Name: Thaira
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Orientation*: Heterosexual
Rank: Sr. Weyrwoman
Dragon(or Preference, if applicable): Gold Falconth
Fire-lizards: N/a
Pets: Canine-Indy
Description:QUICKDESC
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 145lbs
Hair: Dark blonde/Light Brown, cut short.
Eyes: Dark blue, shrewd.
Skin: Naturally on the light side, tanned and freckled from riding in the sun.
Thaira is a shrewd looking woman in her forties. She has wrinkles developing in her forehead, by her eyes, and by her mouth. Her body is muscular, and if it weren't for those wrinkles and impurities in her skin, she would look much younger. Her hair does not gray easily, but she very carefully removes the hairs when they appear. She is very image-conscious when not with Falconth.
Personality: Thaira has always been an extremely intelligent person. But intelligence has its downfalls. In her case, her intelligence adds to her ego, which has grown to disproportionate amounts. Parts of her desperately desire to take over all the Weyrs of the Northern continent, while the logical part of her motions against that.
She is good at putting up a friendly face. She's an actress of sorts, able to lull people to do her bidding. This is a useful skill for a political woman such as she. She does not tend to use this ability for 'incorrect' or 'bad' means, but she does use it. She has fixed many an issue among the Holds her Weyr presides over with her smile and a glass of dry sherry.
History: Thaira was born to greenrider and Weyrwoman of her time, Mishira and the Weyrleader, brownrider A'ten. Both perished within a year of her birth while assisting with a Threadfall over White Sands Weyr territory.
Thaira has always known of this heritage, and has always been proud of it. Though her parents were chromatic riders, they were much beloved leaders. They risked everything for the good of Pern, and eventually lost everything. Thaira in her younger days, wished to be like this as well, to die like they did. Until she realized that this was no good for the good of Pern.
Death helped no-one.
From the age of eight until she was Searched for White Sands Weyr at seventeen, she studied. She could have been a Harper scholar, but she refused. She always "knew" that she would Impress a gold dragon, and that she would take up her parents' mantle. It was a difficult process, all her studying, but it paid off. She was a shrewd politician by the age of twelve, and had one of the largest vocabularies in the Weyr. She didn't just hone her mind, either. She studied flight by constantly asking dragonriders to take her for visits elsewhere. Little Thaira, the excellent little politician, tended to get what she wanted, too.
She learned the basics of riding before a dragon even looked at her for Search. She positively mastered the flamethrower at the age of fourteen, and at that age, had already developed her muscles enough to take on an entire threadfall. She wouldn't test it out adragonback until she Impressed, of course, but she ended each Threadfall on the grounds just barely out of breath. Whether she was wielding flames or agenothree, she was known to be a strong girl.
She participated in candidate chores and lessons for many turns before she was chosen to be one of the few Crystal Waters Weyr natives to go to White Sands for a Hatching. She Impressed Falconth at 17, and felt her dreams were coming true... Until the then Weyrwoman Kaine broke the news to her.
She was to succeed her. She was to be Weyrwoman for White Sands.
Thaira refused to take that, and after six long turns full of debates, she eventually won with the support of Telgar Weyrleaders, Great Cliffs Weyrleaders, and even (though reluctantly) Crystal Waters Weyrleaders. She returned to Crystal Waters, and took over proper Weyrwomanship. Akayla reluctantly stepped aside, and while she is known as a 'retired' Weyrwoman, she has always acted more like a second to Thaira. Akayla's experience had lasted from Mishira's death until Thaira's return, some twenty turns from now.
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Age: 26
Birth Place: White Sands Weyr
Sire and Dam**: Bronze Makkeneth x Gold Illiardrith
Dragon Description: Not a large dragon by today's standards, she had been a fair sized dragon for her birth time. All dragons born in the "present" tend to be smaller than those from the past, as well as descendants thereof. She is among the largest of her generation, larger than her dam, Illiardrith.
She is a deep orangey gold, with no greenish impurities in her hide. While she is dark for a gold, she is not hard to discern from bronzes. She does lack a certain sheen in her hide, but many speculate that that is because of the many different tones in her hide. She is not a solid gold, she has darker and lighter colours in her hide, but all within that same orange-gold spectrum.
She has a 'birthmark' on the left side of her neck that continues to her shoulder. This portion of her hide is a much lighter yellowgold tone.
Dragon Personality:To come...
Other Information**:May or may not come.
