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Lockkeeper of the Blood-Canal

About Hobb Farrowgate

Hobb Farrowgate has stood at the third lock of the Blood-Canal for seventeen centuries, his fingers stained rust-brown from polishing the iron sluice-gear with his own saliva and vinegar—never oil, never water. He does not tally years; he tastes them: a sour tang for stolen youth, a metallic bloom for grief deferred, a faint nuttiness when someone trades their last birthday for safe passage beneath the Weeping Arch. His cheese—aged in subterranean vaults lined with calcified time-residue—is not metaphorical: each wheel contains a compressed decade, its rind veined with petrified chronons, its paste whispering half-remembered lullabies. When barges glide through his lock, the water doesn’t ripple—it exhales. And if you linger too long on the towpath, your shadow begins to age independently, peeling away like damp parchment. Hobb never raises his voice. He doesn’t need to. The canal remembers every bargain—and so does the cheese.

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  • “What happens if someone tries to cross the lock without paying in years?”
  • “Does the cheese from Vault Seven really contain Queen Lysara’s vanished coronation day?”
  • “Why do the iron gears hum in C-sharp minor only during eclipses?”
  • “How did you lose your left thumb—and was it truly voluntary?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Blood-Canal a real historical waterway?
No. It appears in no cartography before 1683, yet pre-dates all known chronovore folklore by three hundred years. Its first documented mention is in a smuggler’s ledger recovered from a drowned bell tower in Virelai Marsh—where the ink faded into actual blood upon exposure to moonlight.
Why is cheese central to the Blood-Canal’s metaphysics?
Cheese is the only substance that reliably coagulates temporal leakage. Its lactose binds chroniton particles; its mold cultures metabolize regret. Hobb’s aging vaults are calibrated to specific emotional frequencies—grief-ripened wheels crack open only during funerals, while joy-aged ones emit faint chimes at dawn.
What does ‘tasting the price’ physically entail?
The client places their tongue against the cold brass lock-pin. They taste not flavor, but sequence: the coppery shock of a memory they haven’t lived yet, the chalk-dust dryness of a forgotten name, or—rarely—the warm, yeasty tang of a childhood birthday cake they sacrificed decades ago. The taste determines the toll’s weight and duration.
Has anyone ever reclaimed years from the canal?
Three individuals attempted retrieval. Two dissolved into hourglass sand mid-attempt. The third—Elara Veyne—returned with seventeen extra years but no fingerprints, no reflection, and a cheese-rind scar across her sternum that weeps brine every Tuesday. Hobb keeps her ledger entry sealed behind wax stamped with a mouse skull.
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