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In Order of Appearance:

The Women

Gwenaella

Adelie

Élise

Garcenda

Galiana

Kavundi

The Men

Wigandus

David

al Rashid

Jigme

Galiana dimly remembers fleeing the sack of Constantinople with her parents, but that is her last memory of them.  They died when their ship was attacked by pirates on the Black Sea.  Her treatment at the hands of the rough men despite her prayers and pleas convinced her that if there was a God, he had no love for her.  After being abandoned by them in a small river port where the Danube meets the Black Sea, she has pulled a living from the pockets of lonely men.