'Restive' is an aged, wild-haired, shaggy-bearded former High Lama Rider who had a thing with a Ludoch and was away down the Zola Fel most of his life. Now he spends most days on the lunar bridge watching all the river traffic intently. Sometimes he is to be seen on the Zebra bridge or even on the Troll bridge (in company with the troll guards). At one time Lunar soldiers tired to harry him off the bridges but they have tired of it in the face of his persistence, indifference to pain and his constant disturbing mumbling. He seems to speak a multitude of languages but does not give away much about his interest in the River at Pavis, even to those that buy him drinks and treat him kindly. He always carries the handle end of a broken oar with strange runes carved on it. Goldfang lets him sleep on the roof of the Grotto because he has something to do with the supply of fighting fish from Teshnos.