Qunsuanen (pronounced kuhn-SOO-ah-nehn) was a term in Tradertalk referring to a person being equipped properly so that bad luck didn't stick to the person. It was preceded by the qunsua ceremony, in which the person in question had her features lined by bright yellow paint. Chains on which charms decorated with yellow signs hung were place on the neck, wrists and ankles of the person. Even the Trader's staff was bound with yellow thread and the toe- and fingernails painted yellow. During the ceremony the caravan's or ship's mimanders prayed for the person being made qunsuanen and did purifying rituals. The mimanders would do so again after the reason for the ceremony passed. E. g. the qunsuanen had to follow its caravan ten days after the dealings with a trangshi was completed and had to w