BjornC05
Timber and boats
- Age at landing
- 26
- From
- Norwegian, from the Hardanger fjord
- Before
- Wooden-boat builder and timber framer
- Main skill
- Felling, joinery, boatbuilding
- Other skills
- Wheel making, wooden patterns for the foundry, skiing and ice sense
- Personality
- Quiet and methodical, with a dry humour. More at ease with wood than with people.
- Strength
- Nothing he builds ever fails.
- Flaw
- A perfectionist, so he is slow. Stubborn. Hates to be rushed.
- Wants
- A ship good enough to find out what lies beyond the island.
- Story arc
- Learns to make ten good things instead of one perfect one.
- Dies
- Year 27, aged 53. Cancer. Grace knows what it is and has only opium to give.
- First partner
- Imani, from month 3
- Leads phases
- 07 Carpentry, the village, measures and writing
- Helps in phases
- 01 First days: water, fire, shelter
02 Stone, bone, wood and fibre toolkit
03 Food security and the first camp
09 Water, wind and mechanical power
10 Blast furnace, coal, cast iron and rolling
Bjorn and Imani
Imani talks all day and Bjorn hardly at all. He leaves a carved netting needle on her mat without a word.
His silence against her need for company. His slowness against her speed.
Procedures Bjorn leads
Procedures Bjorn helps with
Sketches with Bjorn
