Post by Mik on Dec 1, 2010 14:33:08 GMT -5
Persona information (Updated: 12-1-2010)
Name: Caid (Revecaid) (formerly R'caid)
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Rank: Dragonless (Bronze) Flit Breeder/Senior Journeyman Trader
Birthplace: Fort Weyr
Family: Mother: Revelean of Myrith (greenrider-deceased)
Father: J'caid (Jerecaid) of Hylth (brownrider-deceased)
Siblings: R'vaid (Revaid) of Justh (bluerider-deceased), L'rey (Leanrey) of Zeroth (bronzerider-deceased)
Significant others: Jaya of Talith (greenrider-deceased)
Personality: Caid used to be fun loving, carefree, and wild until he met little bronze Chymerath. The bossy bronze turned him into a responsible and proud Weyrling, but he never saw the rank of dragonrider, was never placed in a wing, for Chymerath had been taken by the Plague. Having seen so many die, Caid has mellowed down a lot, but yet he still graces a smile for his firelizards refuse to see him upset and so keep his mind active and cheery with their images. To most folk, Caid is a normal young man searching for a home, but only riders who have seen the hollow looks can tell that he's dragonless by that little bit of distance in his eyes, although he won't hold back such valuable information if it's asked of him by the right people. He walks with confidence and purpose despite his lost dragon and several firelizards and is more often than not keeping his hands busy at something, whether it be oiling or bathing his firelizards or working on his leathers or doing a task for someone else. So, Caid's cheery and looks to the bright side of things as often as possible and can be a good friend. One of the fortunate few to have survived Tristar Weyr's destruction, had it not been for his firelizards, he would have never been found, trapped beneath a landslide with a broken leg, and so he looks to the bright side of things even more so, coming across as someone who had never actually seen or felt losses as great as he had...
Physical description: Caid is a rather handsome man, standing tall and still maintaining a typical dragonrider's lean build. His dirty blonde hair leans more toward golden and is kept in a neat runnertail that reaches midback. Sky blue eyes seem to reflect more than show their depths and stand out strikingly against his tanned complexion and a clean shaven face. He still wears his wherhides of browns and tans from his riding days and his flight gear is always somewhere quick to find and often checked for wear and tear. Bronze Weyrling knots still stand proudly on the shoulder of his flight jacket. Boots worn from traveling grace his feet but he's hoping to get a hold of some new ones because they've about seen their end. A beltknife always rests at his side and it has become habit to keep it sheathed under his pillow in case of a wild creature attack in the night.
History: Born Revecaid to a pair of riders at Fort Weyr, Caid was your typical weyrbrat, mischief causing with the innocence to get out of any sort of trouble he weaseled himself into. His first words centered around dragons and, more oddly, firelizards, so it wasn't uncommon to see the little 'brat hounding some rider's heels for a chance to touch their dragon or shadowing a worker or Crafter that happened to have a firelizard in the chance to pet and hold one, more often the latter.
And so it was no surprise that for his 8th birthing day he was given a flitter egg and wouldn't you know that egg hatched that day! A tiny little green that he wasted no time in calling Shade due to her darker coloring. Yep, she was his everything from then on out.
At 12 turns and just about into Candidacy, his father died in a flight accident and he turned down Candidacy for a while to handle his grief.
At 13, Caid won a bet with a rider about a hatching and in return, was given a flitter egg: his greatest drive. Something about the miniature dragons just attracted him like bugs to a glow. And from that egg came Myra, named after his mother's dragon, an obsessive and bossy gold, but she was Caid's and that was that.
At 15, Caid's mother decided a move was in order, having spent the last couple of turns grieving for her lost lover and dreading every time her dragon rose, so they headed to High Reaches Weyr with Caid's two younger brothers as well. Shortly after arriving at High Reaches Weyr, Shade clutched and of her eggs, Caid kept one, it turning out to be another little green of whom he named Jade for her coloring justified that.
