Candidates of the Paveh Hold
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Visit his Weyr;  D'hash IMPRESSED Blue Aridheth at Lasair Weyr!
Age: 19
Dahash, apprentice Beast Crafter Sex: male
Physical: 5'10", 170, very dark skin (almost black), white-platinum hair (straight, widows peak, to neck), pale blue-white eyes (very stunning appearance), evenly built with long legs and strong shoulders, a pretty face that is well accented with his hair and shocking eyes. He prefers to wear comfortable, close cut clothing in subdued colors.
Emotional: quiet, highly empathic to animals and dragon kind, often claims to be able to speak with the dead. He is soft spoken in general, a follower, but not interested in following fools. Skills: mostly for the beast craft, herding and husbandry basics, some beast healing, first aid (human), he is very quick on his feet and agile, good at predicting locations and events (doesn't gamble though he would if he had money and he'd be cursed to lose)
Dahash is the younger son of a rich Holder, whose older brother Sho will inherit the Hold. He was only interested in pleasing his father, but apparently this could not be done in light of Sho's talents with business and tact. So Dahash was relegated to whatever craft the Hold was best with, which turned out to be runner beasts and other herd craft. He doesn't mind that his life is of less caliber than Sho's, but there is little love lost between them, and Sho has in fact told Dahash that he will not come to his aid unless the situation is quite dire, politically speaking. In this manner, both Sho and Dahash were relieved when a Brown dragon came out of the skies over their Hold looking for suitable Candidates. Dahash made his appearance before the rider and the dragon, and was deemed quite more than adequate for the journey to the new Weyr.  Dahash does not regret the life he will lead, in fact it will be something he can finally be quite proud of on his own without having to prove anything to his family. He will do a good solid job riding a dragon, no matter the color.
As for the color of what Dahash might be best suited to, Blue or Brown would come to mind for different reasons. He does need to be lightened up after such a competitive homehold life, so a Blue with a reasonably light personality might help him adjust. But by the same token, he's quite well suited to a competitive atmosphere, and riding a Brown could push that into a stronger personality. As he is, he is not going to be picky over what comes out of the egg, only that some day, one dragon comes to him!
IMPRESSED BLUE FERTATH AT JERDAN WEYR!
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Zhick, farm hand Age: 12 Sex: male
Physical: 5'5", 110, lightly tanned skin with freckles, short orange-red hair that is swept up at the back of his head, and odd-colored eyes (one is pale brown, the other sky blue), muscular build which will gain in strength as he grows older. He has large hands used to working, and likes to go barefoot. He likes bright colored clothing, but can't possibly afford stylish ones.
Emotional: Loyal and very hard working, Zhick is a very devoted boy and wants very much to please his Foster parents. His own parents are unknown so he was raised on a farmstead near Sho's Hold. He is not quiet, he is in fact quite the upstart from time to time, and has been chastised for doing things that embarrass someone, even though he often isn't doing it on purpose. Skills: very physical. He's agile, quick and healthy, and takes a lot of hard work as a good day's activities. He will be ideally suited to hefting fire stone sacks across dragon back. Right now, he's only adept at the base physical upkeep of a farm stead: sweeping, digging, a bit of ploughing, and endless hours of cleaning stables and barns.
Zhick's parents were minor Holders nearby, but neither of them survived a sickness which swept through the area about 10 years before. He and two other children were left orphaned by the sickness, and were taken in by the already large family. When he was old enough to walk, he was old enough to clean the floors in the house (dragging behind him a kind of soft cloth over the stone floors) and in this manner was brought up to believe that work is it's own reward. He loves good food, and always eats heartily, and so far his metabolism has not yet failed him! When he was Searched, it was by a Brown rider who very nearly didn't stop on their way overhead. But instead, as Zhick watched from his vantage on the edge of the fields, the dragon circled, flew low over the farm, and finally landed (much to mamma's distress) to deliver the message that he'd be a good Candidate. The moment that he was actually called in for the clutch, he almost blew the house down with his cheers.
