WEYRLINGMASTER D'LENT BRONZE RIDER, APPRENTICE SMITH (POTTERY)

Persona : D'lent
Writing Status : PC/Active
Age : 45
Gender : Male
Rank/Craft : Weyrlingmaster, Bronze Rider, Apprentice Smith (Pottery)
Residence : Ierne Island Weyr

Physical Description : D'lent is of medium height, just a little over average at 5' 10". He's built along lean muscular lines. His short cropped curls are dark reddish brown and tumble over his forehead slightly due to a mild widow's peak.

His face is aesthetic looking, with dark brown almond shaped eyes and a blade of a nose. A thin neatly cropped goatee and mustache adorns his pointed chin.

D'lent has long square tipped fingers and scars across the knuckles of both hands. Another pair of small scars adorn his face, one by his jawline and the other bisects his left eyebrow, making it look slightly higher than the right. That crooked eyebrow gives him a mildly sardonic look, as if he is perpetually vaguely amused by the world around him.

Personality : D'lent is a quiet solemn person, preferring solitude more often than company. He is shy by nature and tends to solitary pursuits. If forced into company, however, he will be charming and lively, hiding his nervousness behind a flow of light and witty banter.

His teasing manner and amused look can sometimes keep people from taking him seriously. It usually only takes a moment, though, for him to get his point across. A complete change of manner overtakes D'lent at the sign of any truly serious matter. His intensity of focus can be slightly unnerving to someone seeing it for the first time.

You can always tell how angry D'lent is by how softly he speaks. When his voice drops to a whisper, he is very near the end of his rope and unleashing his formidable temper.

D'lent keeps much of his anger locked behind a tightly controlled wall. Which makes it all the scarier when he does lose control. Thankfully, Ramalth's calm nature keeps this from happening in all but the most extreme cases.

Most of the time however, D'lent hides his shyness behind a charming facade. He acts the playful flirt with a vengeance. Though this aspect of his personality has taken a on a sober side with his new duties as weyrlingmaster. In personal relationships he is as fluid as the sea, never letting anyone get closer than a mating flight. On duty, however, he is as serious as threadfall and just as deadly.

Life Story : D'lent is the son of an oldtime brownrider and his lower caverns weyrmate. D'lent's father D'laini and his weyrmate Sairent believed themselves too old to be parents again when Danlent came along.

Sairent did not foster Danlent as out as she had her other children. She instead tried to raise him herself, knowing he was the last child she would ever have.

Alternately ignored and strictly disciplined by his busy parents, D'lent led a often lonely and confusing childhood. Born in oldtimes, he came forward with the rest of the Weyr as a young lad. D'lent was carried to modern times perched adragonback on his father's brown.

He Impressed Ramalth standing the sands from a clutch laid at the Weyr during modern times. Growing up, D'lent's father had constantly reminded him of the importance, dignity, and position of a bronzerider. After coming forward and Impressing Ramalth, D'lent began to question his father's ideals and values.

D'lent has an older sister who stayed behind, married to a small holder near her mother's home hold. He also has an older brother who failed to Impress after numerous times on the sands. D'lent does not know who is older brother is nor what became of him. His parents do not speak about his older brother.

D'lent's father D'laini is torn between pride and jealousy. He is immensely proud of D'lent for Impressing a bronze, but he is also jealous of that and the fact that D'lent is a fighting rider. D'laini resents being "retired," even though he knows it's for the good of the Weyr.

D'laini's resentment manifests in the form of nagging and constant fault finding about D'lent's riding, his care of his bronze and his personal habits. The Weyrlingmaster was able to keep it in check for the most part during D'lent's training. Not even D'laini was bold enough to challenge the training of a weyrling.

After he was assigned a wing however, it has escalated with every rise in rank that D'lent earned until it finally reached the point of D'lent asking for a transfer to the first opening in another Weyr.

D'lent has been left wary of letting people know he's an "oldtimer". He still bears the scars from a fight with holder lads at a weyrling outing to a northern gather after they found out he'd come forward.

Often left to his own devices before he Impressed Ramalth, D'lent made friends with one of the smithcraft potters. He was picking up the rudimentary skills when he was Searched. After he impressed Ramalth, D'lent kept up with his pottery making as a hobby. If he had stayed in the craft, he would most likely be an advanced journeyman by now.

In turn 37, month 5, life in his new weyr has come to some dire times. There is no mature queen and the weyrlings were left without a master. D'lent was approached by Cr'leb acting weyrleader to take over weyrlingmaster duties. Cr'leb wanted an older mature rider to take the position and asked D'lent on the reccommendation of several people within the weyr.

D'lent is looking forward to and yet is apprehensive about his new duties. He takes his commitment to the new weyrlings very seriously. He knows that it'll will be on the merits of his teaching, if they survive their life as dragonriders.


Dragon's Name: Ramalth
Dragon's Colour: Bronze
Dragon's Age: 31
Sire and Dam: Transfer
Age of Rider at Impression : 14

Dragon's Description : An air of quiet dignity surrounds Ramalth. His strength of composure can be unnerving to some. Ramalth's seemingly boundless patience is both a boon and a burden to his more volatile rider. hile it helps D'lent keep his own temper, it sometimes wears thin as well...particularly when you know your dragon is right, but don't want to admit it. Mating flights are one of the only times you may see this placid bronze lose his cool.

Dragon's Personality : Ramalth was considered a large bronze amongst the oldtimer dragons of his former Weyr, but compared to those of the modern Pern he is just a little over the average. Perfectly proportioned and a deep even bronze, Ramalth is a fine example of a dragon in his prime. Only a fine lacing of scores over his left wing sail and a patch on his left hind leg mark his gleaming hide.

Last updated on 1-Oct-04