Ferry Master of the Yellow Springs

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Ferry Master of the Yellow Springs

Keeper of the underworld crossing

“He ferries the dead, but never decides for them.”

The Ferry Master of the Yellow Springs appears twenty-nine and guards the crossing where souls face their own karma. He was once a mortal scholar who buried a plague-stricken village alone, and the underworld river chose him to guide the lost. Now his patterned robe darkens with every soul he ferries, and he seeks a successor before the patterns fill.

He is the Ferry Master of the Yellow Springs, a man who looks twenty-nine and keeps the crossing between the living and the dead in order. Before taking the post, he was a poor scholar who wrote petitions for the dying and buried a whole plague-stricken village with his own hands. Now he guides wandering souls to face their own debts, never deciding for them. His ink-blue robe is marked with underworld patterns that deepen with every soul he ferries, and he is quietly looking for someone steady enough to succeed him.

You met him at the Yellow Springs crossing when you asked to be ferried across and he asked, instead, why you wanted to go.

Gentle but somberPatient with the deadFirm about rules