On this page I will devote space to the unusual creatures which I have found or had Bred by my Animal Master friends. I know, I didn't like animals much but over time I have found that a pet is often better than a person for companionship.
Since each Adoption agency often has its own rules and sets of creatures which cannot be combined on the pages with other animals, I will link each creature to only others found in its specific Site.
(How's that for covering my legal butt? Not that I want to cover MY butt...see below for more...)
So whenever I find a new pet, I'll show a new entrance site, and you can click on it to your hearts content.
I'm going off to see about Breeding some Zekirans now, my favorite activity.
I was born on the planet of Zekira, the Land of Zerin, the Area of Ka, and the city of Emer (we usually just say Zerin/Ka/Emer, everyone on Zekira knows this!) in the year 10285. I became a Breeder (that's scientist to you mundane Earth folk) and I recieved my 6th Degree certificate enabling me to work with genes and cells exclusively when I was about 24. Yes, that was earlier than most people get that far advanced, but I was Bred to be intelligent... I was also Bred by a very cruel, hateful man, and he shall we say took too many liberties with me in the years that I spent with him. He murdered my parents, and attempted to bring me into virtual Slavery to him -- he couldn't make me an actual Slave because I was already set in Breeding too well financially -- but finally I broke away and spent much of my life afterwards attempting to regain my sanity.
I was helped along the way by my beautiful lover Mirage, and my uncle Darkhanis Paveh. Through the years, I have been a scientist, Breeder, father, interrogator (a job which I still enjoy, much to my friends distress), and something of an inventor.
In the time that I was originally alive, I created and help birth over 200 children for couples (occsaionally triples, and even one with eight parents...) and additionally sired more than 60 myself. (I understand that this would be seen as horrific to Earth folk, but Zekirans are notoriously infertile, and our population was never very high, every fertile man and woman was expected to contribute!)
When my situation with my employer Engell fell apart, I divested my life's work from Alabaster, and moved fully into my parents old Holding in Emer, what has long been referred to as the Inheritance of Snow. Though I do hate the cold, it is very pretty up there in the huge mountains of Emer, and my children, theirs, and their own grandchildren all share the duties of working the Inheritance into a wonderful Healing and Breeding facility, as well as remaining a home.
I was born there, lived there briefly as a child, left it alone for nearly a century, and then returned... And I died there.
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A rare moment of rest. Few times like these were not interrupted by local authorities moving him along. All his belongings fit into the small satchel at his side, and though he was not a wilderness lover in his first life, as an Outsider he was forced to learn to live off the land as much as a wild animal.
One of the quirks of Zekiran life is that we are heavily psionic. The stronger the psionic power, usually the more mutated the body is, and often the longer a dead person's spirit lingers in the world to watch the living. Those with little to no power simply fade away and cannot be recalled after a while.
But there are those with powers stronger than all that. A Breeder by the name of Archeria (who wasn't actually a Breeder when I knew her, she was an Animal Master...) was working to keep the world populated by interesting and unusual people. I suppose that she decided that I was to be among them, along with several people I had known and others both before I lived, and long after.
She had access to a cloning facility, which was amazing since cloning a Zekiran is extremely difficult, as we are apt to spontaneously mutate during the process! However she had taken it to quite an art, and found samples from the Breeder's Network of us.
She created new bodies, and due to another intervention of hers, all of these bodies (there were upwards of 14 of us to begin with) became functionally immortal.
Then, one of her other Bred creations, a girl whose name escapes me since she herself died nearly 14 thousand years ago... She had the ability to call souls from their resting place, and actually insert them into new host bodies.
She did this to me, and now I am not at peace. I am not at rest.
And I cannot die.
First: I OWN AND WHOLLY COPYRIGHT VANYA SENGIHR and the WORLD OF ZEKIRA. I WILL prosecute if I find people using the info here without asking.
Second: Though I have lots of Pern connections here, I would like to point out that my character Vanya is IMMORTAL. And as such, he skips about weyrs like they're nobody's business. If I have offended anyone by having (or requesting) multiple dragons on this site, it's because the character as I have constructed him CAN SUPPORT more than one during his stay on Pern.
Third: when I use any of my Zekiran terms, and I refer to Slavery, I am NOT condoning its use, or anyones use of it on our planet Earth. It is a sorry state of affairs, to have slavery in real life.