Character Profiles
Kier
Wintripp
Jessie
Mayfield
Grandfather, a.k.a., Stalking Bear
Grandfather,
grandfather to Kier Wintripp
and the father of his mother otherwise known as Stalking Bear, is
the Spirit Walker of the Tilok tribe. A Spirit Walker is a ceremonial
and spiritual title used by the Tilok tribe to describe a spiritual
mystic who normally teaches a few chosen young men the art of hunting,
tracking and survival in addition to spiritual values and what we
might call intuitive skills.
The tribe doesn't always have a Spirit Walker. They come along now
and then in history, and until a successor is recognized, the elders
teach the skills imparted from the last Spirit Walker.
Normally a Spirit Walker is a loner and when not teaching is something
of a wanderer. Grandfather often disappears into the wilderness
for days at a time. In contrast to Stalking Bear, Kier's mother
Spring is all twentieth century, employed as a business manager
in a white man's grocery store. While Spring emphasized modern education
and the virtues of science, she allowed Grandfather to school Kier
in the ways of the Tilok tribe, teaching him the Tilok lore and
wilderness, survival, hunting and tracking skills.
Fundamentally, Grandfather is a peaceful man and will go to almost
any length not to kill his enemies.
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