Esclepius

Esclepius is the name of the Satrap who originally drew up the Bingtown Charter, giving the lands of the Cursed Shores to the Bingtown Traders and the Rain Wild Traders. Esclepius is also the name of the Satrap who had Serilla as a Companion of the Heart and whose son is Cosgo.

Satrap Esclepius the Former

An ancestor of Cosgo, Esclepius granted lands to outcasts and outlaws in the Cursed Shores in the form of the Bingtown Charter. These people settled in Bingtown eventually, while some of the people stayed along the Rain Wild River, becoming the Rain Wild Traders. This original charter is the agreement Bingtown Traders live by and contest with Satrap Cosgo during the events of the Liveship Traders trilogy.

Satrap Esclepius the Latter

The more recent Satrap Esclepius had a great passion for the religion of the White Prophets, and collected rare manuscripts and books of White prophesies. He often meditated on randomly selected passages from the books after asking a question to Sa - an activity which had become quite fashionable amongst the nobility of Jamaillia, until condemned by the priests of Sa as a gateway to idolatry.

As implied in a Fool's Fate epigraph (Ch. 21, In the Realm of the Pale Woman), Satrap Esclepius aided a 'young boy of strangely pale mien' in his quest to travel to the Six Duchies. The Satrap granted this boy, believed to be Beloved, free passage on one of the Chalced-bound slave ships.