5. Shaman's calm has a painful history
Michael Twoyoungmen is a doctor as well as a magician, and the origin backups explain how difficult the distance between those two parts of his life has been.
He cannot save his wife. His daughter Elizabeth holds him responsible after he promised that he would, and his grandfather also dies. Michael withdraws from the life he had been living. When he eventually opens what his grandfather left him, he begins learning the traditions he had previously rejected.
His medicine pouch becomes an important part of his work as Shaman, but the training takes time. The story lets him struggle with something as apparently simple as drawing the right object from it. He has to learn how to approach it, rather than treating it like another instrument he already understands.
That history gives his quieter scenes with the team more weight. He has considerable knowledge and can help people in ways the others cannot, but he has already encountered a situation where knowing more and trying harder were not enough.
Elizabeth is still a child in these flashbacks. The damage to their relationship is already clear.
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5. Shaman's calm has a painful history
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