Vaintè

Vaintè is one of the leaders of the race of lizard-men in Harry Harrison's science fiction book trilogy, "West of Eden", "Winter in Eden", and "Return to Eden". Vaintè lived in the village of Alpeasak (near the real-world location of the Florida Keys) until it was overrun by cro-magnon hunters. She and many other Yilane escaped death by fire [Yilane don't eat cooked meat, and call fire "smoke-death" and start going insane near it, as their city and equipment are all biologically grown.] by boarding a "Uruketo", a mutated ichthyosaur with its fin designed to hold many Yilane, basically used as a living submersible. Not a lot of her life is known, except she wishes to see the main cro magnon hero of the book, Kerrick, dead.

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