At 16, he finally threw his hand at Candidacy and Stood for every clutch upon the Sands, but no dragonet ever came to him. Both his brothers managed to Impress at the same clutch when Caid was 17 and once again, Caid Stood upon the Sands dragonless once all had hatched.
Myra clutched in Caid's 18th turn and insisted that Caid keep a certain egg and so he did, not knowing that the egg held another gold until Cai came of that egg, named after Caid's father in memory of him.
While waiting for a chance at a dragonet, Caid did happen to fall for a greenrider and had gotten quite intimate with her, often found helping her with any of her duties that he could.
20 was the turning point for Caid. Bronze Reve hatched from another of Myra's clutches and all that Standing paid off not a few months after. Bronze Chymerath chose Caid and his name changed to R'caid.
Then good fortune and merriness started going Between. A few dragons grew ill and went Between forever and at 21, just 11 months into Weyrlinghood, Chymerath grew ill and Caid feared the worst only to see it happen just one month shy of Graduation. One month!! His awesome bronze struggled for flight one last time to leave Pern and Caid behind forever and Caid lost all interaction with others save for his flitters.
He regained his socialness early in his 22nd turn and took on the name of Caid then, unable to go back to Revecaid and unable to continue on as R'caid. Then his youngest brother's bronze Betweened, leaving his brother in a state of incoherent grief. Then Jade and Reve both took ill at nearly the same time and Caid relived Chymerath's passing with his firelizards. Green and bronze both Betweened the same day and candlemark, both regrettably leaving their Pet behind, Jade's whistle of "it'll be okay" the biggest memory of the day.
At 23 his blueriding brother and a still somewhat active dragon Betweened in miscalculation and keens followed them from the skies. Following soon after that Betweening went his mother's green who had been another victim to the rapidly spreading Plague. Not even a day after the green's Betweening, Caid's mother went crazy and killed herself at the end of a knife fight, dragging another rider with her and his dragon Between. Topping off the losses of that turn was Myra with an apologetic good-bye before she slipped away Between. Caid was left with only Shade and Cai and a half alive brother. Things just had to get better and a sliver of hope came near Turn's End when Cai laid a tiny clutch and of the hatchlings, a bossy little brown chose to stay and was named after Caid's lost dragon in happiness. Things were starting to look up a little!
Or so he thought, but his 24th turn brought on his brother's suicide and his lover's Betweening from the Plague and he was left alone with only his firelizards and a slim chance of living on himself.
At 25, Caid took to traveling, hoping to find a better place to belong to and his journey on foot between the Weyrs began then.
While at the abandoned Igen Weyr in his 26th turn, Shade clutched and so they stayed until the eggs hatched as Shade never left Caid's sight and so knew the eggs to be her own. Among the hatchlings, one little blue stayed behind and merrily walked right off a log, then proceeded to dart about after this bug or that, this scent or that and so earned the name Blitz and has been comical relief more times than Caid can count, easily drawing smiles from the young man.
At 28, Caid has decided to face the music and wanted to be among dragons again and so he found his way to Tristar Weyr, falling in with the company of some rather excitable GlassSmith lads and there has seldom been any chance at feeling upset over Chymerath and those others Caid has lost. As luck would have it, Tristar Weyr accepted the dragonless man and he found a new title as the Weyr's firelizard breeder.
All went well among dragons again until the Disaster that shook apart Tristar Weyr. Caid had been getting some supplies for the firelizards in his care when he was caught in a landslide. Shade kept close to him and Cai, Chymer, and Blitz all hovered over the debris, finding the first person they could to help them dig him out. Caid doesn't quite remember who had helped him out of the rubble, but he was glad for it, even though the result had been a broken right leg below his knee.
In the 3 turns since then, his leg has healed with minimal scarring and he has surprisingly not gained any further firelizards, but it is only a matter of time before Cai chooses an egg that is Caid's and only Caid's again. Until then, he is perfectly happy caring for the Weyr's firelizards when he is needed, the best thing that a dragonless man could ask for instead of having idle hands. With the Holder attacks still going on, he is more than happy to make another move. Anything to keep from hearing the keens of lost dragons and riders as much as possible for they still hurt that 11 turn old memory of his awesome bronze Chymerath.
