledger that decides which passes are watched and which careers end.

The closest thing the Tamadrezan north has to a resistance leader, holding a rising back until a Gorathi succession crisis opens the door.

Tribune of Slavewatch, the corrupt officer who polices the slave passes by selling passage through them to everyone at once.

Harbor-Reeve of Nadang and the Tamadrezan end of Slavewatch's navigation-fee system. Secretly, the Moon Road's single most important asset.

A Slavewatch lieutenant who runs his patrols by the book and empties the passes of the people his Tribune has sold.

A creole broker out of Nadang who keeps the bribe economy running and makes a practice of never asking where the cargo goes.

A slaver captain working the Slaver's Coast circuit, twice sunk by the dragon Agtakkeri and superstitious about every dawn at sea.