The Woman By The Sea

Where the river met the sea, there was always a woman. The name they had before they became the woman there didn't matter, at least to the tribe.

She was once of the tribe, but no longer, as those who took the role did so knowing what it entailed.

There was a lot that the tribe needed done that was not that which the tribe could do. The births, the deaths, all that was unclean, the tribe relied on the woman by the sea.

Which gave them all the power, as the old one would tell her apprentice every time.