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Dragon information
Name: Chymerath
Age: 14 Months (at Betweening)
Colour: Bronze
Wing or Weyrling group:
Birthhome: High Reaches Weyr
Dam/Sire: Gold Chancith/Bronze Leith
Personality: Hot tempered like no other, Chymerath was a handful plus some. He NEVER accepted the fact that something had been his fault. He was ALWAYS the innocent one. Bossy to no end, this big bronze wouldn't take no from anyone, even golds. It's a wonder he managed through Weyrlinghood as far as he had gotten. He had a rare occurrence of taking advice, but only ever when it came from His. Anyone else tried to give him advice and it was like talking to a rock ledge. Nobody home! The only exception to his attitude was in his last few sevendays of life when he had become apologetic and encouraging, not a trace of bossiness or high mightiness. It was as if he was trying to make amends for all his wrongdoings and had he made it through the plague, he may just have become one of the greatest bronzes around, but Faranth had another plan for him.
Physical description: Chymerath was a rather handsome bronze with rather decent proportions. He was of good breeding and it showed even in his young age for he "fit" together nearly by the books. With a hide of gleaming honey bronze, there was no hiding for this rather big bronze, but hiding he never did. His wingspan was massive and not too long or short or narrow or broad. He was built like the long ago descriptions had mentioned and he stayed noble up until his last days, keeping that awesome coloring even as he flew for the last time to drag himself Between.
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Pet information
Name: Cai
Age: 13
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Gold
Personality: Of the last clutch of Myra's, Cai was only a hatchling before her dam went Between, but her youth and fear of the Plague kept her close to Caid and that was where she stayed. She's quite the chatterbox when left to her own devices and has been the root of a few 'problems' here and there, but she's hardly protective of her Pet. She sees Shade more as her dam than anything and tends to stick close to the green whenever she can. When she rises, she's cheerful and dangerous and her clutches are hers only. No one but Shade and Cai can touch them until they're ready to hatch. Aside from that, she has been found playing with Blitz on occasion just for the sake of doing something other than the normal.
Physical description: Gleaming like her dam, but not nearly as bright. Cai's more of a glowing gold than anything, seeming to light up everything when she rises. She's lean, if not a bit gaunt on occasion, but it's only because she's not one to sit still all day long. She HAS to be doing SOMETHING. Being the beauty she is, she likes to preen and so keeps herself rather stunning to look at.
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Name: Chymer
Age: 8
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Brown
Personality: Bossy like his namesake, Chymer was from one of Cai's clutches and had decided to stick around instead of go wild. He thinks he needs constant attention from Caid and when he's not being the star of Caid's attention, he's off making problems with Blitz. Constantly getting dirty, he needs baths quite frequently and marvels in the length of time Caid gives him then, for Caid takes great care when bathing his flitters.
Physical description: A dusky looking brown, Chymer has a bit of a glow about his hide from the underlying darkness of his hide. He's eye catching with his fancy darker patches about his face and legs and he's built to Impress with a handsome head and a stocky body. His wings are a bit long, but all things considered, he's charmingly well put together.
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Name: Blitz
Age: 5
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Blue
Personality: Hatched from one of Shade's more recent clutches, Blitz is everything his name explains. He's practically a carbon copy of Caid's bronze Reve who had succumbed to the Plague, for Blitz can often be found up to no good. He's even mastered his appearance into the world by walking right off a log that he had been placed on, just like the bronze had done. Blitz is a cheerful sight and quite the mischief maker and mayhem master. He keeps Caid well on his toes and is extremely cheery when the situation calls for it.
Physical description: Much like his dam, Blitz has a dark multi-shaded hide that shimmers, glows, and shines depending on the lighting and even has the odd patches of shading that Reve had had. He's tiny as well, quite small for a blue, but decently proportioned with an unusually long tail that is constantly getting wrapped about something to keep the active flitter from falling off his perches.
