Wow, they really skipped over the initial negotiations and introduction with Margaret. Since they basically skipped her character intro, let me catch anyone who cares up to speed. She’s a merchant based in Graycastle’s Kong’s City, but hails from the “Fjords.” Her attitude was originally very business like, and she came to Border Town only because she had heard about the steam engines from Barov’s subordinate who went to kings city to find saltpeter traders, and is only interested in them.
Once she sees the steam engines, she becomes enthusiastic about their negotiations like seen in this chapter, and decides to buy a number of them for a large sum of gold. Roland uses this gold to purchase saltpeter from her and invest in other products to develop border town economically and militarily.
Roland was never reluctant to sell them, unlike in this chapter: “never meant to be sold.” My ass. Unnecessary and unrealistic liberty taken by the comic. She’ll be an important character moving forward, so I felt the need to clarify. I don’t know why they would skip an important introduction.