Post by Requiem on Mar 19, 2009 22:05:16 GMT -5
Name: S'rei (formerly Shorei, S'las and Silas)
Age: 48
Birth Month: July of 2979
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Hetero
Location: Selenitas Weyr
Rank: Weyrleader
Father: Bronzerider D'vo (formerly Diovo, 69, presumably deceased)
Mother: Brownrider Vani (71, deceased)
Siblings: 2 brothers, 1 sister, all deceased
Weyrmate: Greenrider Elysia (37), 3 dead former weyrmates
Children: Bluehandler Dmitri (25), Shei (12), Elias (4), 2 dead sons, 2 dead daughters, 1 miscarried child of undetermined gender - Miguel (13, nephew, adopted as son)
Grandchildren: Dileina (5), Emitre (5)
Daughter-in-law: Greenrider Erilena (27)
UPDATED: May 27 2012
Physical Appearance: Some men simply age better than others. Though 6'6", greying and nearly 50, S'rei could easily pass for a younger man. His age is more noticeable in his face and the color of his hair now, but between his easy energy, light humor and the nearly universal athleticism of dragonriders no one would call him old excpet to tease. He would seem average if athletically trim in build without the smaller, shorter people all around him to put his sheer size in perspective. Gentle amusement is a common backdrop to his unique grey eyes when he's not actively in command. Indeed, there's an unhurried peacefulness to the natural grace of his movements and the timbre of his speech - providing the giant isn't awoken from his slumber in one of his rare but devastating rages.
Personality: S'rei is a leader. He has not always been such, but most at the two Weyrs have known him as nothing else. Charismatic, silver-tongued, friendly and competent, he seems to care about everyone and has little trouble winning people over. (Which might explain the large number of children.) The man isn't brilliant, and he doesn't always possess the most common sense, but he knows wars and threadfall - more importantly, leading in wars and threadfall - better than anyone. And why not? He's been at least a wingsecond for over thirty turns. No amount of brilliance can make up for that sort of experience. And no one has to know that he doesn't really care about anyone but his family and close friends...as long as he seems and acts like he does.
This is one bronzerider that people aren't afraid to tease or banter with. Oh, you'll know it when he's switched to business mode, but otherwise it's perfectly okay to tease and clown around with him. In fact, it's not that unusual for him to instigate. He also doesn't tend toward the usual posturing and power plays. What need is there for that? If it didn't bug the shit out of him to watch incompetents messing things up for everyone, he'd gladly retire to some high mountainside and spend his days growing a really long beard while sketching and disseminating dubious advice. In fact, that's his plan after the Trials: find a nice high mountain and retire there.
History:
Childhood - 2979-2991
Born the youngest of four children in 2979, Silas was the small, rambunctious son of bronzerider D'vo and brownrider Vani. He and his older sister, Laurie, frequently got into mischief, but they came from a long line of Selenitas dragonriders and they were humored - for the most part. Silas's desire to Impress was well-known and it only grew when his eldest brother Impressed a blue in 2987. But Silas wouldn't be old enough to Stand for another four turns.
Selenitas Bronzerider - 2992-2996
Salenth broke shell on Turn's End, stumbling across the sands and falling at the feet of the youngest of the male candidates, ushering in Turn 2992. As weyrlings, S'las and Laurie - who had Impressed green Reysalth at the same Hatching - continued to harass their instructors. Soon enough, however, S'las found his family growing up around him. Laurie had moved in with her weyrmate, M'el, Ivan had relocated up north to receive formal harper training, and D'van's weyrmate was pregnant with his second child. When Benden Weyr expressed an interest in taking in young southern bronzeriders to get a fresh approach to matters up north, Weyrwoman Sera was all too willing to break up the mischievous siblings, and D'vo felt Selenitas could benefit from having riders who had experienced the world beyond the reach of the Selenitas Dynasty. Salenth and S'las made the transfer in 2996, joining a young Benden wing as wingseconds with C'leon and Morsrath. That same turn, the tensions between Fort and Benden escalated into open war.
Rebirth as Fortians - 2996-3001
Turn's End came around again, Fort Hold open to dragonriders from any weyr in perhaps one last desperate attempt to ignore the war. S'las' entire family turned out to see Ivan. The stabbing of the young bronzer resulted in a panic that appeared to end with the deaths of all three brothers. Might as well have been. From this came S'rei and Salenth, a young bronze with an amnesiac for a rider that Fort Weyr was all too quick to assimilate once his wounds had healed. Working through a vaccuum of history and personal identity as well as a severely weakened bond with his dragon, S'rei eventually went on to second on one of the regular fighting wings in 2999 and father two children he wouldn't learn about until much later.