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Name: Shade
Age: 23
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Green
Personality: The very first firelizard of Caid's and one of his two survivors of that dreaded Plague that took dragon, flit, and wher. Shade is a chatterbox or a quiet comforting trill. She's very sensitive to her Pet's feelings and is ALWAYS there to cheer him up or play. Shade never leaves Caid's presence even for a moment. When she was younger, she would flitter off randomly for a few minutes, but never for long. Since the Plague, she has yet to even wink Between to be away from her Pet for even a heartbeat. She is his lifeline that keeps him on Pern and will always be for even when the slightest sadness touches the former rider's mind, Shade is right there to comfort and cheer. Hardly protective of Caid, she'll allow anyone to approach, so long as they don't hurt him. She freely shares her Pet with the other flitters, but her place is always on his left shoulder, closest to his heart.
Physical description: Beautiful and eye catching easily describe this little green. She's tiny for a green, but hard to miss with her dark speckled hide of so many shades of green that she seems to shimmer and shine or even glow depending on the lighting. Her hide is solid, yet 'broken' along her well built body. When she breathes or blinks even, her whole hide ripples with her shading, making her appear to grow or throw one's eyesight away from her a moment like she really wasn't right there. Her head and neck are graceful, her legs long and lean, her body lean, her wings when spread are perfectly shaped for her size. She's practically book perfect from the hides of old.
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Name: Reve (gone)
Age: 2 (at Betweening)
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Bronze
Personality: Hatched from one of Myra's last clutches, Reve was nothing like his dam. He was mischievous and troublesome from day one, when he conveniently walked right off the edge of a table top. This little bronze had an occasional responsible heir to him, but 23 marks out of the day, he was up to no good. Clean up until his last few days when the Plague had taken hold of him, Reve was a cheerful little thing and he even chirped a rather cheerful farewell before he drifted away after Jade's Betweening, having been rather close to the green.
Physical description: Shimmery bronze all over, this rather gangly looking bronze was a character wherever he went. His paws were of different shades of darker bronze. His right wing held a pale bronze color where the other seemed nearly golden. Complete with a funny splash of honey bronze about his head and a tail so dark, he must have dipped it into something in his adventures. He remained his funny shaded colors clean up until his last days when he took on a slightly less shimmer before disappearing Between.
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Name: Jade (gone)
Age: 7 (at Betweening)
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Green
Personality: Hatched from one of Shade's clutches, Jade had the same easy-going attitude as her dam and it showed as she willingly shared her Pet with the other firelizards and even with Chymerath, but she held a special place to Caid and she knew it for she could make him smile with a soft, musical trill and a teasing wink of her eye, followed by a full body ripple of her multi-shaded hide. She grew more and more quiet in her last days and Betweened the same day Reve had.
Physical description: Dark and mystical, Jade had an unreal aura about her. Her hide was speckled in so many shades of green that one could swear she was playing tricks on their eyes if they looked at her too long. A breath made her appear to grow or ripple. A muscle twitch sent one's eyes astray from the beauty of the little thing for she was little, her dam having the same size and coloring. Her tininess was most noticed in her last days when a breath or a muscle twitch would seem to move her dulling hide until she finally "faded away" Between in sorrow.
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Name: Myra (gone)
Age: 10 (at Betweening)
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Gold
Personality: Possessive to no end, Caid was Myra's and no one else's and she made it known even to the bossy bronze that Caid had managed to Impress. She was first in line and that was that (even though Shade preceded her), yet she did accept the fact that she had to share her Pet with the other firelizards. But when she grew ill or frightened, she would cuddle against her Pet until his own beating heart lulled her to sleep. Her last days were spent unusually quiet and content curled upon Caid's lap until she finally Betweened with apology.
Physical description: Shining bright gold, Myra was hard to miss as she zipped about on some mission or another for her own profit. She was a bit pudgy for a firelizard, but she glowed intensely during her flights and was hard to look at, her pudginess hardly slowing her down.
