Character Sketch - Tamreh Prescott

A frumpy, bushy haired, green poncho wearing shaman with thick glasses, bearing a superficial resemblance to a cross between an adult Hermione Granger and the occultist Thessaly in Gaiman's "Sandman" series. She's weird and sometimes a little scary.

Tamreh was recognized early as a gifted shaman and healer within the tribe - a veritable golden child. She has been assumed to be the one to replace Pesca as the tribe's medicine woman since she was fifteen.

However, the tribal elders have since become very concerned about Tamreh because she has become a technophile in a tribe founded on independence from technology. Her home is crammed with tech, and she may even own an object which incorporates (or was created using) the forbidden alien technology, the tribe's greatest taboo. Still she's such a good shaman, her disturbingly pro-tech lifestyle has been thus far tolerated.

She is the one who convinced Anka to take the journey across the wasteland ... but on their third night she shocks Anka by breaking the taboo and touching the relic.

She's also apparently a lesbian, but I'm not sure that will be very important to the story.