OmarC17

Fields and water

Age at landing: 27
From: Egyptian, from a farming family in the Fayoum oasis
Before: Agronomist and irrigation engineer
Main skill: Crops, soil and water management
Other skills: Draught animals, milling, seed selection, beekeeping
Personality: Steady and patient. Thinks in seasons, not days. First to bed, first up.
Strength: Plans a full year ahead and never panics.
Flaw: Cautious about anything new. Resents the workshops taking his workers. Says "you cannot eat iron" too often.
Wants: Two years of grain in the granary.
Story arc: The council's loyal opposition; ends up running a farm that feeds four times the people with a quarter of the hands.
Dies: Year 38, aged 65. A stroke at harvest, six years after the operation that saved him.
First partner: Sofia, from month 2
Leads phases: 03 Food security and the first camp
Helps in phases: 01 First days: water, fire, shelter
02 Stone, bone, wood and fibre toolkit
08 Farming, cloth, leather and household industry
09 Water, wind and mechanical power

Omar and Sofia

Omar grows it and Sofia stores it. They are counting the food together every evening from the second week.

She spends the stores on feasts to lift spirits. He hoards seed.