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Crafter information
Craft name: Trading
Rank in craft: Journeyman
Specialty (if one): Bargaining/Flitter Eggs
Turns in craft: 6 turns
Where studied: All Over the North
Name: Caid (Revecaid) (formerly R'caid)
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Rank: Dragonless (Bronze) Flit Breeder/Senior Journeyman Trader
Birthplace: Fort Weyr
Family: Mother: Revelean of Myrith (greenrider-deceased)
Father: J'caid (Jerecaid) of Hylth (brownrider-deceased)
Siblings: R'vaid (Revaid) of Justh (bluerider-deceased), L'rey (Leanrey) of Zeroth (bronzerider-deceased)
Significant others: Jaya of Talith (greenrider-deceased)
Personality: Caid used to be fun loving, carefree, and wild until he met little bronze Chymerath. The bossy bronze turned him into a responsible and proud Weyrling, but he never saw the rank of dragonrider, was never placed in a wing, for Chymerath had been taken by the Plague. Having seen so many die, Caid has mellowed down a lot, but yet he still graces a smile for his firelizards refuse to see him upset and so keep his mind active and cheery with their images. To most folk, Caid is a normal young man searching for a home, but only riders who have seen the hollow looks can tell that he's dragonless by that little bit of distance in his eyes, although he won't hold back such valuable information if it's asked of him by the right people. He walks with confidence and purpose despite his lost dragon and several firelizards and is more often than not keeping his hands busy at something, whether it be oiling or bathing his firelizards or working on his leathers or doing a task for someone else. So, Caid's cheery and looks to the bright side of things as often as possible and can be a good friend. One of the fortunate few to have survived Tristar Weyr's destruction, had it not been for his firelizards, he would have never been found, trapped beneath a landslide with a broken leg, and so he looks to the bright side of things even more so, coming across as someone who had never actually seen or felt losses as great as he had...
Physical description: Caid is a rather handsome man, standing tall and still maintaining a typical dragonrider's lean build. His dirty blonde hair leans more toward golden and is kept in a neat runnertail that reaches midback. Sky blue eyes seem to reflect more than show their depths and stand out strikingly against his tanned complexion and a clean shaven face. He still wears his wherhides of browns and tans from his riding days and his flight gear is always somewhere quick to find and often checked for wear and tear. Bronze Weyrling knots still stand proudly on the shoulder of his flight jacket. Boots worn from traveling grace his feet but he's hoping to get a hold of some new ones because they've about seen their end. A beltknife always rests at his side and it has become habit to keep it sheathed under his pillow in case of a wild creature attack in the night.
History: Born Revecaid to a pair of riders at Fort Weyr, Caid was your typical weyrbrat, mischief causing with the innocence to get out of any sort of trouble he weaseled himself into. His first words centered around dragons and, more oddly, firelizards, so it wasn't uncommon to see the little 'brat hounding some rider's heels for a chance to touch their dragon or shadowing a worker or Crafter that happened to have a firelizard in the chance to pet and hold one, more often the latter.
And so it was no surprise that for his 8th birthing day he was given a flitter egg and wouldn't you know that egg hatched that day! A tiny little green that he wasted no time in calling Shade due to her darker coloring. Yep, she was his everything from then on out.
At 12 turns and just about into Candidacy, his father died in a flight accident and he turned down Candidacy for a while to handle his grief.
At 13, Caid won a bet with a rider about a hatching and in return, was given a flitter egg: his greatest drive. Something about the miniature dragons just attracted him like bugs to a glow. And from that egg came Myra, named after his mother's dragon, an obsessive and bossy gold, but she was Caid's and that was that.
At 15, Caid's mother decided a move was in order, having spent the last couple of turns grieving for her lost lover and dreading every time her dragon rose, so they headed to High Reaches Weyr with Caid's two younger brothers as well. Shortly after arriving at High Reaches Weyr, Shade clutched and of her eggs, Caid kept one, it turning out to be another little green of whom he named Jade for her coloring justified that.
At 16, he finally threw his hand at Candidacy and Stood for every clutch upon the Sands, but no dragonet ever came to him. Both his brothers managed to Impress at the same clutch when Caid was 17 and once again, Caid Stood upon the Sands dragonless once all had hatched.
