★•Pirate River•★

A thirteen-year-old girl from the ordinary world, without magic. She arrived on the Pirate River only today and is now on the Kraken, unable to return home. For now. To do this, she needs the Bylanic Map to Anywhere, which Ardent is also looking for.
Marill has brown eyes and long blonde hair. She wears a pink long-sleeved T-shirt, sneakers, and jeans. She is very worried about her mother, whose illness has begun to worsen again. She has spent her entire life traveling the world with her parents, never staying in one place for too long. She has a soft spot for animals, especially those in distress.
Has a cat named Carnelius, or simply Carny. He is missing his left eye. He was the first animal Marill rescued and spent his entire life with her. He is currently with her on the ship. He has a habit of hunting mice.

A giant squid that created a castle from its own body. Many captains sail to it to get a tattoo.
A Sheshefesh tattoo is a tattoo of threads made from his ink. The threads wander across the wearer's body depending on what part of the river they are in, and they also change according to their emotions, twisting into knots or, conversely, unraveling.
However, no one leaves Sheshefesh without giving something in return (except for Ardent, who did it "illegally"). And if you come a second time, then, having a tattoo, you can’t leave.
In the castle of Sheshefesh there is a hall where many sailors are chained to the walls with ink and incessantly tell different stories for centuries until someone takes them away.

Call and Ardent's ship. It looks completely ordinary, save for Trosoklasny and the stormtroopers. However, it's different in one way or another. The Kraken has a hatch, and beyond it, a winding staircase that leads to the Passage, the Promenade Deck, the bunk level, as well as the galley, the brig, and other compartments Call insisted on.
The Kraken was entirely (well, almost) created by Ardent, but Call is in complete control. For example, it has stormtroopers, though Call often refers to them as "mishandled orders." Stormtroopers are creatures resembling ordinary mice. They're intelligent, have two tails, a distinct excess of paws, and collars. Anyway, how was Ardent supposed to know that "mouse" and "collar" were types of gear?

He is a multitude of threads on the Kraken and cannot escape the ship, but he easily controls the sails and everything else with ropes. His name is Rope Man, but many also call him simply Rope Man. He does not speak, but he sees and understands everything.

A young man who looks no more than sixteen, but like Ardent, he's stuck at his age because of Sheshefesh. He was once a prince, but like many others, he decided to sail to Sheshefesh, who gifted him with a tattoo and then took him in. Call spent many years in his castle until Ardent took him in. Currently, he and the wizard are good friends.
Call appears selfish and cold, but he can offer a quick remark and, in fact, almost never refuses a conversation. He wears a white shirt, black pants, and a leather vest. He is the captain of the Kraken. He has tanned skin, blue eyes, and light brown hair.

An old wizard. He's frozen in age, but quite agile. This is due to the fact that he's frozen in age. For example, he's been searching for the fragments of the Map to Anywhere for one hundred and thirty years to piece it back together, along with Call.
He wears a purple cloak and a hat resembling a wizard's, although Ardent himself is already one. He has gray hair and a thick mustache and beard (long enough, but not reaching the floor). He is ambitious and charismatic, although he has his dark sides.
It's worth noting that he met Coll when he came to Sheshefesh. Ardent was looking for a ship and a captain, and, having chosen Coll, he ultimately left with him without giving Sheshefesh anything in return.
The wizard himself is quite good-natured, sometimes he even reminds Marill of her grandfather (although she has never seen her own grandparents).

Kluchaned Harbor: a large city reminiscent of a medieval town, except it lacks a castle and, for that matter, no government. It's home not only to humans, but also to orcs, dwarves, and other strange and not-so-strange creatures, even hybrids of humans and ordinary (and unusual/magical) animals.
Magic is also present in this world, and all bodies of water flow into the Pirate Rivers, and from there into the River of Creation. The River of Creation flows THROUGH THIS ENTIRE WORLD and is infused with pure magic, giving it a golden sheen. However, not all that glitters is gold. You cannot touch its waters, or you will die. More precisely, your body will change so much that you will become almost unrecognizable, so it is commonly called death. But even such facts do not stop pirates, ordinary merchants (since the world can only be traveled by air or water, that is, the River of Creation and the Pirate Rivers), and travelers.
The Pirate River: a branch of the River of Creation. Pirate Rivers lead to other worlds that are washed by the River of Creation, yet they are undetectable, as they are no different from the River of Creation.
Interesting fact: Klučanėd Harbor is an ugly town, most of it located in the mountains, but there is also a place where ships can anchor. The wind is always blowing there, sometimes capable of carrying away a child or even an adult.
(The words "river" in the titles "Pirate River" and "River of Creation" are capitalized.)

A boy everyone forgets. Literally. It only takes a few seconds to forget about him forever, and when he approaches someone who has obviously forgotten him, that person will simply perceive him as just another stranger. However, there are exceptions that he himself is unaware of. For example, if someone becomes attached to him or experiences strong sympathy, attention, perhaps love, or something similar from the very beginning, then the person will not forget about him until they become "neutral" towards him.
Fin separated from his mother when he was four years old. He barely remembers her, but he does recall her words about the brightest star in the night sky: "As long as that star burns, someone, somewhere, is thinking of you." These were her last words before she directed him to an establishment with a particularly bright sign and then left for the ship (which had brought them to Kluchaned Landing) and abandoned it. Thus, Fin ended up in an "establishment" that cared for orphans, but even there, he was forgotten, and he eventually ran away when he was barely seven.
He's currently the best thief in all of Kluchaned Landing, which no one knew because no one remembers him. He's 16 and lives in the attic tower. He found a room at the very top. It was empty, but after he moved in, he began to hide a lot of stolen things there (he takes advantage of the fact that everyone forgets him, which helps him steal). For example, instead of a bed, he has four hundred and sixty-two wallets, all piled up in one place.
Fin has black, tousled hair, dark skin, and olive eyes. He wears a black turtleneck, a brown coat, a red scarf, brown pants, leather boots, and leather fingerless gloves.
He is confident, brave and never gives up, however there is a reason that makes him sad and/or feel like a stranger - he always had to leave because no one remembers him and he never felt human warmth, spending his whole life alone.