Character Sketch - Trevor Goodwin

Trevor is the first person Anka came to after discovering the Relic. They are what we would call "best friends." They lost their virginity to each other three years ago, at the harvest festival. Since then, they have remained best friends, never lovers.

He is a thin man, neither a warrior nor a shaman. In some ways though, he lives as both - he is very disciplined, very sensitive. He has an uncanny knack for communing with animals and plants, even whole environments and ecosystems seem to speak to him. Because this sort of ability was common to some degree among all of the tribe's psychics and empaths, it was not initially seen as unusual in Trevor. But his proficiency in this domain, especially as a young adult, is impressive.

He lives in a cliffside cave along the Great Mountains, some distance from the village - yet he is constantly present in the village, and opinionated at the town meetings. He comes and goes from his high perch (which he discovered at the age of 15) via a rope ladder which Anka helped him build. She had helped him build the ladder - but only after he had climbed up to the cave by his own devices, and after the ladder was finished, he climbed the rock wall by his own devices again, to hang it. Physically he is not nearly as strong as Anka, but he prides himself on being able to out-climb her.

Trevor secretly believes that he will be one of the chief elders of the Tribe one day. When Anka made the decision to cross the Wasteland and bring the Relic to Ankharra, Trevor insisted on coming with her. "It will be an initiation," he said.

[I am currently trying to exit and re-enter the Oregon House via rope-ladder at least once a day, to get in touch with Trevor... I feel like that's exactly the eccentric sort of thing a person is supposed to do on a solitary writer's retreat...]