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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book about Yilanè, Kerrick, American entitled West of Eden?
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conversations.value: West of Eden: The story revolves around the eventual discovery of the American continents by the Yilanè, who are searching for new resources and territories for colonization.\nBeing reptiloid and cold-blooded, they target tropical and sub-tropical zones.\nEventually, of course, they encounter the humanoids, whom they regard as barely sentient animals.\nHumans, in their turn, are xenophobically terrified of the Yilanè.\nAs the winters become colder the Tanu are forced to travel south into warmer climates to hunt, onto Yilanè territory.\nIt is not long before a state of conflict exists between the two species.\nThe central characters are Vaintè, an ambitious Yilanè; Stallan, her vicious and obedient adjutant; and Kerrick, a "ustuzou" (the Yilanè word for mammal) who is captured by the reptiloids as a boy, and raised as a Yilanè.\nKerrick eventually escapes to rejoin his own people, ultimately becoming a leader.\nAnother notable Yilanè character is Enge, the leader of a faction of pacifist Yilanè who reject the militaristic and violent attitudes of their culture.\nThis group is violently opposed by most other Yilanè, especially Vaintè.\nEnge befriends Kerrick, and acts as his teacher, while he lives with the Yilanè.\nAfter Kerrick escapes he joins other human tribes and after a journey over the mountains, being pursued all the while by Vaintè, who wants nothing more than the absolute destruction of the ustouzou.\nAfter a number of victories, Kerrick realizes that despite the losses inflicted upon the Yilanè, the Yilanè will never stop pursuing them.\nKerrick organizes an expedition back to the Yilanè city of Alpèasak where he was held as a boy, and burns it down.\nThe North American continent is freed of the Yilanè.