SENIOR APPRENTICE SMITH ALKRON

Persona : Alkron
Writing Status : NPC/Owned
Age : 23
Gender : Male
Rank/Craft : Senior Apprentice Smith
Residence : Green Ridge Hold

Physical Description : After numerous turns of smithing, Alkron is a hulky man, having inherited his father's large body build. He has hazel eyes and a dirty-blonde mane of hair that tends to lighten during summer and darken in the winter.

Personality : Alkron developed after his father in more than just physical nature. Like Kronel, he is rather stoical and prefers to stay away from crowds. He is a skilled and hard worker, preferring the menial tasks and doing most of the basic smith crafting at the Hold smithy. Some say he's a little dumb, though his father is convinced he's just too lazy to use his brain. Alkron is very dependable and will get a job done on time, as long as it doesn't require much thought to do it.

Life Story : Alkron was born as the second child of Kronel and Alionette at Telgar Smithcrafthall. The early turns of his life were marked by his father's journeying and his mother's struggle to care for the growing family, including a retarded sister that was born when Alkron was five turns of age. Alkron always felt very protective of his simpleminded younger sister. As soon as she finally learned how to walk and started accompanying her brothers, the other kids at the Hall soon learned that teasing her was a bad idea. At the time Kronel settled down with his family to prepare for his Mastery, Alkron had successfully beaten up most of the other boys around his age. He was never proud of that achievement, though his less brawny younger brother tended to brag with his big brother's strength any chance he got.

When Alkron was twelve turns of age, the whole family moved to Crom where his father took a position as Mastersmith. Alkron loved the fact that his father now had his own workshop with his very own anvil and soon he was sneaking after his father and begging to help out. Consequently, Kronel officially took him on as a Smithcraft apprentice a turn later. Alkron was fascinated by both stone and steel, and his father thought him to be a promising candidate for the architectural side of smithing. But it soon became apparent that he either wasn't willing or wasn't able to learn the required math. During the first turns of his apprenticeship, his older sister was Searched and Impressed a green at High Reaches Weyr, thus being the first to leave the family home.

At the time the family did its second big move, Alkron was the oldest of the kids and no child any more with 21 Turns of age. He finally moved into his own quarters with his brother Alionel when they arrived at Ierne Island Weyr, though he still took his meals with the rest of the family. His mother's growing concern about his long apprenticeship of by now nine Turns was starting to cause arguments between his parents. While Alionette thought he should long have advanced to journeyman rank and Kronel had concerns to make the decision as the boy's father, Alkron wasn't all too eager himself to get promoted. He was quite content with staying in one place, and journeying wasn't something he was looking forward to.
It was Ierne's dragons who brought about the yet biggest change in Alkron's life. When he was Searched for a clutch on Ierne's black sands, he realized what he wanted to do in his life was smithing and raising a family, not dragonriding. His refusal to accept Search prompted his father to contact Master Whitrit at Green Ridge Hold to assist with finally promoting Alkron to Journeyman rank. Thinking he was being offered a place at the Hold smithy simply to put some distance between himself and the Search dragons, Alkron is yet unaware that his skills are being tested.

Last updated on 13-Dec-04.