Numa - Mistress of Moonstone Castle

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Please, let me come with you, away from this awful place!

Background

Numa is a Zakaran: she is small (5'1") and has wavy black hair, deeply tawny skin, and brown eyes. To Zakaran eyes, she is pretty enough, but a Northerner would find her either very ugly or beautifully exotic, depending on viewpoint.

She got the Grand Caliph to recognize the claim of her unborn child for inheritance, so her daughter is now hieress to the Moonstone Castle. This child was born a daughter, Amlah bint Numa.

History:

Numa is Gedron's current infatuation, a dancer from a tavern in Sook Oda. She thinks that Gedron is very handsome and was impressed with his wealth when he came to her old workplace, the Three Diamonds Tavern, so it did not take much to persuade her to come with him to his "palace" (as he called it). She was told that she would be mistress of the Moonstone Fortress, but the reality is quite different. Gedron often beats her, she has no servants (as promised) unless she can persuade one of the other skivvies to lend a hand, and the fortress is dirty and unpleasant to live in, even without Gedron's attentions. She would happily leave, but she knows that a clean getaway is nearly impossible and that if she failed in her attempt, Gedron would cheerfully (literally!) kill her, for she knows too much. She bides her time and amuses herself by exploring the fortress when Gedron and the others are at sea.