DiegoC07

Maps and minerals

Age at landing: 25
From: Chilean, from the Atacama mining country
Before: Exploration geologist
Main skill: Reading rock and finding ore
Other skills: Surveying, testing ore samples, walking great distances
Personality: A restless optimist and a storyteller. Always certain the next hill has what they need.
Strength: Finds everything the island hides, and remembers exactly where.
Flaw: Over-promises. Is away when he is needed. Has a gambler's streak.
Wants: To stand on every hill of the island.
Story arc: His hand-drawn map of year one becomes the plan of the railway in year forty-four, twenty-three years after the coal mine he found kills him.
Dies: Year 21, aged 46. Killed by the gas explosion in the coal mine he found. Viktor digs the other two out alive.
First partner: Ulani, from month 4
Leads phases: 05 Copper and bronze
Helps in phases: 02 Stone, bone, wood and fibre toolkit
06 Iron and steel
07 Carpentry, the village, measures and writing
10 Blast furnace, coal, cast iron and rolling

Diego and Ulani

Two weeks alone in the dugout canoe, surveying the coast: Diego maps the rock, Ulani the plants. They come back a pair.

Both wander and neither is ever home. She will not be told to be careful by a man who is not.