Editing The Sheltered Hand: Mama Nguyen (section)

==Background: Guild Merchant==
'''Caravanserai:''' Where the Merchant Guild travels, you can claim passage for yourself and your companions, be it in a caravan or on a river barge or a seafaring vessel. Because this is a favor, you have no say in available schedules and the like and you and those with you are expected to pitch in along the way.

'''Personality Trait:''' I always want to know how people think and what makes them tick.

'''Ideal:''' I am loyal to friends and companions more than to any dogma or principle.

'''Bond:''' I once cheated the exact wrong person in a trade and must work to ensure this individual never crosses paths with me or those I care about.

'''Flaw:''' When trading with someone in a position of power or influence, I can't resist trying to get the better of them . . . honestly or otherwwise.

'''Deities Observed:''' In her youth, Nguyen paid proper worship and service to '''''Asamit''''', but since making Pact with her Patron, her observences are more perfunctory and for the benefit of those who expect such from her than any lingering devotion. She knows now that there are beings older than the gods . . . beings who don't owe their power or origins to the fancies of superstitious mortals, beings who exist on their own outside of reality as the mortal realm understands it.

Nevertheless Nguyen maintains a friendly relationship with '''''Torosur''''', though her bond with the Changing God was never one of service per se. The traveller within her related to them, and the acquisition of her own powers of maleability after making te Pact only drew her closer to the capricious and maleable deity.

The other Gods she finds pretentious or passe - old playthings of children grown - but she nevertheless avoids overt disrespect of any of them.