The Trawlerman

Summary
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Physical
It is mentioned members of the Trawler-Man's faith do not entirely agree on how he is depicted. Universally, the Trawler-Man has two faces, and two mouths. One to listen with, and one to speak with. From there, depictions diverge.

Some followers describe the Trawler-Man as looking closer to his angels. Some kind of crustacean monstrosity that constantly leaks silt from his mouth. Others describe him as more "ornately" angelic.

Carpenter
Carpenter mentions her interpretation of the Trawler-Man being donned in an oilskin hat that obscures his double faces until he chooses to reveal them.

Mason
Mason's personal interpretation of the Trawler-Man is how he was described when the story of the Promised Bride was told to him. He is a figure that is still, but never certain. Donned in a grey mackintosh and hood, the fabric ripples and changes with the current of his river. Just as his skin does.

Mason also notes him as turning one face towards you when he wants to speak, and the other towards you when he is listening.

Known Personality
ocean man the crust of a tan man imbibed by the sand soaking up the thirst of the land (hes kind of mean honestly)

Origins & Mythos
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The Transformation of the Promised Bride
Mentioned in the beginning of Episode 6, Mason states the story of the Promised Bride has been passed through the faith for a long time.

Long ago, in the flats of the lower delta, an unnamed Promised Bride found her way to the banks of a nameless river. Despite the reputation of loss and destruction that the river held, the Bride hoped that something awful would happen to her. Something that would free her from her obligation to be wed the next day. As she wept, the Bride realized that there was a garden beneath the river's surface. And as she looked down into the garden, the Trawler-Man looked back up. The Bride and the Trawler-Man conversed, discussing how the Bride is unhappy to be wed the next day, and the Trawler-Man's offer to make her something 'that cannot be bound'. The Bride eventually comes to the revelation that regardless of which life she picks; one where she returns home or one where she offers herself to the Trawler-man, she will be a vessel. She chooses to be the Trawler-Man's and enters the depths of the river.

The next day, the Groom of the Promised Bride finds himself alone in a chapel of his family's faith. He waits for a while and thinks over the life he has been promised before becoming impatient and leaving the chapel. Upon seeing the wedding procession approach the Groom realizes that every member of the wedding party, his Promised Bride included, have been transfigured into angels of the Trawler-Man. His Bride rushes to meet him, and after puncturing his leg with one of hers, he joins the procession as one augmented by the river as well.

The Wedding Party then continues inland for an unspecified period of time, and the story ends.

Rituals & Hymns
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The Drowning Song
"“If you lower your head into the water of this tank and hold it there, until the breath has dribbled out of your nose and lungs and you begin to imagine that you are drowning, you will begin to hear music drifting up towards you from below. Clear and beautiful music, like nothing you’ve ever heard before, and the longer you stay under, the clearer the music gets.”""- Faulkner's description of the Drowning Song, Episode 2"The Drowning song was a burst of viral faith that crossed the Whisper Plains when Faulkner was young. It encouraged people, particularly younger children in this instance, to submerge their heads until they were near drowning. In return they would hear beautiful music.

When Faulkner drowned his brother Charlie, he mentions that his brother's drowned face still seemed to move as if living organisms had taken up residence beneath the skin post-mortem.

While Faulkner took the Drowning Song as a sign from his God, it might not be the doing of the Trawler-Man specifically.

The Miracle of the Intrepid
After initially vanishing in a storm, the fishing boat Intrepid remerges on the river as a saint of the Trawler-Man in Chapter 1. The five fishermen on it have been merged into the boat, creating one, large organism that was feeding the writhing denizens of the river. The Intrepid is first found by Carpenter and Faulkner, and then the authorities shortly after.

The Promised Bride
Within the story of the Promised Bride, a woman beseeches the Trawler-Man to help her escape her impending marriage. The Trawler-Man does, by converting her and her wedding party into some of his crustacean angels.

The Wreck of the Gulfwalker
While what the Gulfwalker was to the followers of the Trawler-Man exactly is uncertain, according to Faulkner, it was a sign of the Wither Tide. Carpenter has seen it in person during the period the boat was displayed (probably only to members of the faith).

Prominent Followers
Despite being an outlawed God, the Trawler-Man has been implied to have had a considerable following on the Peninsula at some point. Though those numbers have been considerably thinned by the last religious war.

Adelina Glass
Adelina Glass (also known as Nana Glass) was a prominent and well-known follower of the Trawler-Man amongst his worshippers. Carpenter mentions that throughout Adelina's life she pierced her ears, cheeks, and lips with a total of seventeen barbed hooks in devotion to the Trawler-Man. These piercings were worn publicly despite the threat they would get her reported to authorities. She was also noted as singing constantly in tribute to her God.

Carpenter
Born into the faith, especially after she began to be raised by her grandmother Adelina. She cites being properly called to the faith the day her brother died in prison invoking the Trawler-Man with prayer marks. Unlike Faulkner, her relationship with her God and Religion is incredibly personal. Carpenter didn't seek out any other members of the faith until Mason approached her when she was eighteen. Throughout the show, her one-sided dialogues with the Trawler-Man are internal and never in prayer or hymn, like how Faulkner worships.

Faulkner
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Katabasian Mason
Mason, like Carpenter, was born and raised within the faith. He rose to prominence and the title 'Katabasian' eventually. He may have also partaken in the Sodden March of 903.

Trivia

 * The episode titles of season 1 when read together are likely a hymn or prayer of some sort to the Trawler-Man.