Cartographer

Cartographer was a dead man who became an accidental addition to a Master Quell's Trygalle Trade Guild carriage crew.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.507 He had spent so long in Hood's realm he no longer remembered being alive and believed his name was "Cartographer". He was of desiccated appearance with a ghastly face, shrunken eyes, and flaking skin and wore rotted clothes.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.752 He liked patterns and could often be found collecting, identifying, and arranging objects into pleasing groupings.
Precious Thimble thought of him as an 'undead man'.The Crippled God, Chapter 2
==In Toll the Hounds==
Mappo Runt hired Master Quell and his crew to transport him from Darujhistan to Lether. The first portion of their journey brought them into Hood's realm where they were unexpectedly overwhelmed by a hostile army of the dead. Unable to find the exit gate, Quell hastily brought them to a small tropical island where it was first noticed their carriage had inadvertently picked up one of the dead in its wake. The dead man, who immediately began gathering and identifying seashells and piling coconuts into pyramids, introduced himself as Cartographer. When Quell thought to return him to Hood, Cartographer refused, claiming it was Hood who had commanded him to join the caravan. Quell argued that everyone riding the carriage had to work for the privilege, so Cartographer came up with a design using coconuts as flotation devices for retrieving shareholders from water mishaps.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.504-507Toll the Hounds, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.555-557
Master Quell took them off the island through Mael's realm, riding heaving waves amidst a furious storm.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.513-514Toll the Hounds, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.579-581Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.658-659 Arriving at the shores of a southern Genabackis island, the carriage raced to the top of an immense wave to crash into a cliffside village before it could be dashed onto the rocks below. The carriage was shattered, sending Cartographer, driver Glanno Tarp, and the horses careening away. The shareholders found themselves in Reach of Woe, a community of Wreckers plagued by a curse that turned their young women into bloodthirsty Tralka Vonan. After the Tralka Vonan were slain, Gruntle, Amby Bole, and Jula Bole volunteered to seek out Glanno Tarp, finding him lying in a corral with his legs broken. Nearby, they found Cartographer spitting out mud while still secured to a carriage wheel.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.659-664Toll the Hounds, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.740-742
Meanwhile Quell, Precious Thimble, and Mappo went to confer with the village Provost, Bedusk Pall Kovuss Agape, who they soon discovered was a Jaghut and the originator of the curse. After burying his wife years earlier, the Jaghut had been elected Provost by the village to ameliorate his grief. He soon fell in a love with a village girl who spurned his advances. In a rage, he placed a curse on the village that turned any woman of childbearing age who was without children into a Tralka Vonan. Recognising Precious Thimble, Sweetest Sufferance, and Faint were in danger, Quell allowed them to leave for the next village while the male shareholders repaired the carriage.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.742-749Toll the Hounds, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.820-821
The Provost's wife was not, in fact, dead. He had buried her alive near the cliff and she had been freed from her "grave" when it collapsed into the sea. She emerged from the water determined to destroy the village of wreckers, who preyed on passing ships. Quell saw the opportunity to negotiate an end to the curse which was almost upended when Jula and Amby Bole attacked the woman. Despite the terrifying magic unleashed against them, they brought her down and pinned her until Gruntle bargained for peace. The Jaghut agreed, but the Boles had to be threatened with decapitation by Gruntle's swords. The Jaghut said the curse would end when her husband was dead and she stalked off to confront him.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.750-756Toll the Hounds, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.823
Makeshift repairs completed, the male shareholders retrieved their female colleagues, but the Jaghuts' sorcerous battle soon threatened to engulf the entire island. Cartographer, who seemed to be becoming more clear-eyed, drew a map in the dirt that would serve as a gate to allow them to quickly escape. With misgivings, Quell invested it with his power to activate it.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.820-823 The gate brought them to the Warren inside Dragnipur where the army of Hood's dead fought a war with Chaos. Glanno slammed on the breaks sending the other shareholders tumbling into the mud. Quell immediately realised they had been duped as Hood chided Cartographer for being late. The god sent the Guild caravan away with Cartographer as their guide and Hood's Herald, Toc the Younger, following in their wake.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.957-959 They were last shown passing through the primeval world where Picker's spirit was lost.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.970
==In Dust of Dreams==
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==In The Crippled God==
He travelled with Precious Thimble, Sweetest Sufferance, Amby Bole, Mappo Runt, Gruntle, Setoc, Torrent, and the children Stavi, Storii, and Absi. When the group broke up after Olar Ethil claimed Absi, Cartographer choose to remain behind at the location of Jula Bole's barrow.
==Trivia==
Steven Erikson says, "Cartographer was fun [to write] – I like those characters, too. Droll and yet idiotic. He proved the perfect foil to the rest of the Guild."Ask Steven Erikson Your Toll the Hounds Questions! - See answer to question #23
==Notes and references==
Category:Males
Category:Trygalle Trade Guild