MASTER HEALER ASTIRA

Persona : Astira
Writing Status : PC/Active
Age : 41
Gender : Female
Rank/Craft : Master Healer
Residence : Sonnettes Dawn Hold

Physical Description : Astira has shoulder length wavy hair, very dark brown, almost black mixed with broad streaks of white. She has blue eyes and a growing number of smile lines around them. Skin is well tanned from daily exposure to the southern sun. She has a thin athletic body build, but stands a little over 5 feet tall. Astira walks with a cane because of an injury to her right knee, but she doesn't need it. It's more habit than necessity.

Personality : Astira is very intelligent and not afraid to voice her opinion. She loves the outdoors; she has always been a naturalist. She is very quiet and introspective when she is outdoors but with the addition of a pair of firelizards, and a fosterling she has become more and more outgoing and interested in interacting with others, developing some deep friendships along the way.

Life Story : Born in a very small hold beholding to Fort Hold in the north, she was kicked by a herd beast when she was five turns old. Her knee was fractured and because the hold was small and the untrained "healer" incompetent she never healed properly. She therefore walks with a limp and often uses a cane.

She was fostered out to the herbalist healer immediately after the accident. She apprenticed to the Healer Hall when she was twelve. In her first assignment out of the Healer Hall she was assigned to Southern Weyr and never wanted to return north.

A tireless researcher, Astira has spent most of her career walking the southern continent in her search for new herbs and insect venoms to add to the Healer Hall Pharmacopeia.

Three turns ago she was attacked by a wild feline. After the attack Astira requested an assistant be assigned to accompany her in her travels. The following journey into the field, Astira was accompanied by Harper Journeyman Danif.

In month 11 of Turn 38 she applied to begin work on her Masters, and transferred to Thread's End Harper Hall to study under Master Healer Caljah. In month 12 she passed the Masters Exam and moved back into field research with TEHH as her home base. When in the hall she is an adjunct instructor, teaching classes on research techniques, and herbal infusions.

Month 3 of Turn 39, while on another journey into the southern wilds, Astira purchased a firelizard egg for her assistant Danif, only to have her assistant searched by Ierne Island Weyr and subsequently impress a bronze dragon. She therefore found herself the owner of a second firelizard, and looking for a new traveling companion and assistant. At this time Jardon, one of the candidates who failed to impress, joined Astira in her travels.

In Month 5 of turn 39, while completing her field research on some glow mutations in a cave off the coast of the Great Bay, she found a young girl named Qian, her mother fatally injured. Now 7 months pregnant, Astira decided to keep the girl as a fosterling, and to move back to her home base at Thread’s End Harper Hall to give birth. On the return journey she stopped off at Sonnettes Dawn Hold to return the close-up viewer she had borrowed for her research, and discovered the hold had just lost its Master Healer. She was asked to fill the position, and was delighted to accept.

Pet Name : Twitter (Twit)
Pet Species : Firelizard
Pet Color : Blue

Pet Description : Very lazy, with a tendency to overeat. Prefers to glide, rather than fly. He is never the less very affectionate and occasionally curious enough to get into trouble. He is content to allow anyone to feed him, as long as he gets fed.

Pet Name : Aureate (Aure)
Pet Species : Firelizard
Pet Color : Gold

Pet Description : A brassy gold, almost bronze in color, Aure is highly intelligent, and learns quickly, she will allow only Astira to feed, and caress her.

Last updated on 03-Dec-10.