Zhick might do well on a Brown, his devotion to tasks will make a good wing man out of him, and his excellent physical skills prove that he's worth a ranking position. His temper or aptness to blurt out the wrong thing at the wrong time might be halted by a good solid Brown. On the other hand... A Bronze? nah! That'd never work! Too much responsibility! Better to fly with the Bronzes at the helm and let them depend on you than to have to organize everything yourself! ZHICK HAS IMPRESSED BLUE FERTATH AT JERDAN WEYR!!!
Shahmai, apprentice Harper (scribe), apprentice Dragon Healer, IMPRESSED BLUE AZLITH AT JERDAN WEYR! See his weyr here!
Sex: male
Age: 19
Physical: 5'11";, 160 and all muscle, deep brown-violet skin (very glossy), pale blond hair which is wild and fluffy, to his high back and kept with a tail, light blue eyes. He is VERY well built, with strong arms and shoulders, slender legs. He is remarkably attractive, and has had many flirtations end in rolls in the hay! It's possible he already has sired children, but he moves about quite a lot. He wears light clothing, often very little at all (down to a kind of speedo-like outfit), but often in a pale color or shock white.
Skills: quick with his hands and remarkably agile, does a lot of hard work while in his healing function, and likes to balance it with his scribe work. He is highly literate, and has found documents that perhaps the Ancients were responsible for that he is intent on translating into a more useful format, on healing arts and dragons specifically.
Emotional: steadily sexy. He's quite comfortable with himself, and is very charming to others, male and female. He reserves his loving heart attention to the girls, however. He is picky, smart, and clever. He always seems to know just where to find someone or something when it's needed the most.
Grown up on a relatively close basis with Darkhanis, though they do not see each other as either rivals or close friends, merely business associates. If either of them reach Aivas they will privately share it with the other, no holds barred. Shahmai's first profession is actually the scribe, but since he was chosen for his dragon healing craft, that took quite the lead. He was only perhaps 11 when he learned of his odd ability to locate things, including a fire lizard clutch! While the eggs were distributed to he and his other classmates, he made certain to observe the egg and the hatchling at all of its stages. When the large Brown flit hatched he kept quite good notes on its development and all the details of its body and wings, which he has then applied to his dragon healing craft.  It was only natural that he be a Candidate, his natural predispostion for healing dragons and flits brought him in close contact with dragons at an early age.
Because he is a very steady worker, a strongly devoted man and an attentive healer, a Brown or Bronze dragon would suit Shahmai well, either of them allowing for a mating Flight (which he would greatly love), and the in-combat training which would benefit from his expertise in healing.
IMPRESSED GREEN  KOALUTH AT TALOR CLIFF WEYR! see his weyr
Age: 14
Radaavi, Journeyman Weaver
Sex: Male
Physical: 5'10", 170, golden skin with a sheen to it, light brown very curly and stylish hair to shoulders, reddish brown eyes. Evenly built, strong muscles and sure hands from working the looms. Loves wearing ostentatious clothing and everything he wears comes either from his own hands, or those of people he knows. He has actually been comissioned by Darkhanis to make items too.
Skills: weaving and hand working looms, embroidery and tailoring are a specialty. He loves working with silks (pernese equivalent from genetically altered worms, NOT sisal, that's NOT silk!) and satins, and has an eye for the right color for the right occasion. He has an affinity for good wines as well, but doesn't want to devote time to becoming a vintner when he's been Searched already!  Two crafts would be FAR too much for him. He is literate enough to have read about pattern making and cloth of the Ancients, their mysterious silvery clothes and plastics intrigue him. He will continue to be in the textile area even with a Dragon impressed to him, for any dragon who might choose him MUST be willing to arrive with him in style at parties!
Emotional: Very attentive to style, doting upon details and people alike. He is sensible and takes matters seriously when he isn't sure of the company, but then will go off about his own flaming way when he's with friends or alone. He is VERY comfortable with men or women alike, he has very high standards and chooses to be with people only after knowing them for quite a while.
