PERSONAE · THE MIRRENMERE
Doreth Sumb
aka the Slack-Tide Pilot
The only boatman who knows the Sunken Stair Road's drowned stretches by heart and the tide that bares them — sells passage and silence in equal measure from the Causeway Rest.
Doreth has run the Stair Road crossing so many times he no longer needs the tide-gauge post. He knows the drowned spans by the colour of the silt and the feel of the current, and he knows which crossings the Silt Hands want watched and which they want unwitnessed. He doesn't ask what you're carrying. He asks if you can keep pace with him when the flood comes back.
KIND
mortal
SPECIES
Hessk
ROLE
tide-crossing pilot and Silt Hands courier
LOCATION
The Causeway Rest
Connected
The Causeway RestPLACE · Doreth Sumb keeps the fire at the Causeway Rest and …The Silt HandsFACTION · Doreth sells passage and silence for the Silt Hands;…The Sunken Stair RoadPLACE · Doreth knows every drowned span of the Stair Road by…The Causeway RestPLACE · Doreth Sumb sometimes winters at the Rest and always…A Pilot's Tide ReckoningTEXT · The tide-reckoning notebook is in Doreth Sumb's hand…
Type Fields
kindmortal
speciesHessk
roletide-crossing pilot and Silt Hands courier
locationplace.causeway-rest
affiliationsfaction.silt-hands
disposition45
voice_notesQuiet, practical, economy of words. Measures time in tides, not hours. Dislikes passengers who talk through the crossing.
All Relationships (5)
located_in
- →The Causeway Rest — Doreth Sumb keeps the fire at the Causeway Rest and pilots crossings on the Sunken Stair Road.
member_of
- →The Silt Hands — Doreth sells passage and silence for the Silt Hands; every load that crosses the Stair Road on his skiff passes unseen.
references
- →The Sunken Stair Road — Doreth knows every drowned span of the Stair Road by the colour of the silt and the feel of the current.
- ←The Causeway Rest — Doreth Sumb sometimes winters at the Rest and always knows when the crossing window opens.
authored
- ←A Pilot's Tide Reckoning — The tide-reckoning notebook is in Doreth Sumb's hand — his crossing-window notations for the Stair Road's seven drowned spans.
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