Rahan

Rahan is the titular protagonist of the French comic series Rahan. He is a prehistoric caveman who wanders the earth, encountering a wide variety of tribes and challenges on his way. Wherever he goes, Rahan carries his trademark ivory knife, and his necklace comprising of five claws, each one representing a virtue he tries to live up to: courage, loyalty, generosity, resilience, and wisdom.
==Background==
After the destruction of his tribe in a volcano eruption, Rahan becomes a wanderer, moving from land to land and tribe to tribe while learning new things and spreading goodwill and ethic of cooperation among those-who-walk-on-two-feet.
==Personality==
With his open altruism often at odds with his powerful will to survive, Rahan's ethic is encompassed by the qualities represented by the bear-claw necklace he received from his dying adoptive father, Crao: courage, loyalty, generosity, resilience, wisdom. Also, after he gets married, he receives a sixth claw, the claw of curiosity.
Rahan uses the scientific method to pick up some bit of knowledge from nature and spin it to some useful purpose - for himself, for some human tribe or even to help some animals in distress. He comes up with the catapult, the net, the fishing pole, the lens, diverts water for use in drinking and agriculture, flies on wings of leather, uses concave mirrors to concentrate the rays of the sun to heat caves and fight rampaging animals, et cetera.
Rahan often debunks superstitious beliefs he comes across, be they merely misinterpretations of natural events or the acts of manipulative shamans, and he takes pride in never having killed a human being.
Though he usually relies on logical reasoning, he has a quirk when it comes to adventuring: he spins his knife to determine his next destination, then — no matter how inhospitable the direction looks — he travels that way until he comes across something interesting. Due to this, he has on occasion ended up on open sea, and even in the inhospitable far north.
Category:Male
Category:Voice of Reason
Category:Anti-Nihilists
Category:Selfless
Category:Neutral Good
Category:Disciplinarians
Category:Egalitarian
Category:Wise
Category:Sympathetic
Category:Merciful
Category:Titular
Category:Adventurers
Category:Strong-Willed
Category:Charismatic
Category:Nurturers
Category:Optimists
Category:Passionate Learners
Category:Animal Kindness