Benden Junior Weyrleader - 3001-3009
A revelation: S'rei and Salenth had flown with Benden, not Fort. A desire to recover an empty past along with fear of discovery and a trip to the interrogators that Fort was known for spurred the defection. They were granted no great welcome. First incarceration, then a deal that gave Benden the information needed to turn the tide of war, followed by a wingsecond position on Weyrleader C'leon's wing that the bronzepair survived until they were given the 'honor' of leading the first wing of weyrlings and failures against Thread in 3006...But they always performed well despite it all, holding the junior weyrleader position for a time and earning the respect of many chromatics if not the metallics. It was the death of his weyrmate of four turns and the first bits of a returning memory that caused S'rei and Salenth to turn their sights to Selenitas Weyr.
Selenitas Weyrleader - 3009-3010
Though Sage's death took place in 3007, it wasn't until 3009 that C'leon approved the transfer request. Who really knows his purpose? It seemed that S'rei's return to Selenitas and his reunion with his sister, Lauranna, was the harbinger of other less joyful changes. Millieth and Kaegan defected to Selenitas Weyr, bringing with them the attention of C'leon. The Selenitas Weyrwoman was briefly taken captive and an attempt made to poison S'rei himself, before Salenth captured Gold Aslath from beneath Morsrath's snout and S'rei became both Weyrleader and lover to Shmee. Benden continued to try to interfere, resulting in a miscarriage of S'rei and Shmee's first child and the woman's eventual kidnapping. The man had little choice but to bring his weyrmate and unborn child back.
Skip in Time - [2995-2999]
It was doomed from the start. Then Weyrleader S'rei's search party emerged from Between in the middle of a battle, and the quick, desperate hop Between for the bronzepair that resulted got them lost...in time. The two spent four turns at Fort Weyr working to keep their heads low and not cross paths with their much younger selves while trying to find a way to get back to their own time. An archivist was much help to them, working out the star charts for the future turn painstakingly night after night. What he did during those turns he doesn't speak of, but no regular wingrider would know him by his description. Finally, he returned to his own time. Or, rather, a few months after he'd disappeared. By then his daughter Shei had already been born.
Tensions at Selenitas - 3010-3015
The chaos of life at Selenitas mirrored the chaos of S'rei's personal life. Shmee's death hit the man hard when she died eating poisoned tithes, then his sister Lauranna died in the Benden Siege. The bronzerider was left raising his daughter and nephew Miguel alone, supporting Ka'rys and several other weyrleaders who did little of note apart from dying in various interesting ways while dealing with a greenrider who he'd fathered twins off of in a Flight. Apparently the best way to deal with Aliscia was to take her as his weyrmate - at least, the fighting stopped after that - and then S'rei found himself Weyrleader yet again. He brokered the ultimately empty alliance between Selenitas Weyr and Benden Weyr and made the mistake of taking the prisoners sent to them: Benden defectors who did not approve of the Fort bronzerider who had taken over Benden during the siege of 3012.
Hidden Weyr - 3015-3017
This mistake cost S'rei dearly. The Weyr was lost to a takeover by other defectors like the four prisoners they'd received. Metallics were killed, the bronzerider lost his twins and weyrmate, and only the happenstance that he'd been at Lighttower at the time preserved his own life. He and the brownrider Sel'n wandered on their own for some time before they eventually found the other exiles who'd escaped to the hidden weyr of Burimyu. He found there a Weyr already established and was content to let them guide themselves without him. Of course, then Ka'rys had to go and get himself killed. S'rei replaced him on the Burimyu Council just in time for their one and only goldrider, Meira, to be brutally slaughtered by some unknown predator. Just his luck. The problem of no gold and no renewable population began to consume the Council, which was perhaps why he didn't discourage his newly-acquired friend, Elysia, from making an attempt to solve the problem.
