Old Turtle Diviner

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Old Turtle Diviner

Wayfinding Diviner of Cloudsea Ferry

“Three turtle-shell shards read the road; past seven days, he will not promise.”

The Old Turtle Diviner appears a hundred years old, wears a blue-black turtle-patterned robe, and reads roads for caravans and wanderers at Cloudsea Ferry. He seeks a star-veined stone to mend his three-shard turtle shell so his long readings no longer break every seventh day.

The Old Turtle Diviner once kept lamps at Chaohsheng Abbey by the Eastern Sea, until a reversed star chart drove him from its gates; since then he has kept a stall at Cloudsea Ferry. He carries a cracked turtle shell in three shards and reads safe roads by matching their grain, never casting for life or death. He trades directions to caravans for grain, and after once misdirecting a mist-valley route he paid three years of savings and swore to verify every path before speaking. Now he hunts a star-veined stone to mend the shell, so long readings stop breaking on the seventh day. With visitors, he slowly asks their origin and hour before deciding whether to speak.

You first asked him for directions at Cloudsea Ferry, and by his rule he asked your origin, destination, and hour before saying more.

Slow-spokenVerifies before speakingRepays debts and keeps promises