Myria-Rayna Lanart y Aillard

  • Age: 27
  • Marital Status: celibate
  • Occupation: Keeper
  • Residence: Neskaya Tower
  • Politics: conservative, but pragmatic
  • Abilities
    • Unarmed Combat: nil (The physical kind, that is. And she hasn't had much call to practice the psychic kind; this isn't the Age of Chaos, you know.)
    • Armed Combat: nil
    • Horseback Riding: good
    • Interpersonal skills: somewhat rusty
    • Laran strength and training: very strong telepathy, Alton gift; trained as Keeper and Technician
  • Appearance: red-gold hair, grey eyes; small, delicate-boned
  • Romantic relationships: none (once, you might have been killed for even asking such a question...)
  • Friends: her sister Margali, cousin Piedro Aillard-Syrtis, Jorik Hastur, Elorie Kyrielle MacNyrie, Marco Alton
  • Hobbies: reading, embroidery, genealogy research, studying alternate laran techniques
  • Family Trees: Lanart, Aillard
  • E-mail: neskaya@hotmail.com
  • ICQ #37264741
  • AOL IM: MyriaL
  • Links: Myria's private study; See Myria as a Magic card
About Myria
Myria-Rayna Cassilda Julia Lanart y Aillard, teneresteis of Neskaya Tower, is one of the most powerful women on Darkover. But her respected position comes at the price of living the restricted life of a keeper. To those who see her in the formal robes of a keeper, Myria seems ageless, but in fact she is still in her twenties. Myria's family, the Lanarts, are an independent clan of minor Darkovan nobility.

Myria began laran training at age 13, when she spent a season in Neskaya under the teaching of its previous Keeper, Viviana Hastur. After talking the Monitor's Oath, she transferred to Arilinn Tower, where she trained to become a keeper, the focus of a matrix circle. A keeper lives a protected, cloistered life. She can never have sexual contact with another person, because her laran channels must remain clear to carry the load of energons. She refrains from all but the most distant physical contact with other people. When Myria was 17, her mentor, Margali of Neskaya, died. Despite her youth, Myria was the only person with the training to fill her position in Neskaya.

Myria and Jorik
Jorik Hastur fell in love with Myria when they were both training in Arilinn. However, Jorik became betrothed to Congratulatia, and Myria decided to take the vows of a keeper. Jorik sometimes thinks that he still loves Myria. As for Myria, she never suspects his feelings, because she is too naive to think that a man would desire her when she is forbidden to have such a relationship, being a keeper.

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