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Prologue · reading

Purelakers wading the shallow Purelake, little clothing, fishing spears

culture · PYOOR-lake-er

Purelaker

Purelakers · people of the Purelake

Fishers who live in the Purelake, often waist-deep, unhurried. They worship Nu Ralik but speak the name of Vun Makak, his cousin.
Waist-deep in the lake, praying to the god they will not name.
Role
Lake-dwellers and fishers. Ishikk is one, hired to ask after a foreigner named Hoid.
First introduced
Book 1 — End of The Way of Kings
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Book 1 — End of The Way of Kings
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Look

Dark hair, the built-for-wading look of people who spend their days in water. Little clothing. Bare feet, fishing , skin wet more often than dry.

As observed

Unhurried. They find land-dwellers strange for staying dry. Foreigners' urgency does not transmit well through the water.

Where

The Purelake itself: miles of warm, ankle-to-chest water, villages on and in the lake, land treated as a place one visits.

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Ishikk

Ishikk

Purelake fisherman; hired searcher · Purelaker

The fisherman in the Purelake with the three foreign employers.