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Dustfinger
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Dustfinger, also known as the fire-eater, is a character in Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Inkspell. He is a fire eater and was plucked from a different world through a story book read by Mortimer "Mo" Folchart along with Capricorn and Basta. He is never seen without his horned marten, Gwin, and his apprentice, Farid, who was also plucked from his world of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights by Mo. It is later said that he had a wife, Roxane, a minstrel woman, and two daughters, Brianna who works for Violante at the laughing prince's castle and Rosanna who died while Dustfinger was away.
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In the book, it was said that he had shoulder length hair that, like the stubble on his chin, is ginger colored. On his face, Dustfinger has three scars "as pale as pencil lines" thanks to Basta's knife.
Dustfinger hides his emotions such as fear, affection, sympathy, and pain (Farid admires him for this skill). He's afraid of death but not afraid of the dead. He dies at the end of Inkspell, to bring Farid back. Cornelia says that Dustfinger will return in book 3 Inkdawn.
Dustfinger will be played by Paul Bettany in the upcoming big screen interpretation of "Inkheart".