Spirit Walker Trivia Quiz

Answer: Willow bark

Fin-Kedinn has sent Torak to gather willow bark that had been soaking in a stream. That is when he sees the auroch and the man who warns him. The auroch is usually a gentle creature except when they have calves, as this auroch had with her. Torak didn't want to return to the camp without the bark so he decided to wait. Then he sees the man hunting the auroch.

Answer: A sickness

He is warning Torak that a sickness will sweep the forest, a horrible sickness that drives people to commit suicide. The man has the sickness himself which means he gets blisters and thick honey coloured scabs. The man was mad because he was hunting an auroch alone. 'An auroch is the biggest, strongest prey in the forest. To attack one on your own is asking to be killed.' Torak doesn't bother getting the willow bark, he runs straight to the Raven camp to warn them.

Answer: Oslak

Renn, Fin-Kedinn and Saeunn are all busy when Torak gets to the camp; they are the people he usually goes to if something is wrong. Instead he sees Oslak and blurts out the story. But Oslak just says 'You say the man was boar clan, well then, his mage will take care of him.' When Torak protests, Oslak gets very angry and tells him to go and hunt salmon. Later, he tries to lure his nephew onto a rickety walkway above a fast, deep river and warns if anyone comes closer, he'll slash the supporting ropes and he and Dari will drown. Once he is taken to a safe tent, he escapes, jumps from a big rock and drowns.

Answer: Tainting the Sea with the Forest

Bale, Detlan and Asrif see the fishing hooks that Torak used to catch fish with. They were what 'tainted' the sea because they were bramble thorns. Then they searched Torak's gear whilst he was cutting pine roots from the trees. They got very angry and captured Torak, then they took him in their skinboats, warning him that he'd get The Rock.

The Rock was a a large rock jutting out from the sea which people guilty of things like that were tied to. They would only have a waterskin, no food and would be stranded for a month. Sometimes you got washed off and drowned, other times you'd survive but be starving.

Answer: Islinn

Islinn is the leader, but Tenris may as well be. Tenris is the mage and has an enormous amount of control over the Seal Clan. He is the one who manages to get Torak off The Rock.

Answer: Ring seal

When Torak asks the three boys what their parkas are made from, he is confused to discover it is gutskin from a seal. When he asks why they hunt their clan creature they're shocked. Then they explain angrily that their clan creature is ring seal, and the seal they hunt is grey seal.

Answer: Selik root

This is totally pointless. Tenris is actually the one sending the sickness using his two servants. First, he tested the sickness on Bale's younger brother and it killed him.

Answer: Tokoroth

The art of creating a tokoroth was supposed to be forgotten, according to Saeunn, but Tenris found it and made two. Renn is bitten by one of these earlier in the book.

Answer: His heart

As Torak is being tied up, he discovers that Tenris is going to eat his heart. He also discovers that Fa was Tenris' brother.

Answer: Fa

The seven soul-eaters are all mages. Torak guesses that Fa was the seventh after his battle with Tenris on the crag. Fin-Kedinn doesn't answer, but Torak could tell from the look in his eyes. He is horrified at first and refuses to accept it until Fin-Kedinn reminds him that at the beginning they were not all evil. Fa hadn't gone evil like the rest of them and when he tried to leave, he became their enemy. That was why they killed him.