Myra clutched in Caid's 18th turn and insisted that Caid keep a certain egg and so he did, not knowing that the egg held another gold until Cai came of that egg, named after Caid's father in memory of him.
While waiting for a chance at a dragonet, Caid did happen to fall for a greenrider and had gotten quite intimate with her, often found helping her with any of her duties that he could.
20 was the turning point for Caid. Bronze Reve hatched from another of Myra's clutches and all that Standing paid off not a few months after. Bronze Chymerath chose Caid and his name changed to R'caid.
Then good fortune and merriness started going Between. A few dragons grew ill and went Between forever and at 21, just 11 months into Weyrlinghood, Chymerath grew ill and Caid feared the worst only to see it happen just one month shy of Graduation. One month!! His awesome bronze struggled for flight one last time to leave Pern and Caid behind forever and Caid lost all interaction with others save for his flitters.
He regained his socialness early in his 22nd turn and took on the name of Caid then, unable to go back to Revecaid and unable to continue on as R'caid. Then his youngest brother's bronze Betweened, leaving his brother in a state of incoherent grief. Then Jade and Reve both took ill at nearly the same time and Caid relived Chymerath's passing with his firelizards. Green and bronze both Betweened the same day and candlemark, both regrettably leaving their Pet behind, Jade's whistle of "it'll be okay" the biggest memory of the day.
At 23 his blueriding brother and a still somewhat active dragon Betweened in miscalculation and keens followed them from the skies. Following soon after that Betweening went his mother's green who had been another victim to the rapidly spreading Plague. Not even a day after the green's Betweening, Caid's mother went crazy and killed herself at the end of a knife fight, dragging another rider with her and his dragon Between. Topping off the losses of that turn was Myra with an apologetic good-bye before she slipped away Between. Caid was left with only Shade and Cai and a half alive brother. Things just had to get better and a sliver of hope came near Turn's End when Cai laid a tiny clutch and of the hatchlings, a bossy little brown chose to stay and was named after Caid's lost dragon in happiness. Things were starting to look up a little!
Or so he thought, but his 24th turn brought on his brother's suicide and his lover's Betweening from the Plague and he was left alone with only his firelizards and a slim chance of living on himself.
At 25, Caid took to traveling, hoping to find a better place to belong to and his journey on foot between the Weyrs began then.
While at the abandoned Igen Weyr in his 26th turn, Shade clutched and so they stayed until the eggs hatched as Shade never left Caid's sight and so knew the eggs to be her own. Among the hatchlings, one little blue stayed behind and merrily walked right off a log, then proceeded to dart about after this bug or that, this scent or that and so earned the name Blitz and has been comical relief more times than Caid can count, easily drawing smiles from the young man.
At 28, Caid has decided to face the music and wanted to be among dragons again and so he found his way to Tristar Weyr, falling in with the company of some rather excitable GlassSmith lads and there has seldom been any chance at feeling upset over Chymerath and those others Caid has lost. As luck would have it, Tristar Weyr accepted the dragonless man and he found a new title as the Weyr's firelizard breeder.
All went well among dragons again until the Disaster that shook apart Tristar Weyr. Caid had been getting some supplies for the firelizards in his care when he was caught in a landslide. Shade kept close to him and Cai, Chymer, and Blitz all hovered over the debris, finding the first person they could to help them dig him out. Caid doesn't quite remember who had helped him out of the rubble, but he was glad for it, even though the result had been a broken right leg below his knee.
In the 3 turns since then, his leg has healed with minimal scarring and he has surprisingly not gained any further firelizards, but it is only a matter of time before Cai chooses an egg that is Caid's and only Caid's again. Until then, he is perfectly happy caring for the Weyr's firelizards when he is needed, the best thing that a dragonless man could ask for instead of having idle hands. With the Holder attacks still going on, he is more than happy to make another move. Anything to keep from hearing the keens of lost dragons and riders as much as possible for they still hurt that 11 turn old memory of his awesome bronze Chymerath.