Radaavi is a young son of a large family, most of his older relatives either went on to inherit parts of the smallish Hold, married other Holders, or like him, joined a respectable craft. In fact two of his brothers are vintners, and a sister is a highly sought after tailor.  Only one of his other siblings (there are eight) had been Searched, and he Impressed not long before Radaavi was.  Where Radaavi goes now is of little concern to his parents, they have no other Inheritances to pass out, and they are not really interested in dragons. He will make a colorful addition to any Weyr, and in fact could easily become a Master weaver if given the chance, but will also devote time and effort to learning all about dragons.
Radaavi's choices for dragons are probably Blue or Green, he is very flighty in ways and very stable in others, predictably flouncy. It is highly unlikely that he would warrant anything other than those colors.
Zhadar, Journeyman Beast Crafter (runnerbeasts) Visit his Weyr, Impressed Brown Aiuroboth at Blue Star Weyr
Sex: Male
Age: 20
Physical: 5'8", 150, fair to pale skintone, dark brown hair that is short on top and spiky, pale blue eyes. Good shoulders and otherwise long limbed build. Likes to wear flashy but good quality clothing, often dresses with sashes at his hip and rakish angles to the tunic he wears.
Skills: an expert at steed breeding, handling and racing. He is a good rider but places the health and welfare of the runner before his own, and also at the expense of winning all the time (he'd rather see a runner finish last than push it too far and injure it). He has lucid dreams a lot, and with them learns from his experiences much more quickly than others. He is literate and loves to draw and write about his runners, but also has a secret diary about his love for dragons. He can't hear them yet, but when the search rider came to his home area he distinctly felt everything else around tingling.
Emotional: he is highly empathic toward animals, with a lot of control ability that most runners tend to listen to. He has a stable personality, knows his place but knows that he wants to be in charge of things. Very organized, and pleasant to be around for both Holders and Weyrfolk.
Zhadar is the son of a Master miner (Ghean) and a dragon rider (Shard of blue Jeremoth) born early in the dragon rider's life. He was raised largely by his mother, and fostered on occsaion when she was unable to stay in the area. He was always around runners, and his abilities with them surfaced very early in his life. Finding lost foals, calling in goats and sheep, and even scaring away tunnel snakes and the occsaional wild cat were all things he did before he was ten turns old! He was searched recently and was surprised, not thinking that he was young enough for it any longer. He will certainly not need to stop doing his beast craft, while learning more about dragons, and he is in fact thinking about learning about dragon healing if he can.
Zhadar is a good candidate for a Bronze or Brown dragon, as he is stable and smart, organized and physically well suited to leadership, kind to his rides (the runners) and happy with most situations in life.
IMPRESSED GREEN ENABETH AT HYDEES!
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Bendelain, apprentice Starcrafter
Age: 15
Sex: female
Physical: 5'0", 95, reddish skin, short curled deeply red hair, brown red eyes. Cute round face, and very small build. Feminine and sweet, but still healthy for her size. Likes wearing pretty clothing, but often winds up in her favored well-worn leathers.
Skills: star gazing, reading the star stones and thread charts, as above, she is becoming a star-crafter. She will be able to predict Thread as it comes into season, but if there is no Thread falling she will still have fun with the skies, as she has an excellent concept of meteorology and weather. She is literate enough to know names for things that the Ancients used, and is absolutely intent on using the computers which are deep in the Southern continent. She is also something of a tinker, but more has her head in the clouds for other people to design around (a glider, perhaps?).
Emotional: calm and sensible, and always with her head in the clouds. She loves to watch the skies, the stars and learn about them, and has no fear of heights. She has been adragonback before, and purely loved it! She often dreams of flying, and has studied the flight of birds, dragons and flits, as well as bugs.
