Character name:  Elijah Oresti<br/>Age:  41<br/>Appearance<br/>(http://bp0.blogger.com/_qKRDuzLuMPM/SAWnRoZrncI/AAAAAAAAAGo/az7uyRxSnwI/s400/pictureframemormon.jpg)<br/><br/>Personality:  Elijah was a professor of Anthropology and Early American Studies before the plane crash.  He was fairly knowledgeable in living off the land as his studies proved invaluable.  Their early survival and subsequent ability to function was truly helped along by his ideas and ingenuity.  Elijah is open with his thoughts and knowledge, almost to a pedantic degree, as many professors are want to be.  He means well.  He also has had severe bouts of depression lately and has basically given up hope of returning to society.<br/><br/>History:  Though now ten years divorced, Elijah was married at 19 to a fellow college student named Rachael.  Money troubles and separation due to graduate studies and field work drove the pair to divorce.  The last few years of their marriage had seen them learn how to press all the wrong buttons and had shaken Elijah's faith in the sanctity of monogamous marriage.  His studies had shown him that most early tribes were multiple wife based and seemed to thrive as such.  His only problem is that despite the love that turned into rancid hate, he and Rachael had always had great sex and even when he last saw her at 37, she looked stunning.  Elijah has a great tendency to compare all girls to his ex, which means while they invariably win in the personality contest, they often have trouble in other areas.  Consequently, he has not had a steady girlfriend (or even slept with a woman more than once) since his divorce.<br/><br/>Elijah met Desmond post-divorce when he had a lot of down-time and was working through some depression.  Elijah struck up a buddy relationship with Desmond over a few backyard beers and bowls.  He used Desmond as a way to fill his time through teaching and friendship and he believed that Desmond was using him as a way to gain intelligence without having to deal with the rigid education system.