Torber is an Athshean healer who lives in the forest village of Cadast, where Selver stays after the Athshean attack on Smith Camp. Torber works closely with Coro Mena at the village’s Lodge, and both of them are confused by Selver’s disheveled appearance and by Don Davidson’s gun, which Selver carries with him. Torber helps to heal the injured Selver and seems distressed by his story about the humans, insisting that such horrible things don’t happen in real life (a notion that Coro Mena contradicts).
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Torber Character Timeline in The Word for World is Forest
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Chapter Two
...Upon arrival, Selver immediately collapses and falls asleep. That night, Coro Mena and a healer, Torber, sit near Selver and wonder what could possibly have made him so scarred and wounded,...
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...saw in his dream. Selver must have come from Sornol, since the “giants” are there. Torber wonders if the giants will follow Selver here.
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Selver tells Torber that his wound is from the yumen’s weapon, which he took and has with him...
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Torber insists that such horrible things happen only in fever dreams, but Coro Mena says that...
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