Connects to: 02.04, 29.07 and 36.04.02.
During misty nights a strange boat can be seen plying this stretch of the Witchwater (29.07): a cloaked figure poling a boat made of finger bones. The ferryman will take travelers across the river if they pay a finger and tell how they came by it. Freshly cut fingers and skeletal ones are both accepted, but those who lie or those who try to pay with a finger of a monkey (or other non-sentient species) will be cast into the water in the midstream.
Strangely enough, the ferryman has only ever been seen moving downriver.
Connections:
- Some say that the Ferryman was once a receptacle for depressing elven memories, much like Amalar the Immaculate is today (36.04.02).
- Some mountain shepherds cook fingers in every pot of stew (02.04). What’s the deal with fingers?
Hooks:
- Who is the ferryman? What does he (she? it?) want finger bones for?
- Does the ferryman carry anything in the boat except for travelers?
- How does the ferryman always move downstream but is always seen in this same stretch of the river?
