Mahanui Greene
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AKA "Manny"
Concept
Wandering Everyman Worker
Tropes
Details
Causa Vitæ
Must get home to his tribe in New Zealand. Cannot die or be buried in a foreign land.
Background
- 1823: Born in New Zealand
- 1837: Pressed into service in the British Navy (age 14) as part of a peace deal with his tribe and the crown.
- 18##: Served as a crewman in the West Indies
- 18##: Discharged from service and joined the crew of a merchantman headed home to NZ.
- 18##: Ship lost to a storm, marooned, rescued by slavers.
- 18##: Sold to a southern industrialist working on building railroads
- 18##: Escaped, freed or liberated (depending on timeline)
- 18##: Moved west and had several careers (US, Canada, Mexico), smithing, train engineer, trail boss, prospector, translator, trailblazer, map maker, hunter, ranching
- Jan 1877: Arrived at Babylon and hired on as a farrier at the Kimble ranch