New Selenitas and War - 3017-3020
The earthquake that shook Selenitas Weyr presented S'rei (and the Council) with the perfect opportunity to acquire a gold and bring most of the southern dragonriders back into the fold when they offered Burimyu as the New Selenitas. Even the surviving wastelanders were welcome. This caused some friction. Surprisingly, not that much, though. S'rei's life got more complicated with the addition of an adult son and a weyrmate of his own, who he regarded with particular fondness and possibly even love. Elysia of Green Onyth turned out to mean more to him that he'd ever expected, and her pregnancy - along with his new grandchildren - gave him all the more reason to work to end the dangerous situation dragonriders had been in for decades. Few know that S'rei masterminded with Benden the battle that defeated Fort and marked the end of the war - barring the last few death throes of renegade riders unwilling to take the offer of amnesty and friendship. S'rei's son was born into a world much different from that his parents' had grown up in, and the bronzerider was determined to keep it that way for Elias; he'd already lost too many children.
Selenitas Weyrleader - 3020-present
Many think that the Summit was a black-and-white power struggle between the dragonriders and holders, fighting for power and freedom. In reality S'rei was one of the most stoic supporters of a lot of the restrictions imposed by the Holds, and helped grease the way to acceptance on the part of the other ranking riders. He understood the fears of the Holders - and, more, the validity of them - after so many turns at the mercies of the whims of warring dragonriders. Perhaps it was this role that ended with the choice of installing him as Selenitas Weyrleader until the first Trials, or perhaps it was something else. He works hard to encourage all the riders to intermingle and form bonds, arranges for many competitions and Gathers to help blow off steam, and as always keeps a thumb on the pulse of the Weyr, guiding it with near invisible strings and seemingly without much of a care in the world. The Weyr sees him often, mingling with riders of all ranks and enjoying time spent with his young son and weyrmate, as well as other members of his expansive family no longer at the Weyr.
Name: Salenth
Color: Bronze
Age: 35 turns
Physical Appearance: It would seem that Salenth was built to be S'rei's partner. He is nearly as large as Morsrath, though he doesn't seem that way, as Salenth doesn't have the bulky, overpowering build that most of his bronze brothers can boast. His strength is average at best for a bronze, as is his speed, but his endurance can be truly staggering and he has an intuitive feel for flying that goes beyond mere dragon instinct.
Salenth boasts a hide of burnished copper that easily catches the sunlight, darker markings falling in random swirls and speckles along his back and flanks, more concentrated near the spine. His wings, too, are a darker brown, as are the scales of his underbelly, which are dotted here and there with the brighter copper hue. He carries himself like the king of the skies that he is, a bronze in his prime who is confident in his ability to do as he was born to do.
Personality: If ever there was a voice of reason among the unlikely quartet that formed the Weyr leadership, it was Salenth. He was always ambitious and rather arrogant, but the turns spent partially cut off from his bonded have mellowed Salenth considerably. There is no denying that he wants to be the leading bronze, but he also has the dependable nature to do justice to that role. His observant, quiet ways are actually the grounding force behind S'rei's easy-going nature, as the man's passion would otherwise carry him away.
Salenth, too, provides direction to his somewhat easily distracted life partner. While S'rei certainly commands the intelligence of the partnership, Salenth is the one gifted with an uncanny insight and the steadiness to keep his bonded on track. His command of the big picture is staggering. He also tends to have something of a diplomatic streak that is echoed in S'rei, but his is quieter. He is the foundation of the bronzepair's success. Dutiful. Dependable. Unflappable.
Aside from his natural arrogance, his main flaw is that Salenth is over-protective of his rider after the trauma of their youth. He gets anxious whenever S'rei's thoughts are closed off from him, and can be inspired toward rash actions to restore full communication.
Pets
Name: Mhir
Age: 5
Born: May 3017
Color: Blue ~ Base coloration: [C1F0F6] , Eye spot, frill and wing sails: [008080]
Species: Mandyr
Looks to: S’rei
Physical Appearance:
This little blue is rather small for his coloration. In fact he is more the size of a green. Which is almost ironic considering he also has the same dainty build as one. Far from being masculine looking this male could almost be described as pretty in stature. He has large fully functional wings that he will use expertly almost from birth. In fact he could put some green firelizards to shame with the twists and tricks he will be able perform. A long thin and whippy tail rounds out his look along with large alluring eyes that always seem to gave a curious quality to them. Unlike his golden sister this blue sports not a half frill but a perfect full one. Certainly a rarity amongst Harmony’s offspring.