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Dragon information
Name: Chymerath
Age: 14 Months (at Betweening)
Colour: Bronze
Wing or Weyrling group:
Birthhome: High Reaches Weyr
Dam/Sire: Gold Chancith/Bronze Leith
Personality: Hot tempered like no other, Chymerath was a handful plus some. He NEVER accepted the fact that something had been his fault. He was ALWAYS the innocent one. Bossy to no end, this big bronze wouldn't take no from anyone, even golds. It's a wonder he managed through Weyrlinghood as far as he had gotten. He had a rare occurrence of taking advice, but only ever when it came from His. Anyone else tried to give him advice and it was like talking to a rock ledge. Nobody home! The only exception to his attitude was in his last few sevendays of life when he had become apologetic and encouraging, not a trace of bossiness or high mightiness. It was as if he was trying to make amends for all his wrongdoings and had he made it through the plague, he may just have become one of the greatest bronzes around, but Faranth had another plan for him.
Physical description: Chymerath was a rather handsome bronze with rather decent proportions. He was of good breeding and it showed even in his young age for he "fit" together nearly by the books. With a hide of gleaming honey bronze, there was no hiding for this rather big bronze, but hiding he never did. His wingspan was massive and not too long or short or narrow or broad. He was built like the long ago descriptions had mentioned and he stayed noble up until his last days, keeping that awesome coloring even as he flew for the last time to drag himself Between.
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Pet information
Name: Cai
Age: 13
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Gold
Personality: Of the last clutch of Myra's, Cai was only a hatchling before her dam went Between, but her youth and fear of the Plague kept her close to Caid and that was where she stayed. She's quite the chatterbox when left to her own devices and has been the root of a few 'problems' here and there, but she's hardly protective of her Pet. She sees Shade more as her dam than anything and tends to stick close to the green whenever she can. When she rises, she's cheerful and dangerous and her clutches are hers only. No one but Shade and Cai can touch them until they're ready to hatch. Aside from that, she has been found playing with Blitz on occasion just for the sake of doing something other than the normal.
Physical description: Gleaming like her dam, but not nearly as bright. Cai's more of a glowing gold than anything, seeming to light up everything when she rises. She's lean, if not a bit gaunt on occasion, but it's only because she's not one to sit still all day long. She HAS to be doing SOMETHING. Being the beauty she is, she likes to preen and so keeps herself rather stunning to look at.
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Name: Chymer
Age: 8
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Brown
Personality: Bossy like his namesake, Chymer was from one of Cai's clutches and had decided to stick around instead of go wild. He thinks he needs constant attention from Caid and when he's not being the star of Caid's attention, he's off making problems with Blitz. Constantly getting dirty, he needs baths quite frequently and marvels in the length of time Caid gives him then, for Caid takes great care when bathing his flitters.
Physical description: A dusky looking brown, Chymer has a bit of a glow about his hide from the underlying darkness of his hide. He's eye catching with his fancy darker patches about his face and legs and he's built to Impress with a handsome head and a stocky body. His wings are a bit long, but all things considered, he's charmingly well put together.
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Name: Blitz
Age: 5
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Blue
Personality: Hatched from one of Shade's more recent clutches, Blitz is everything his name explains. He's practically a carbon copy of Caid's bronze Reve who had succumbed to the Plague, for Blitz can often be found up to no good. He's even mastered his appearance into the world by walking right off a log that he had been placed on, just like the bronze had done. Blitz is a cheerful sight and quite the mischief maker and mayhem master. He keeps Caid well on his toes and is extremely cheery when the situation calls for it.
Physical description: Much like his dam, Blitz has a dark multi-shaded hide that shimmers, glows, and shines depending on the lighting and even has the odd patches of shading that Reve had had. He's tiny as well, quite small for a blue, but decently proportioned with an unusually long tail that is constantly getting wrapped about something to keep the active flitter from falling off his perches.
