Post by kitllwynog on Jun 25, 2012 14:19:42 GMT -5
This is what he's going to look like in ten or so a turns lol
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Persona information (Updated: 6/25/12)
Name: N'reus (Nereus)
Pronunciation: Ne-RAY-us (NAIR-ee-us)
Age: 23
Gender: male
Sexual Orientation: heterosexual
Rank:bronzerider/jr. Journeyman Seacrafter
Birthplace: (Birthdate. 1141.12.21)
Family: Mother: Nereida 45, apprentice weaver, StormSurge cothold, deceased
Father: Marinus: master Seacrafter 52, deceased
Siblings etc: Darinus, 28, sr. Journeyman Seacrafter, Reinus, 25, jr. Journeyman harper, Marida, 19, rider of green Arwenth, Rineida, 15 Candidate, Arineid, 12 apprentice Healer, Reimar, 12, apprentice Healer
Significant others: none currently
Personality: N'reus is a private person who keeps his innermost thoughts firmly to himself, but he's not afraid to stand up for his convictions when needed. Not that he's just hardheaded, he constantly revises his opinions based on new information, and he loves to learn. In fact, he an intelligent man with an appreciation for art, music, and nature, but he believes that he should keep this softer side of himself hidden. So must people know him just as a bold and friendly man, often laughing or smiling. He makes friends fairly easily, and is comfortable in social situations, but he is easily bored, and his restless spirit is often seeking out a new adventure to be had.
This restlessness extends to his love life as well. Though he is an attractive man, growing up in the culture of sailors has made him believe that monogamy is waste of time, and besides all that he's still young, and commitment is not something he's looking for. Maybe he hasn't met the right person yet, certainly his reputation hasn't stopped people from trying.
In other areas of his life, he's known as a honorable man, and he values both duty and honesty. He'll go out of his way, even endangering his own life, to defend what is 'right'. In fact, to the casual bystander, he might appear not to value his own life very much, since he's constanly putting it in harm's way, but its not that he wants to die. He just has never seen his death as a real possibility. He doesn't like to show his emotions, because he considers it unmasculine, nor does he like to ask for help. N'reus is an awful patient to have in the infirmary. But he's not an unkind person, he'll give help to those who ask, and has a sort of gruff tenderness with his lovers. He's a little superstitious, as many sailors are, and it gives him a bit of charming eccentricity. His two great loves are music and the sea. He loves to watch the water or to see storms roll in over the horizon.
Physical description:N'reus is just over six feet in height, broad-shouldered, and muscled as a dragonrider must be, yet still lean and well-proportioned. His skin is tanned golden, and a bit weathered from constant exposure to sun and the elements. Dark brown hair reaches to his shoulders, and is naturally wavy and unruly, so he often pulls it back into a runnertail while flying. His eyes are hazel, ranging from gray-gold to green-blue, depending on the day.
N'reus has a narrow nose and a strong chin to offset his wide grin, and his perpetual scraggly goatee gives him a somewhat rakish appearance. He's the kind of guy who hates buying new clothes, so he wears then ones he has until they're patched and frayed beyond all recognition, but he does all the mending himself. When is forced to buy new things, he has good taste, and he prefers dark blues, greens, and black for his outfits, in the loose vagabond style preferred by sailors. He's not much for ornamentation, but he does have a shark's tooth on a leather thong that he's had since childhood, and he keeps it as a good luck charm. Otherwise, he's got several scars from his rough and tumble life, including one above his right eye from his near fatal shipwreck, and a puckered scar on his left side from am knife wound.
History:
Nereus was a middle child out of a herd of children produced by Nereida, a failed weaver, and Marinus, a fisherman/smuggler of a small hold near Ista. Like many Crafters and Holders, they were fairly poor, especially since their father was not often around. Food was sometimes hard to come by, and many of the children turned to stealing to survive. Nereus was never close to his siblings, they were competition, but he was a resourceful lad, and by the time he was six Turns of age, he was gathering food from the sea to help himself and his family survive. His childhood was hard, yet he never remembered being particularly unhappy. It was the only way he knew.