His hide is a pale almost white shade of pastel blue. The coloration boosts a certain blue shine and tint in certain lighting leaving no doubt as to his true coloration. If that blue sheen was not enough to stop people from mistaking him as a white his markings should do the trick. One large teal spot covers his left eye and trails in almost miniscule speckles down his back, giving the impression that someone might have sprinkled glitter on him. His wing sails and frill also sport the same teal coloration and display intricate patterns of light and dark when the sun hits them fully.
Personality:
This little blue is possessed with unending curiosity. He’s most concerned with how something works, why it works, and what it’s used for. Or why a human or a dragon performs this or the other action. Or why the sky is blue and not red. For all his curiosity however he’s a bit slow to understand new things and the answer might have to be repeated and re-explained several times over before he understands it completely. He’s almost childlike in the way he reacts to new things and it makes his curiosity endearing rather then just simply annoying. He seems to enjoy the simple things in life the most. Like a choice piece of meat, or a warm spring day, the peace of a babbling stream, or the silent company of a friend. In speech he is not anywhere near gifted enough to form full or grammatically correct sentences. Not that it matters. He gets his point across well enough. He’s intelligent enough for a blue and no dimglow even if he is a tad slow.
He’s extremely loyal, protective, and fond of his bonded even if he’s not an overly affectionate sort. He’ll give light nuzzles on the rare occasion but he’s not really much of a cuddler. His loyalties, protectiveness, and fondness also extend to the few friends he might manage to acquire. Once you have him as a friend you most likely have a friend for life. He’s not easily driven away unless you hurt him or hurt one of the others he’s fond of, most noticeably his bonded. Even then he won’t hate you, just regard you with a quiet sadness and his trust once broken is not something that can or will be easily repaired if ever. You have to mess up pretty big to lose him and once you do good luck getting his trust back. The only acceptation to this rule is his who he will love till his dying day obviously.
His love and acceptance seems to extend to all species big and small and he doesn’t make judgments. He will befriend other mandyrs, firelizards, whers, humans, and even dragons. It seems that the blue has not a prejudiced bone in his body. He seems to be capable of loving any and all. Which is perhaps ironic in a sense because this blue will never chase. He seems to be curious on just why others run but he will never run nor chase himself. He simply does not understand such a concept and seems to have been born with no sexual drive of his own whatsoever. Just because he won’t chase doesn’t mean he doesn’t have enough love for all however.
Age: 48
Birth Month: July of 2979
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Hetero
Location: Selenitas Weyr
Rank: Weyrleader
Father: Bronzerider D'vo (formerly Diovo, 69, presumably deceased)
Mother: Brownrider Vani (71, deceased)
Siblings: 2 brothers, 1 sister, all deceased
Weyrmate: Greenrider Elysia (37), 3 dead former weyrmates
Children: Bluehandler Dmitri (25), Shei (12), Elias (4), 2 dead sons, 2 dead daughters, 1 miscarried child of undetermined gender - Miguel (13, nephew, adopted as son)
Grandchildren: Dileina (5), Emitre (5)
Daughter-in-law: Greenrider Erilena (27)
UPDATED: May 27 2012
Physical Appearance: Some men simply age better than others. Though 6'6", greying and nearly 50, S'rei could easily pass for a younger man. His age is more noticeable in his face and the color of his hair now, but between his easy energy, light humor and the nearly universal athleticism of dragonriders no one would call him old excpet to tease. He would seem average if athletically trim in build without the smaller, shorter people all around him to put his sheer size in perspective. Gentle amusement is a common backdrop to his unique grey eyes when he's not actively in command. Indeed, there's an unhurried peacefulness to the natural grace of his movements and the timbre of his speech - providing the giant isn't awoken from his slumber in one of his rare but devastating rages.
Personality: S'rei is a leader. He has not always been such, but most at the two Weyrs have known him as nothing else. Charismatic, silver-tongued, friendly and competent, he seems to care about everyone and has little trouble winning people over. (Which might explain the large number of children.) The man isn't brilliant, and he doesn't always possess the most common sense, but he knows wars and threadfall - more importantly, leading in wars and threadfall - better than anyone. And why not? He's been at least a wingsecond for over thirty turns. No amount of brilliance can make up for that sort of experience. And no one has to know that he doesn't really care about anyone but his family and close friends...as long as he seems and acts like he does.
