Hild

Captain of the Camilla the Seraphim

"That's a lot of water for one apple, boy." (the dock, Vigolas aged six)

Worldthe Shallows

RoleMENTOR

First appearsas a lost memory · face restored Saga IV Arc 8 · on the page among the dead, Saga VI ch. 380, 386, 410

none ever drawn (dead before the story; in the stands of the dead the plates don't show).

Look

Build & height: broad, weathered, strong; a sea-captain's stance, feet apart.
Face: "a face like a walnut that laughed": brown, deeply lined, crinkled at the eyes; a gap tooth; a scar through one eyebrow (from a block on Hallbard's jetty at Fyren).
Hair: two grey braids.
Eyes: sharp, amused.
Clothing: a captain's sea-coat; in the stands of the dead, drawn without colour like all the dead, with the drowned crew in old black-sail coats.
Signature item: the wheel of the Camilla the Seraphim.
Movement: arms folded (the dead in ch. 380); one hand on the wheel (memory).
Voice: big and amused; she calls him "boy".
Variant looks: The dock (Vigolas six, a stolen apple, Hild laughing) · At the wheel of the Camilla · In the stands of the dead (grey, arms folded, unreadable) · The nod (ch. 410).

Laughing, blunt, fair; the kind of captain who takes in a thief because he's six and hungry.

Vigolas: the boy she took off the dock; the captain who left his crew on the wrong side of the rail, and carried them back over it.
Ture: the gangly gap-toothed boy, his first crewmate, beside her in the stands.
Hallbard: the keeper who lit the Camilla and was waved at.

Story so far

III (ch. 90): her face taken by REMOVE.
IV: her face on Levla's stall; restored at Skatt (Arc 8). The ship's name bought back (ch. 155, 159).
VI · ch. 380: in the stands of the dead with the drowned first crew, arms folded, unreadable: Vigolas, to himself: "Nobody gets left on the wrong side of the rail. I left all of you there."
VI · ch. 386: called down by Rule Five; Vigolas carries her over Emma's rope on her own rule.
VI · ch. 410: the nod, a captain's that'll do. "Aye, captain."

"That's a lot of water for one apple, boy."
"Nobody gets left on the wrong side of the rail."
"You've been on it since the day they launched her." (Vigolas, using her rule, ch. 271)