Bendelain is very young, and seems like she will remain a fun loving teenager forever. Even when she is doing her studies, she is smiling and loves every minute devoted to her tasks. She tackles even mundane work with a smile and determination. She was born to a pair in the Southern continent, but then moved north with a trade caravan. She has been handed to foster after foster, until winding up in the Paveh hold, where she was taken into the master Crafters area. Her curiosity and intelligence awarded her spots in the Apprentice seats when she was very young. Her education has been very narrow, however, so she doesn't care much for politics and the like. She has several half-siblings, none of whom she has ever met.
Bendelain has the heart of a Green dragon in mind, which will suit her flighty nature and mostly relieve her of the responsibilities of a Mating flight. She isn't much sure that she would handle that well, she is very shy about such things, and doesn't like it when the older men in a Hold or Weyr begin looking her pretty face over. For this reason, too, she would rather be among the Queen's wing of any flight, more comfortable around girls her age even though their educations might not be compatable. BENDELAIN HAS IMPRESSED GREEN ENABETH AT HYDEE'S DRAGONS!!!
Impressed GOLD Kiyath at Dragon Mount, Visit her Weyr
Ixoh, Holdborn
Age: 16 Sex: Female
Physical: 5'10", 140, rich tanned skin, red-black hair that is very curly and full, to her shoulders in stylish waves, deeply blue eyes. Slender and tall build, and extremely pretty face. Very stylish and careful about her appearance, even though she makes herself up in rakish or flouncy clothing on occasion.
Skills: trained as a Hold lady ought to be, in the Paveh hold. She knows how to make beautiful things with her hands and embroider properly, repair clothing and such, but she doesn't do much of it herself if she can help it. She is fairly physical, with training in basic self defense and she managed to convince Darkhanis to teach her the use of a sword as well. She has an uncanny eye with a crossbow, as well and loves to hunt when she's away from the Hold. Within it, however, she's the proper lady and always addresses people by their title and such, always making notes of their status and craft badges. She has an affinity for wine, but she also has a slight addiction to a (thankfully non-toxic) root found in the area.
Emotional: Short tempered, but smart enough to keep from getting into too much trouble because of that. She is level about certain things, and is very canny about keeping secrets: particularly hers.** She is much more sly than people often think, and is careful to remember everything about certain people and events, in case she needs to duck out quickly and not get into trouble.
**As for her "other" skills, Ixoh was privately trained by Darkhanis'  "people" to do spy work. She is ideal for such things, as she is clever and quick witted, and is more than pretty enough that people immediately want to trust her rather than shun her as a spy. She will always owe allegiance to the Paveh name, in any of its incarnations, and has done work with Alabaster Hold, and the Blackstone Hold as well.
Born priveledged in the Paveh Hold, Ixoh was instructed at an early age to learn what she could, and take whatever she needed to gain for herself. She is always aware of her position in a Hold, and when she finds herself Searched and Weyrbound she is very wary. She is giddy as the girl she really is, that she might Impress a dragon! But there are many other things on her mind as well. She is attracted to several men of the Holds she's been in, madly in love with a vintner named Zak, and eagerly looks forward to days when she might abandon her strangely secretive ways to become a dragon rider or mother. She has always had a healthy respect for Darkhanis and his people, and they will aid her if she needs help.
Ixoh could go for either a Green or Gold dragon, she has talent and intelligence, but is also quite hot tempered at times. She would ruthlessly defend the skies of Pern on either kind, and will greatly respect the responsibility of becoming a dragon rider either way.
Impressed Green Odoruth at Talor Cliff Weyr! Visit her here!
Sivoney, Entertainer (wandering Gypsy type)
Age: 14 Sex: Female
Physical: 5'6", 120, solidly built and very rounded in the right places, very dark charcoal-brown skin, very short well-kept jet black hair, and amazingly ebony eyes. She is fashionable without being pretentious, because she must either trade for or create all her own clothing. She owns two kinds of clothing: dancing and entertaining equipment, and hunting/stalking leathers. She is beautiful without having to try.
Skills: dancing, acrobatics, and the like. She is also adept at sleight of hand, thievery, pick pocketing, and fortune telling. She loves canines, and usually has at least two of them around her at all times, they provide an extra bit of security. She knows how to use her hands as weapons, but only will do so against someone who truly means her harm. She is above average in literacy, but knows more about symbols and can hand-sign for the deaf.
