The river people, known locally as the River Ferriers, are Bayou Halflings that have moved out of the deep Backswamp and onto the rivers. After centuries of shipbuilding, fishing, and boating, these adaptive people have gradually melded into the background of human civilization by ferrying people up and down river. The range of the River Ferriers is far reaching, stretching hundreds of miles northwest to southeast within the confines of the Meander River and its tributaries, to waters beyond Cay Bay at the mouth of this moving road.