This is one bronzerider that people aren't afraid to tease or banter with. Oh, you'll know it when he's switched to business mode, but otherwise it's perfectly okay to tease and clown around with him. In fact, it's not that unusual for him to instigate. He also doesn't tend toward the usual posturing and power plays. What need is there for that? If it didn't bug the shit out of him to watch incompetents messing things up for everyone, he'd gladly retire to some high mountainside and spend his days growing a really long beard while sketching and disseminating dubious advice. In fact, that's his plan after the Trials: find a nice high mountain and retire there.
History:
Childhood - 2979-2991
Born the youngest of four children in 2979, Silas was the small, rambunctious son of bronzerider D'vo and brownrider Vani. He and his older sister, Laurie, frequently got into mischief, but they came from a long line of Selenitas dragonriders and they were humored - for the most part. Silas's desire to Impress was well-known and it only grew when his eldest brother Impressed a blue in 2987. But Silas wouldn't be old enough to Stand for another four turns.
Selenitas Bronzerider - 2992-2996
Salenth broke shell on Turn's End, stumbling across the sands and falling at the feet of the youngest of the male candidates, ushering in Turn 2992. As weyrlings, S'las and Laurie - who had Impressed green Reysalth at the same Hatching - continued to harass their instructors. Soon enough, however, S'las found his family growing up around him. Laurie had moved in with her weyrmate, M'el, Ivan had relocated up north to receive formal harper training, and D'van's weyrmate was pregnant with his second child. When Benden Weyr expressed an interest in taking in young southern bronzeriders to get a fresh approach to matters up north, Weyrwoman Sera was all too willing to break up the mischievous siblings, and D'vo felt Selenitas could benefit from having riders who had experienced the world beyond the reach of the Selenitas Dynasty. Salenth and S'las made the transfer in 2996, joining a young Benden wing as wingseconds with C'leon and Morsrath. That same turn, the tensions between Fort and Benden escalated into open war.
Rebirth as Fortians - 2996-3001
Turn's End came around again, Fort Hold open to dragonriders from any weyr in perhaps one last desperate attempt to ignore the war. S'las' entire family turned out to see Ivan. The stabbing of the young bronzer resulted in a panic that appeared to end with the deaths of all three brothers. Might as well have been. From this came S'rei and Salenth, a young bronze with an amnesiac for a rider that Fort Weyr was all too quick to assimilate once his wounds had healed. Working through a vaccuum of history and personal identity as well as a severely weakened bond with his dragon, S'rei eventually went on to second on one of the regular fighting wings in 2999 and father two children he wouldn't learn about until much later.
Benden Junior Weyrleader - 3001-3009
A revelation: S'rei and Salenth had flown with Benden, not Fort. A desire to recover an empty past along with fear of discovery and a trip to the interrogators that Fort was known for spurred the defection. They were granted no great welcome. First incarceration, then a deal that gave Benden the information needed to turn the tide of war, followed by a wingsecond position on Weyrleader C'leon's wing that the bronzepair survived until they were given the 'honor' of leading the first wing of weyrlings and failures against Thread in 3006...But they always performed well despite it all, holding the junior weyrleader position for a time and earning the respect of many chromatics if not the metallics. It was the death of his weyrmate of four turns and the first bits of a returning memory that caused S'rei and Salenth to turn their sights to Selenitas Weyr.
Selenitas Weyrleader - 3009-3010
Though Sage's death took place in 3007, it wasn't until 3009 that C'leon approved the transfer request. Who really knows his purpose? It seemed that S'rei's return to Selenitas and his reunion with his sister, Lauranna, was the harbinger of other less joyful changes. Millieth and Kaegan defected to Selenitas Weyr, bringing with them the attention of C'leon. The Selenitas Weyrwoman was briefly taken captive and an attempt made to poison S'rei himself, before Salenth captured Gold Aslath from beneath Morsrath's snout and S'rei became both Weyrleader and lover to Shmee. Benden continued to try to interfere, resulting in a miscarriage of S'rei and Shmee's first child and the woman's eventual kidnapping. The man had little choice but to bring his weyrmate and unborn child back.
Skip in Time - [2995-2999]
It was doomed from the start. Then Weyrleader S'rei's search party emerged from Between in the middle of a battle, and the quick, desperate hop Between for the bronzepair that resulted got them lost...in time. The two spent four turns at Fort Weyr working to keep their heads low and not cross paths with their much younger selves while trying to find a way to get back to their own time. An archivist was much help to them, working out the star charts for the future turn painstakingly night after night. What he did during those turns he doesn't speak of, but no regular wingrider would know him by his description. Finally, he returned to his own time. Or, rather, a few months after he'd disappeared. By then his daughter Shei had already been born.