Emotional: Sivoney is careful and has been both revered and abused at the hands of her gypsy family. She is tender about certain points, such as who her father might be (she doesn't know) and why her mother died (she does know and won't say). She is quiet, but not shyly so, she is relatively strong willed but will do the sensible thing even if it might mean a painful or stressful encounter.
Sivoney has always been on the road. Her family is a rootless, shiftless type, and is rarely trusted to remain in a gather grounds for more than a sevenday before they're run out. They are usually responsible for petty theft, never stealing something that might come back to haunt them and never returning to the same place within a few years. They have occsaionally been called upon to do Lord Holders dirty work (killing, high theft) but Sivoney was never entrusted to do these things. Her mother was killed for such work, though it was her father -- a Lord Holder himself -- who was to blame. When they were en route to wherever they pleased, this large traveling group (her extended family runs into the dozens who travel with them, and many who do not) was met up with a dragon on Search. The Gold rider was unimpressed with Sivoney's family work, but the dragon insisted that she would make a good Candidate. Because Sivoney was still quite young, she was given off to the rider almost immediately and practically shoved out at that. She has her own things with her, and very little else, and does not trust that her family will either remember her, or help her if she needs it.
Sivoney might do best on a Green, the entertainment factor of a Gold is just too darn low. Though, she would make a good wing leader, as she has excellent perception skills and is quite physically strong and healthy.
Aynatchavay, Journeywoman Harper (Law), Impressed Gold Jyotirth at Artaq Weyr
Age: 20
Sex: Female
Physical: 5'8", 130, strongly muscled and well proportioned, medium brown skin, graphite black hair that is fluffy and kept back with stylish pins, bright teal shaded eyes that are very large. Wears only the best fabrics, and has a number of different clothes for many different occsaions.
Skills: extremely literate. She is a very good judge of character, and can tell how someone would be given different situations to a great degree. She has almost a savant at law, easily taking to each facet of Hold laws and how they affect one another, and how different Holds have new sets to compare with one another. She often arbitrates between minor Holds, wandering as a Harper would but with a higher calling. She is also very smart at clothing, style and hair, as well as make up and such, so she has been known to turn a farm girl into a holding Lady overnight (and has done so to prove a point to a particularly uptight Holder). She is physically quick on her feet, extremely nimble and her hands are very sure with long fingers. Her balance is excellent.
Emotional: sensible and very very smart. She is charismatic and enjoys being with high caliber Hold folk, as well as being able to carry out Harper duties with style. She cannot always be read by those who don't know her very well, she doesn't necessarily hide her feelings, but she doesn't show what she doesn't want to. She is compassionate and reasonable, and she wanted to get into the legal side of things to represent those who can't do it themselves.
Born in Paveh Hold and educated alongside Ixoh to a small extent, more with Darkhanis. She caught up with his Harper brought education within months, and his family supported her education since she was the daughter of a lower holder. (And not coincidentally the daughter of Vanya the master Healer of Ablan) She has several dozen extended relatives and half-siblings through both sides of her family, and visits with them when she can. She spent most of her youth learning and growing physically talented and challenged by the Hold's teachers. When she was Searched, she practically expected the family to refuse to send her, since her education always seemed to come first, but the rider and the Paveh hold folk came to an agreement: if she does Impress, then her Harper duties will be law through the Weyrs and relating to the Holders they protect; they will privately tutor her in such things even during her weyrling days if she does Impress.
Aynatchavay would look best, feel best, and work best aback a Gold. Pure and simple, she puts the values of the Pernese above her own gains at every moment, and should something come up between a Hold and Weyr, they are far more likely to take a Gold rider more seriously, than a Green. She herself has a tremendous respect for the riders and their mounts, and has only felt the touch of a dragon's mind twice.
