Port-Ludo is a small city in the coastline of Desert Island. It has a bazaar, a ferry ticket store, a restaurant and the houses of Jerome Baldino and the wizard Ker'aooc. There's also a fountain and a sand playground where a sphero and a quetch are playing pétanque.
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- Sunbather
- A Quetch lady sitting at the beach outside the Bar, beside an umbrella. She waves at the ferry whenever it departs from the port.
- She is happy that the storm finished and she can enjoy the suns. She has heard about the oasis and the turtle found there.
- Asked about the School of Magic, she wonders if she can work as an assistant there.
- Asked about the Wizards, she says she hasn't seen any, as she fell asleep under the sun.
- Sup tourist
- Like all Esmers, he greets Twinsen and explains that they are coming in peace to exchange knowledge and friendship with the Twinsunians.
- Pétanque players
- An old Sphero with a moustache who complains about his back, for which he often visits Ker'aooc so that he can feel well to bowl. When Twinsen talks to him again, he says he is looking for him, and the Sphero says that he lives at the corner of the plaza.
- Asked about the School of Magic, he says that when he was young he had heard it is in the Cemetery.
- When Twinsen talks to him later, the Sphero complains that Ker'aooc had gone away without leaving poultice for him.
- Asked about the Wizards, he says that he saw some pass by some time ago, talking about the Hacienda in the Desert.
- The old Quetch speaks with a French accent and knows Twinsen, greeting him as "Mr. Twinsen"; he thinks that the arrival of the Esmers to several islands should not interrupt their game. When Twinsen walks on the balls he says "You pest!". He picks them up.
- Asked about the School of Magic, he says that it is somewhere in the Desert, but he had never found it.
- He doesn't know where the Wizards are, and says that he hasn't seen Ker'aooc for some time.