Layridin concept sketches from work. First, a wealthy, west-lander Ploverlor merchant intended to show up a couple times in the Layridin Journeys comic. She organized and runs a caravan that, at various points, shares a route with Chet's merchantile route. Though not affiliated with the Merchant's Guild, she is on good terms with them and follows their rules of business.
Then, a pair of Engsami hired by the Caravaneer as guards. Former bandits, the two eventually decided that it would far more economical to hire themselves out to work FOR the merchants they were robbing, rather than assaulting them (they came to this conclusion when the Caravaneer offered them a large salary to protect her from their former compatriots instead). They travel with the caravan as permanent members and in chapter 2 serve to warn Aldwin of the dangers of traveling the roads alone.