Lakh and Saras are candidates at Xaviea Weyr
Age: 16
Lakhshmi Marad, Apprentice Healer
Sex: Female
Physical: 5'6", 120, long and slender build, long legs, golden brown skin always with tan lines from being out a lot, silvery black hair that is wavy and full, to lower back, light sea-green eyes. Very straight posture and aware appearing. Likes wearing very little, if she's forced to wear a piece of clothing, it's often baggy and off the shoulder, though usually is pleasant to look at.
Skills: health care specialist for mothers, she loves midwifery and is very talented at it. However, she has a darker side to her activities, she has been known to slip poison in someone's drink, in order to subdue them for rewards, in other words she is also a practicing bounty hunter. She favors monetary and tangible rewards to those which political targets might offer. She is very very good at spotting the people she hunts, as well as finding items that have been either lost, misplaced or hidden (her perception is excellent!).
Emotional: smooth personality, and very cheery. Not always on the ball for subtle politics, but usually up front about things like who she likes, who she hates, and if she cares they know. She is a caregiver for those in need, but she is rarely hesitant about getting things for herself. She and her cousin get along famously, even though they're always competing for who's the most important or impressive.
Lakhshmi and Sarasvati's histories are described together below.
Sarasvati Marad, apprentice Healer Age: 16
Sex: Female
Physical: 5'7", 125, muscular and very well built, rakish postures and bawdy expressions are part of appearance. Golden brown skin slightly lighter than her cousin's, graphite black hair that is stringy and often tied loosely and kept to the middle of her back, storm cloud green-grey eyes always looking over her shoulder. She usually has something dangling off her clothing, be it a wine skin, an animal's pelt or something less nice. She dares you to comment on it.
Skills: is only in the healing because that way she learns how to hurt people. She has already been trained to heal injuries, but now under the guise of  "enforcing family political views" she has been taught how to turn her arts into a dangerous lesson for those who cross Paveh. She also has a keen mind for gadgets and is first on Darkhanis' list of young associates for his journeys to the South to visit this new thing Aivas. Perhaps she'll become a computer engineer in another lifetime.
Emotional: hot tempered and shrill, very open about being dangerous. Attentive to and almost obsessive about details, if she learns something and then hears someone else mistakenly quoting about it she won't hesitate to correct them. Loudly. She is manipulative and shrewd in social situations, totally opposite of her cousin.
Lakhshmi and Sarasvati are cousins who resemble one another greatly, since their mothers and fathers are both twins. Kali and Shakti are their mothers, respectively, and Havish and Keshtel their fathers. Both of them go way back in the Paveh line, though their fathers are fairly low-status in the Hold otherwise. They were raised together by their parents and taught by those who also teach the rest of the Paveh clan, and a rivalry grew into deep affection for both of them as they got older. They will defend each other to the death, and if one is near, the other is often around the corner. That is not saying they never spend time apart, they value their own lives as much as their togetherness. Lakh often brings her bounty to her cousin for "treatment", before sending them to the Paveh Lord Holder who requested their presence.
Though both are indeed healers to a great degree, and both can easily treat most sickness or obvious wounds, neither of them would really be trusted to become a Master healer, unless some really strange people get on the committee.
When they were searched it was as a pair, of course, the dragon using his brown head to butt them into the courtyard for examination. Excited and at the same time oddly unused to this kind of action, they requested time to visit the Weyr and see if they should stand on the sands, let alone if they had what it takes to ride.
Of course they do. They would never settle for anything less. Again, like Aynatchavay, they will be afforded tutoring in their Craft should they Impress, and it is expected that if one of them does Impress, the other will as well.
As for the colors they might Impress, Lakhshmi is geared for a Gold or Green, she isn't sure how much energy either of them would have to keep up with her own. She is more down to earth, and has a solid idea of who ought to be in charge of what in a Weyr, even though her Hold politics are shaky at best.  Sarasvati on the other hand might Impress a Green or even a Blue, given her predisposition for female lovers and aggressive ones at that. She wouldn't settle to be in only a Queen's wing, either, were she afforded the chance, she would be out in the thick of it, blasting Thread at the top of her own lungs!