Name: Tammourindha of the sandstone clan

Age: seventeen

Nation of origin: Gor (western desert)

Current title/occupation: Gor warrior, unofficial ambassador to the “civilized world”

Physical appearance: Tammourindha is tall and lean, with short auburn hair that sticks out in all directions. Her many hours spent in raiding on the Gorgan people has lent her skin a tannish hugh.

Usual attire: Tammourindha typically wears lose-fitting shirts and pants in drab, earthy colors. She wears no jewelry or accessories, save for a necklace of silver, which features the stylized image of a snake curled around itself, which was given to her by her mother.

Attitude: fierce, loyal, honorable, curius, passionate.

Personal history: Tammourindha was born to Semurindha of the Sandstone tribe on the night of the blood moon. Her mother and grandmother seem to think this important, but for her own part, Tammourindha is sure this is merely superstition. She has always harbored a secret curiosity about the folk beyond the desert, but this never made her soft when battling the outsiders alongside her people.

When Tammourindha is not in battle, her mother Semurindha often conscripts her to help in gathering herbs and plants in the sparse desert. Her mother is knows all the plants within 50 miles of Gor. She has been careful to teach Tammourindha which will heal a mann, and which will see that he is no longer a threat.

Tammourindha has never cared much for herb lore; why does it matter what plants will kill? IF you want a man dead, she thinks, the stark honesty of a spear through his belly will make your intentions plain enough. Still, she is careful to try to gather at least a few herbs on every raid, out of respect for her mother’s chosen profession.

At the age of seventeen, while on a routine mission, Tamourindha slew one of her own tribe mates in the fighting. She refuses to this day to speak of the incident, even to the tribal elders. For her offense, she was exiled from Gor society for a year and a day. Her past service to the tribe earned some small measure of leniency, and she was told to go among the outsiders to see if she might find her lost honor. She was told only that when she returned, a test of honor would await her. If she did not pass, or refused to return, she would face death.