When Doro meets her, Anyanwu has lived through many cycles where she taken on a youthful body, married, born children, and allowed her body to age, before repeating the process. She is the resident witch, a healer and a priestess. The story starts when Doro finds Anyanwu, who is living as an old woman in a town made up of her descendants. In regards to individuals, Doro is casually cruel, but in regards to the entirety of a people, he is both caring and loyal, expending significant time, energy, and resources to assure his people are safe and cared for. He’s stopped seeing people as individuals and begun to see them as a people, a group, a line of descendants. He is also painfully lonely, as the lives of everyday humans flash by in the blink of an eye. Lover and beloved.ĭoro has been alive for thousands of years, and he whiles away the time by collecting people with special powers and breeding them.ĭoro can use any body, but bodies of people with special powers last longer. He is a killer, he is masculine, and he is by nature immortal. She is a healer, she is feminine, and she is by nature immortal.ĭoro is a man whose spirit moves from one body to another, thereby destroying the host’s spirit and eventually the body. The index to the roundtable is here.Īnyanwu is a woman who can shift her physical form into any shape. This is part of a roundtable on the work of Octavia Butler.
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