Dustfinger, on the other hand, longed to return to the world he had known, and sought out people with the same gift as Mo to read him back, despite knowing that a death from one of Capricorn's men awaited him at the end of the novel, out of which he was read from, caused by none other than that book's author, Fenoglio, who stated that he killed Dustfinger off because he wanted to 'make the story more exciting'. His apprentice, Farid, who was also read out of his world by Mo, was pleased to be freed from constant work and possible beatings. In his native world, Dustfinger had the rare ability to control fire by speaking to it, and, when he found himself thrust into Mo's universe, he continued to make his living by busking, though he expressed the fire there were different from where he came from.ĭustfinger was never seen without his pet horned marten, Gwin. Falling into the real worldĭustfinger was plucked from the Inkworld along with Capricorn and Basta through a fantasy novel read aloud by Mortimer Folchart. Rosanna fell ill and later died after Dustfinger had been in the real world for two years. He has a wife named Roxane, and two daughters, Brianna and Rosanna. Dustfinger was born in the kingdom of Argenta, where he grew up along with The Black Prince, with whom he apparently got into great mischief from the fact that the two were pilloried together at age 11.

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