AdamC01

Chair of the council; the safety of the whole group

Age at landing: 27
From: Canadian; Scottish father, Cree mother
Before: Doctor who led a mountain rescue team
Main skill: Organising people; fire, shelter, rope work and medicine
Other skills: Navigation, teaching, trapping
Personality: Calm. Listens to everyone first, then decides once. Takes every failure personally.
Strength: People trust him with their lives, and he has earned it.
Flaw: Slow to accept a risk. Hides his doubt. Tries to do too much himself.
Wants: All 24 alive at the end of every year.
Story arc: From the rescuer who does everything himself to the leader who lets each specialist lead.
Dies: Year 33, aged 60. In his sleep; Grace thinks it was his heart. Nobody is voted into his chair, and the next year the council of chosen speakers takes its place.
First partner: Zoe, from month 22
Leads phases: 01 First days: water, fire, shelter
Helps in phases: 02 Stone, bone, wood and fibre toolkit
03 Food security and the first camp

Adam and Zoe

After her log sledge runs away down the slope, with nobody hurt, Zoe expects Adam to shut her out. Instead he asks her to design its brake. They have argued in council for two years; the camp saw it coming before they did.

She pushes for speed, he for safety. She will not be "the leader's wife" and still votes against him.