Tensions at Selenitas - 3010-3015
The chaos of life at Selenitas mirrored the chaos of S'rei's personal life. Shmee's death hit the man hard when she died eating poisoned tithes, then his sister Lauranna died in the Benden Siege. The bronzerider was left raising his daughter and nephew Miguel alone, supporting Ka'rys and several other weyrleaders who did little of note apart from dying in various interesting ways while dealing with a greenrider who he'd fathered twins off of in a Flight. Apparently the best way to deal with Aliscia was to take her as his weyrmate - at least, the fighting stopped after that - and then S'rei found himself Weyrleader yet again. He brokered the ultimately empty alliance between Selenitas Weyr and Benden Weyr and made the mistake of taking the prisoners sent to them: Benden defectors who did not approve of the Fort bronzerider who had taken over Benden during the siege of 3012.
Hidden Weyr - 3015-3017
This mistake cost S'rei dearly. The Weyr was lost to a takeover by other defectors like the four prisoners they'd received. Metallics were killed, the bronzerider lost his twins and weyrmate, and only the happenstance that he'd been at Lighttower at the time preserved his own life. He and the brownrider Sel'n wandered on their own for some time before they eventually found the other exiles who'd escaped to the hidden weyr of Burimyu. He found there a Weyr already established and was content to let them guide themselves without him. Of course, then Ka'rys had to go and get himself killed. S'rei replaced him on the Burimyu Council just in time for their one and only goldrider, Meira, to be brutally slaughtered by some unknown predator. Just his luck. The problem of no gold and no renewable population began to consume the Council, which was perhaps why he didn't discourage his newly-acquired friend, Elysia, from making an attempt to solve the problem.
New Selenitas and War - 3017-3020
The earthquake that shook Selenitas Weyr presented S'rei (and the Council) with the perfect opportunity to acquire a gold and bring most of the southern dragonriders back into the fold when they offered Burimyu as the New Selenitas. Even the surviving wastelanders were welcome. This caused some friction. Surprisingly, not that much, though. S'rei's life got more complicated with the addition of an adult son and a weyrmate of his own, who he regarded with particular fondness and possibly even love. Elysia of Green Onyth turned out to mean more to him that he'd ever expected, and her pregnancy - along with his new grandchildren - gave him all the more reason to work to end the dangerous situation dragonriders had been in for decades. Few know that S'rei masterminded with Benden the battle that defeated Fort and marked the end of the war - barring the last few death throes of renegade riders unwilling to take the offer of amnesty and friendship. S'rei's son was born into a world much different from that his parents' had grown up in, and the bronzerider was determined to keep it that way for Elias; he'd already lost too many children.
Selenitas Weyrleader - 3020-present
Many think that the Summit was a black-and-white power struggle between the dragonriders and holders, fighting for power and freedom. In reality S'rei was one of the most stoic supporters of a lot of the restrictions imposed by the Holds, and helped grease the way to acceptance on the part of the other ranking riders. He understood the fears of the Holders - and, more, the validity of them - after so many turns at the mercies of the whims of warring dragonriders. Perhaps it was this role that ended with the choice of installing him as Selenitas Weyrleader until the first Trials, or perhaps it was something else. He works hard to encourage all the riders to intermingle and form bonds, arranges for many competitions and Gathers to help blow off steam, and as always keeps a thumb on the pulse of the Weyr, guiding it with near invisible strings and seemingly without much of a care in the world. The Weyr sees him often, mingling with riders of all ranks and enjoying time spent with his young son and weyrmate, as well as other members of his expansive family no longer at the Weyr.
Name: Salenth
Color: Bronze
Age: 35 turns
Physical Appearance: It would seem that Salenth was built to be S'rei's partner. He is nearly as large as Morsrath, though he doesn't seem that way, as Salenth doesn't have the bulky, overpowering build that most of his bronze brothers can boast. His strength is average at best for a bronze, as is his speed, but his endurance can be truly staggering and he has an intuitive feel for flying that goes beyond mere dragon instinct.
Salenth boasts a hide of burnished copper that easily catches the sunlight, darker markings falling in random swirls and speckles along his back and flanks, more concentrated near the spine. His wings, too, are a darker brown, as are the scales of his underbelly, which are dotted here and there with the brighter copper hue. He carries himself like the king of the skies that he is, a bronze in his prime who is confident in his ability to do as he was born to do.