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Name: Shade
Age: 23
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Green
Personality: The very first firelizard of Caid's and one of his two survivors of that dreaded Plague that took dragon, flit, and wher. Shade is a chatterbox or a quiet comforting trill. She's very sensitive to her Pet's feelings and is ALWAYS there to cheer him up or play. Shade never leaves Caid's presence even for a moment. When she was younger, she would flitter off randomly for a few minutes, but never for long. Since the Plague, she has yet to even wink Between to be away from her Pet for even a heartbeat. She is his lifeline that keeps him on Pern and will always be for even when the slightest sadness touches the former rider's mind, Shade is right there to comfort and cheer. Hardly protective of Caid, she'll allow anyone to approach, so long as they don't hurt him. She freely shares her Pet with the other flitters, but her place is always on his left shoulder, closest to his heart.
Physical description: Beautiful and eye catching easily describe this little green. She's tiny for a green, but hard to miss with her dark speckled hide of so many shades of green that she seems to shimmer and shine or even glow depending on the lighting. Her hide is solid, yet 'broken' along her well built body. When she breathes or blinks even, her whole hide ripples with her shading, making her appear to grow or throw one's eyesight away from her a moment like she really wasn't right there. Her head and neck are graceful, her legs long and lean, her body lean, her wings when spread are perfectly shaped for her size. She's practically book perfect from the hides of old.
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Name: Reve (gone)
Age: 2 (at Betweening)
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Bronze
Personality: Hatched from one of Myra's last clutches, Reve was nothing like his dam. He was mischievous and troublesome from day one, when he conveniently walked right off the edge of a table top. This little bronze had an occasional responsible heir to him, but 23 marks out of the day, he was up to no good. Clean up until his last few days when the Plague had taken hold of him, Reve was a cheerful little thing and he even chirped a rather cheerful farewell before he drifted away after Jade's Betweening, having been rather close to the green.
Physical description: Shimmery bronze all over, this rather gangly looking bronze was a character wherever he went. His paws were of different shades of darker bronze. His right wing held a pale bronze color where the other seemed nearly golden. Complete with a funny splash of honey bronze about his head and a tail so dark, he must have dipped it into something in his adventures. He remained his funny shaded colors clean up until his last days when he took on a slightly less shimmer before disappearing Between.
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Name: Jade (gone)
Age: 7 (at Betweening)
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Green
Personality: Hatched from one of Shade's clutches, Jade had the same easy-going attitude as her dam and it showed as she willingly shared her Pet with the other firelizards and even with Chymerath, but she held a special place to Caid and she knew it for she could make him smile with a soft, musical trill and a teasing wink of her eye, followed by a full body ripple of her multi-shaded hide. She grew more and more quiet in her last days and Betweened the same day Reve had.
Physical description: Dark and mystical, Jade had an unreal aura about her. Her hide was speckled in so many shades of green that one could swear she was playing tricks on their eyes if they looked at her too long. A breath made her appear to grow or ripple. A muscle twitch sent one's eyes astray from the beauty of the little thing for she was little, her dam having the same size and coloring. Her tininess was most noticed in her last days when a breath or a muscle twitch would seem to move her dulling hide until she finally "faded away" Between in sorrow.
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Name: Myra (gone)
Age: 10 (at Betweening)
Type: Firelizard
Colour: Gold
Personality: Possessive to no end, Caid was Myra's and no one else's and she made it known even to the bossy bronze that Caid had managed to Impress. She was first in line and that was that (even though Shade preceded her), yet she did accept the fact that she had to share her Pet with the other firelizards. But when she grew ill or frightened, she would cuddle against her Pet until his own beating heart lulled her to sleep. Her last days were spent unusually quiet and content curled upon Caid's lap until she finally Betweened with apology.
Physical description: Shining bright gold, Myra was hard to miss as she zipped about on some mission or another for her own profit. She was a bit pudgy for a firelizard, but she glowed intensely during her flights and was hard to look at, her pudginess hardly slowing her down.
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Crafter information
Craft name: Trading
Rank in craft: Journeyman
Specialty (if one): Bargaining/Flitter Eggs
Turns in craft: 6 turns
Where studied: All Over the North