At the age of ten Nereus was deemed large enough to go to sea as an apprentice and so at first he served as a sort of cabin boy on his father's ship, until he was strong enough to act as a regular sailor. He enjoyed the adventure, and the death and danger ceased to bother him after a while, By the time he was fifteen his father began to rely on him more, and they began to grow closer, and one his eighteenth name day, he became a jr. Journeyman Seacrafter, and his father's first mate. Turns passed rather uneventfully, they plied their trade in legal and illegal goods except during fishing season, when they occupied themselves with feeding their small Hold. Nereus found a clutch of firelizard eggs on the beach and managed to Impess a brown that he named Roheryn. But then, a few months into his 21st Turn, their ship was caught in a storm and dashed against the rocks.
He was found washed ashore among the wreckage by some locals, one of only a few survivors, with Roheryn anxiously fluttering above his head. His father's body was never found. At Ista Hold he was nursed back to health, and then he returned home, grieving and not sure what to do next. His mother had died several Turns previously, giving birth to her last children, boy twins who were now only ten turns of age, who, along with their thirteen turn old sister, were living with an aunt. The other children, he learned, had gone to crafts, except his sister Marida. She was at the weyr, hoping to Impress a dragon any day. Nereus, having no other ideas, took his young siblings and off to Igen Weyr they went, to attend the hatching and inform Marida of their father's probable demise.
They arrived just in time, the day of the Hatching, and saw as Marida Impressed a green dragonet. But that was not the end of the tale. A bronze hatchling seemed to be having trouble finding his lifemate, and began to look among those in the Stands. You could've knocked Nereus over with a feather when he heard Realtath speak into his mind. From then on, he was N'reus, a dragonrider, one of the oldest Impressions seeing as he was six months into his 21st Turn. He went into weyrling training with Marida, and the younger children went into the weyr crèche, though Rineida decided to become a Candidate after seeing the wonderful Hatching. Now almost out of weyrling training and having moved to Izuko, N'reus is looking forward to being promoted into a wing.
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Dragon information
Name: Realtath
Pronunciation: RAY-all-TATH
Age: 16 months
Colour: bronze
Weyrling group: Clutch 9
Wing:
Birthhome: Igen Weyr
Dam/Sire: Authanth/Duncanth
Personality:Realtath has the same bravery and restlessness as his rider, and half of the pair's adventures are his idea. Unlike N'reus, Realtath enjoys being pampered and fawned over. He knows he's good looking, and loves to be the center of attention. The bronze is a shameless flirt, as well as a matchmaker, and he helps N'reus in his amorous conquests by speaking to the dragons of those that catch his rider's eye. He doesn't really understand about his rider not liking men though...
Realtath is a dragon of middling intelligence, and he certainly doesn't share the love of learning or music, or any quiet pursuit that his rider enjoys, and gets very quickly bored. He doesn't even let N'reus sleep late. But he only enjoys activities that are his own idea, and N'reus often has to persuade or bully him into doing their more onerous duties. Luckily, his poor draconic memory means that his rider can use the same trick over and over again. Otherwise, Realtath is an easy-going an affectionate dragon, and an eager listener to the problems N'reus would tell no one else, even if he doesn't understand them.
Physical description: A smallish bronze, as might be expected from one sired of a brown, Realtath is nonetheless of very good conformation, being, in most people's opinion, the perfect mix of lean flexibility to muscled bulk. He has a very bright hide, as near to golden as a bronze may get, with hardly any markings, except for a tree like mark on his chest and some rayed stars on the inside of his wings.
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Pet information
Name:Roheryn
Pronunciation:ro-HAIR-in
Age: 4
Type: firelizard
Colour: brown
Personality: Roheryn is most of all, a very loyal firelizard, attached to N'reus like a barnacle, and uncommonly smart for a brown. He's obedient and is good a taking messages, but he's not very playful and seems to be rather sleepy when he isn't working.
Physical description: A medium sized brown, he has a chestnut color reminiscent of a runner and some of the same sleek musculature., though his hide is lightly dappled on his flanks in a paler tan. He's a bit more bulky than lean, but not overly so, and average in strength and flexibility for his color.
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Crafter information
Craft name: Seacrafter
Rank in craft: jr. Journeyman
Turns in craft: 13
Where studied: with his father, at sea
