Great Tree
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Great Tree was born a little less than a year after Tree Shadow. Her naming was controversial among the women of the village. She should have had a lower-value name to mark her as a second-born girl, even though she was born to the other twin.
The controversy reopened when Great Tree gave birth to a girl before Tree Shadow did. The village's Woman Woman at the time was Moon Wish's grandmother, and she had Moon Wish inducted into the Moon Women. Traditionally this honor was reserved for first-girl women whose first girls had become women; Great Tree should not have qualified. Though the arguments were only carried out at the Moon Women's secret meetings, the discontent was evident in their interactions elsewhere.
Ever since Moon Wish became Woman Woman, the radical women have begun looking to Great Tree as a leader and their best hope as a challenge to Moon Wish for control of the village. The moment will come a few years in the future when a severe drought weakens Moon Wish's power over the village. Although the challenge will fail, Great Tree will ultimately be the winner. The radical women will be exiled and instead of settling farther down the river, she will encourage them to follow it as far as they can. The village they build will be the beginning of an entirely new culture.
View from the Future
12,000 years, The OceanThe descendants of the exiled women now number in the millions and have spread all along the lower part of the river, the coast it meets, and out across the ocean.
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