Boatfinder

Boatfinder was a warrior, shaman, and guide of a clan of the Anibar Tribe, who inhabited the Olphara Peninsula to the west of the Kokakal Sea and Seven Cities.The Bonehunters, Chapter 12, US HC p.390
Samar Dev described him and the other Anibar as small, wiry men whose murky-colored skin was covered in ritual scarring. Their lower jaws and upper lips were covered in some grey substance that made it appear as though they were bearded, while their dark eyes were surrounded by light blue and grey colored elongated circles. They wore tanned hides and had strips of fur fastened around the upper arms. Armed with spears, axes and knives, they also wore, as ornament, disks of hammered copper, seemingly meant to show the phases of the moon. 
Boatfinder himself wore a necklace made from the vertebrae of a large fish from which dangled a black copper disk encircled by gold reminiscent of a total eclipse.The Bonehunters, Chapter 12, US HC p.389
==In The Bonehunters==
Karsa Orlong and Samar Dev travelled northwest from UgaratThe Bonehunters, Chapter 5, US HC p.156 and eventually found themselves crossing a land of evergreen forests, exposed bedrock, and scattered lakes to the west of Yath Alban.The Bonehunters, Chapter 12, US HC p.389
Boatfinder, leading a group of Anibar, the indigenous people of the area, approached Karsa and Samar - who noticed them before Karsa did. He proceeded to kneel before Karsa, holding out, as a gift, a 'courage brand' (i.e., the penis bone) of a great male bhederin. After being told by Karsa to stand up and to give his name, Boatfinder did so and then told Karsa, whom he called 'Deliverer of Destruction', that his coming had been foretold and that he was needed to help the Anibar clans deal with an ongoing invasion of foreigners (whom Boatfinder called 'revenants'), who had arrived by ship and who had been preying on the Anibar clans to the north, killing many kin of Boatfinder and of his clan members. He estimated that there were about 240 of the invaders involved, who seemingly killed out of anger only and who were impossible to appease. Karsa agreed to help the Anibar clans with these foreigners, but insisted that Boatfinder, himself, be their guide and that they leave for the north immediately — demands to which the Anibar leader reluctantly agreed.The Bonehunters, Chapter 12, US HC p.389-392
On the long, difficult trek north, Boatfinder told Samar Dev about the trail markings that he was using to guide their journey, as well as about the legends, customs and history of the Anibar, which included information about the Iron Prophet, King Iskar Jarak, whom the Anibar clans deeply revered.The Bonehunters, Chapter 12, US HC p.392-395
 
Along the way, Boatfinder, Karsa and Samar came across the remains of a rough camp site on a lake, where six Anibar had been slain by killers who had inflicted indiscriminate violence on the people there, as well as on a nearby holy site — all of which deeply disturbed Boatfinder.The Bonehunters, Chapter 14, US HC p.460-462
He experienced an even greater blow further down the trail, when the group came upon the body of Stonefinder, his friend and kin, who had clearly been tortured and toyed with before being killed. The perpetrators were still nearby and the group quickly found them — about fifty Tiste Edur who were in the process of gruesomely torturing even more Anibar prisoners. Karsa waded into them with his great sword, slaying as many of the Edur as he could.The Bonehunters, Chapter 16, US HC p.530-532 
Samar Dev convinced Karsa to stop the assault in order to trick the Edur into never returning. The Edur leader, Preda Hanradi Khalag, explained that his people had been sent across the world by Emperor Rhulad Sengar to find a champion to face the emperor in mortal combat. He offered to leave the Anibar lands if Karsa returned with him to the Letherii Empire by ship to accept the challenge. Karsa agreed.The Bonehunters, Chapter 16, US HC p.534-535 After a time, however, Samar found herself sometimes wishing that she had stayed behind with Boatfinder, rather than join Karsa Orlong on the next leg of his life-long quest.The Bonehunters, Chapter 17, US HC p.563
Karsa presented Boatfinder with the rotted heads of the two Deragoth he had slain at the Battle of Raraku before departing.The Bonehunters, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.705
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