Warner Rafferty

Warner Rafferty, a character in the Rising Tides book, is the former CEO of Monteverde. He makes his first appearance in Chapter 1.

Appearance
Warner has blue-gray eyes, gray hair with medium beard, and tan skin. He wears a white dress shirt and gray blazer.

Personality
Warner appears warm and personable but is usually only shown as such in front of cameras and in front of public supporters. In reality, he is greedy, vengeful, and unwilling to own up to his mistakes. He states his grandfather was a Cedarport native who founded his company with the dream of leading America's agricultural industry.

Rising Tides

 * Chapter 1: High and Dry
 * Chapter 2: Fish Out Of Water
 * Chapter 4: Head Above Water (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 5: Making Waves
 * Chapter 6: Drop In The Ocean (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 7: Sink Or Swim
 * Chapter 8: Sailing Close To The Wind (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 9: Sea Change
 * Chapter 10: In Deep (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 11: Hell or High Water
 * Chapter 12: Turn The Tide (Mentioned)

Your Character
Like most of the citizens of Cedarport, you are surprised at his appearance at the emergency town hall meeting and try to assuage Charlie's impatience at the lack of concrete planning by the town's leaders. Your opinion of him starts to degrade the next day at the beach clean-up when all he (or his company) provides are dumpsters and trash bags. When you organize and structure the clean-up to be more productive, you are annoyed that he comes at the end to get credit on camera. If you are wearing the premium outfit, the camerawoman will give you more time to speak your mind; however, if you aren't, Rafferty and his camera crew depart soon after.

When a defamatory article about Charlie appears in "The Cedarport Post", you automatically assume it is Rafferty and his attempt to shut down her initiative. You confront him at his office, where he drops the polite facade and confirms your suspicions. You wonder why he would go through such lengths to kill Charlie's initiative and surmise that there must be something illegal or incriminating that his company has done that they don't want brought into light. With your sister's permission, you decide to take the full brunt of the hate mail and insulting comments by posting a video proclaiming that the initiative was your idea and that you are coming after Monteverde.

Although you cannot prove it, you suspect Rafferty or his company to behind the vandalism to your car and the threatening message as well as the destruction of your family's home and boat. Eddie confirms this when he discloses that Monteverde hired an outside party to vandalize your property.

Charlie
When Charlie proposes her initiative to the city board, Rafferty opposes it due to its potentially negative impact on businesses. She doesn't understand why he opposes it, thinking that everyone should care about the future and the environment despite the costs, but makes it her goal to gather enough signatures to move her initiative to its next step. She is discouraged when Monteverde stops her from soliciting signatures at the town center, and is further discouraged when she tries to get signatures online but a slanderous article about her appears.

When she feels that she doesn't have her parents' support, she goes out on her own to find evidence against Monteverde at their offices. She breaks in, but finds nothing and leaves with you and Robin Tora. To distract the guards, Robin sacrifices himself/herself, allowing you two to escape.

Eddie
Eddie is one of Monteverde's newest employees. He has the reputation of staying late and working late. In the beginning, he defends Monteverde to you, saying that the fate of the planet doesn't lie solely on Monteverde's shoulders. He tells you that he is a low associate at the bottom of the corporate ladder and not someone that Rafferty would listen to. However, after your sister's unsuccessful break-in to the offices, Eddie does some snooping of his own and discovers that Rafferty approved of illegally dumping fertilizer in the ocean, which caused the fish die-off. He tells you that he will quit the company, but you convince him to stay to be your "inside man".

Trivia

 * His character model resembles Liam Worthington.
 * He is on Forbes' list of the 50 Richest People in America.
 * Monteverde is one of the biggest companies in the country.
 * In Chapter 9, it is revealed that he and Monteverde as a whole are guilty of illegally dumping their fertilizer into the ocean, which caused the fish die-off.
 * In Chapter 10, it is revealed that he and Monteverde hired an outside party to vandalize your family's car and put a stabbed fish inside, and later hired the same party to vandalize your house and boat.
 * In Chapter 11, he steps down as CEO. His final act is ensure Monteverde assumes responsibility for their actions and commits to greener practices.