Personality: If ever there was a voice of reason among the unlikely quartet that formed the Weyr leadership, it was Salenth. He was always ambitious and rather arrogant, but the turns spent partially cut off from his bonded have mellowed Salenth considerably. There is no denying that he wants to be the leading bronze, but he also has the dependable nature to do justice to that role. His observant, quiet ways are actually the grounding force behind S'rei's easy-going nature, as the man's passion would otherwise carry him away.
Salenth, too, provides direction to his somewhat easily distracted life partner. While S'rei certainly commands the intelligence of the partnership, Salenth is the one gifted with an uncanny insight and the steadiness to keep his bonded on track. His command of the big picture is staggering. He also tends to have something of a diplomatic streak that is echoed in S'rei, but his is quieter. He is the foundation of the bronzepair's success. Dutiful. Dependable. Unflappable.
Aside from his natural arrogance, his main flaw is that Salenth is over-protective of his rider after the trauma of their youth. He gets anxious whenever S'rei's thoughts are closed off from him, and can be inspired toward rash actions to restore full communication.
Pets
Name: Mhir
Age: 5
Born: May 3017
Color: Blue ~ Base coloration: [C1F0F6] , Eye spot, frill and wing sails: [008080]
Species: Mandyr
Looks to: S’rei
Physical Appearance:
This little blue is rather small for his coloration. In fact he is more the size of a green. Which is almost ironic considering he also has the same dainty build as one. Far from being masculine looking this male could almost be described as pretty in stature. He has large fully functional wings that he will use expertly almost from birth. In fact he could put some green firelizards to shame with the twists and tricks he will be able perform. A long thin and whippy tail rounds out his look along with large alluring eyes that always seem to gave a curious quality to them. Unlike his golden sister this blue sports not a half frill but a perfect full one. Certainly a rarity amongst Harmony’s offspring.
His hide is a pale almost white shade of pastel blue. The coloration boosts a certain blue shine and tint in certain lighting leaving no doubt as to his true coloration. If that blue sheen was not enough to stop people from mistaking him as a white his markings should do the trick. One large teal spot covers his left eye and trails in almost miniscule speckles down his back, giving the impression that someone might have sprinkled glitter on him. His wing sails and frill also sport the same teal coloration and display intricate patterns of light and dark when the sun hits them fully.
Personality:
This little blue is possessed with unending curiosity. He’s most concerned with how something works, why it works, and what it’s used for. Or why a human or a dragon performs this or the other action. Or why the sky is blue and not red. For all his curiosity however he’s a bit slow to understand new things and the answer might have to be repeated and re-explained several times over before he understands it completely. He’s almost childlike in the way he reacts to new things and it makes his curiosity endearing rather then just simply annoying. He seems to enjoy the simple things in life the most. Like a choice piece of meat, or a warm spring day, the peace of a babbling stream, or the silent company of a friend. In speech he is not anywhere near gifted enough to form full or grammatically correct sentences. Not that it matters. He gets his point across well enough. He’s intelligent enough for a blue and no dimglow even if he is a tad slow.
He’s extremely loyal, protective, and fond of his bonded even if he’s not an overly affectionate sort. He’ll give light nuzzles on the rare occasion but he’s not really much of a cuddler. His loyalties, protectiveness, and fondness also extend to the few friends he might manage to acquire. Once you have him as a friend you most likely have a friend for life. He’s not easily driven away unless you hurt him or hurt one of the others he’s fond of, most noticeably his bonded. Even then he won’t hate you, just regard you with a quiet sadness and his trust once broken is not something that can or will be easily repaired if ever. You have to mess up pretty big to lose him and once you do good luck getting his trust back. The only acceptation to this rule is his who he will love till his dying day obviously.
His love and acceptance seems to extend to all species big and small and he doesn’t make judgments. He will befriend other mandyrs, firelizards, whers, humans, and even dragons. It seems that the blue has not a prejudiced bone in his body. He seems to be capable of loving any and all. Which is perhaps ironic in a sense because this blue will never chase. He seems to be curious on just why others run but he will never run nor chase himself. He simply does not understand such a concept and seems to have been born with no sexual drive of his own whatsoever. Just because he won’t chase doesn’t mean he doesn’t have enough love for all however.
