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E'mil and Brown Shrateth Name: E'mil (Eramil) Played by: (Your name here) Carah Pronounced: E-mill (EAR-a-mill) Nickname: None Sex: Male Rank: Dragonhealer, rider Age: 43 (because I like it!) Birthplace: High Reaches Hold Mother's Name, rank, location: Esmeralda, Lady Holder, High Reaches Hold (deceased) Father's Name, rank, location: Millarant, Lord Holder, High Reaches Hold (deceased) Siblings: One older brother (blood heir) and two younger sisters. Whereabouts unknown, presumed deceased. Significant others: Kalinis, Weyrmate, rider to green Presereth (deceased) Children: None Height: 5'11" Build: Medium body, long arms, legs and fingers Hair color/style: Dark blond, close cropped as a seasoned rider generally keeps it. Eyes: Deep blue Complexion: Somewhat pale, burns when in the sun, but then tans evenly. Anything you feel would help describe your persona better: E'mil is a VERY private person and therefore, makes friends with some difficulty. Habits: Mumbling to himself when he's thinking. Hobbies: None Personality: E'mil has a sad demeanor about him, but puts up a brave front in company. He smiles slowly and briefly. He is intelligent, but not cocky. He isn't really shy, but it takes a lot for him to open up to anyone. He is a hard worker and cares, generally, more about dragons than humans. In a crowd, he is quiet. Alone, he can be heard mumbling to himself in a constant stream. He has a grace about him, especially with his long fine-boned fingers. There isn't a stitch on dragonhide that E'mil cannot master, and many dragons have very little scarring from his deft nursing.
Background: Eramil is the second son to the Lord and Lady of
High Reaches Hold. He had the normal childhood, with one
exception. He wasn't required to learn how to run a Hold since
he was not the heir. His mother doted on him since his elder
brother was his father's favorite. He actually spent more time
with his younger sisters than he did his brother, especially
since one sister was barely 11 months younger.
His early teen turns heralded very few changes, though he began
to dream about what he wanted to do with his life. As his
brother was to follow in his father's footsteps as Lord Holder,
Eramil was free to pursue just about any craft he felt he could
do, or had an interest in. But the only interest Eramil had was
dragons. He already had a firelizard that was given to him on
his 13th turn. A gift from his mother. The little brown was
Eramil's best friend and constant companion. It was the bonding
of this firelizard that awakened Eramil's interest in dragons.
Now, the young boy took every opportunity to be around whenever
a rider happened to be at the Hold. He'd seen every color
including Weyrwoman Bassan's gold Iasath. To ride a dragon was
all Eramil thought of.
At 16 turns, Eramil got his chance. B'risy, his brown firelizard
always announced the arrival of any dragons and that day was no
exception. The little brown immediately let Eramil know (and
disrupted Harper classes in the process) that a blue dragon had
just landed. That blue dragon, from High Reaches Weyr, was on
search and Eramil nearly knocked several classmates down in his
rush to get outside. To Eramil's complete delight and
excitement, he was found acceptable by the search dragon. He
raced into the Hold, grabbed what belongings he thought he would
need, kissed his mother goodbye and waved at his father, brother
and sisters and never looked back. It wasn't that he didn't love
his family, he just loved dragons more.
Eramil stood for four clutches before his lifemate appeared. But
Eramil never let his patience get thin, never let the repeated
failures get him down. He stood and stood until brown Shrateth
emerged from his shell and announced that E'mil was his and his
alone. E'mil could not have been happier. Their weyrlinghood was
uneventful and neither E'mil nor Shrateth were best or worst in
their class. The only thing that stood out was E'mil's
overwhelming compassion for not only his own brown, but for
every dragon at the Weyr. He was found, generally against orders
and shirking chores, always helping in the dragon infirmary. The
resident dragonhealer took a special interest in E'mil's natural
skill with the dragons and Shrateth's calming effect and taught
the young brownrider everything he knew. Upon graduation, E'mil
was promoted to Assistant Dragonhealer, and when the older rider
retired to Paradise Weyr, E'mil took over.
When the shakes
came, it was all E'mil could do to keep his sanity. As he
watched in horror the death of so many dragons, his mind went
numb. Shrateth, sensing his rider's complete withdrawal, nearly
tore the rubble that was all that was left of the Weyr apart in
an effort to find his mate, Presereth, even though he knew her
to be dead. E'mil, his mind consumed with guilt at not being
able to save the dragons, and Shrateth, his tan hide the most
awful gray, fled from the destroyed Weyr. He, and Shrateth
wandered for several months, going from hold to hall, doing what
they could to help. E'mil's depression deepened at every
encounter and it was nearly killing him to watch his beloved
dragon suffer with him. In what E'mil considered a stroke of
luck, he had been doing drills with his wing when the shakes
came and had a copy of the thread charts tucked into his jacket.
As such, he was able to stay away from the areas experiencing
threadfall, so didn't have to deal with Shrateth's innate
instinct to fight which his dragon would have been unable to do
in his current condition. It was more than he could have dealt
with after all that he and his dragon had lost. It was
Shrateth's enormous patience and love of his lifemate that got
E'mil through the roughest times.
It was nearly four months after the shakes that Shrateth managed
to convince E'mil it was time to find a new home. E'mil didn't
want to, but knew his brown was right. So, with a heavy heart
and more dismay and despair at the extent of the devastated
Pern, E'mil and Shrateth worked their way across the northern
continent, finally reaching a functioning Weyr, Free Falling. It
hadn't occurred to E'mil to see if Ista, being on an island, was
not destroyed. It also didn't occur to E'mil to go to the
southern continent. He'd never been there, so wouldn't have had
coordinates anyway. His weyrling days seemed eons ago and they
had been flying straight for so long, E'mil wasn't even sure he
could trust the coordinates that had been drilled into him as a
weyrling, including Free Falling or going /between/ at all for
that matter. They have now been at Free Falling long enough to
settle, but not long enough for E'mil to forget what he'd seen,
what he'd been through, though he never, ever speaks about it.
Dragon Information Name: Shrateth Age: 26 Color: Shrateth is a light brown, almost bordering on tan. He is uniformly the same color across his entire body, with no variations at all. Sire/Dame: Aildorth/Iasath Personality: Shrateth is a very, very patient brown. He has a calming effect on injured dragons. He is as quiet as his rider, and has a longer memory than most dragons. He protects E'mil, sometimes, even when he shouldn't. He has a special way with other dragons and can usually even get firelizards to behave. Wing: Star Minion Wing Where impressed: High Reaches Weyr PET Information: Name: B'risy Age: 30 Color: Dark brown, almost bordering black Species: Firelizard Personality: B'risy is a normal firelizard, curious and annoying. He can be loud, but not often. He is fiercely protective of his bonded and will attack if he feels E'mil is in any danger. He is excellent in rooting out tunnelsnakes and an accomplished hunter. He is especially tuned to dragons. HOLD or CRAFT Information: Hold or Hall name: High Reaches Hold Craft: N/A Time spent in Craft: N/A
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