GREENRIDER HILA

Persona : Hila
Writing Status : PC/Active
Age : 16
Gender : Female
Rank/Craft : Green Dragonrider/Apprentice Weaver
Residence : Thread's End Weyr

Physical Description : Hila is just over 5' tall. She has long curly blond hair and a very pale complexion for someone born and raised in the south. She has green eyes and a generous mouth. She has not yet attained her full growth but is developing a curvaceous figure.

Personality : Hila used to think she knew what she wanted and went out to get it, by fair means or foul. Although by nature a bit of a loner, she did have friends who were attracted to her because she could be very witty and amusing. They were always a bit wary of her though as she would lash out -- mostly with her tongue -- when they displeased her. These friends of her childhood were of the more easily led and younger variety which left Hila feeling rather discontented about this although she did not realize why.

After a turn at the weaver crafthall at Threads End Hold her character underwent a remarkable metamorphosis. She was now a happy and gregarious girl with real friends.

Hila had an underlying yearning to love and to be loved in return although she would vigorously deny such claims. Now that she has Impressed Clannath, those who saw sparkles of the real Hila underneath all the bravado were sure that she would take great strides and become her true self at last.

Now that she is a year older (and wiser) this is coming true.

Life Story : Hila, then named Pina, was born in a small cot hold some five days travel from Thread's End Weyr on day 1 of month 12, turn 22. She was the first of three sisters. When she had ten turns, her drunkard father disappeared: no one knows where. Her mother, having difficulties supporting the three girls, decided to try her luck inland, so they set off towards the interior where they had heard Hila's uncle was living. The two younger girls did not make it, dying on the journey. Perhaps frightened of showing Hila affection in case the same thing happened to her, her mother became cold and unfeeling toward her remaining daughter. She met and married a Herder domiciled at Low Meadow Hold, four days ride south east of Thread's End Harpercraft Hall and reluctantly took Hila with her when she went there as a wife. Her mother had two children by him and lavished all her love and attention on them, ignoring Hila. Hila withdrew into herself and with this withdrawal came an ambition - an ambition to do well and to escape from her mother in any way possible, preferably by finding herself a husband of good lineage or prospects. She became what in the Hold could be termed "difficult," a thorn in the flesh of any adult (or older child) in charge of her. The only aptitude she showed was that of sewing and weaving and appeared to enjoy her duties in that area although she did not readily show it.

A journeywoman from Thread's End Harpercraft Hall, during one of her peripatetic journeys harpering through her circuit came across Hila at Low Meadow Hold. The holders were at their wits end as to how to deal with the recalcitrant teenager and the journeywoman made enquiries as to how she could help.

The journeywoman talked to Hila and asked her if she would like to become a weaver. Hila agreed although without much enthusiasm. The apprenticeship was arranged and Hila arrived at Threads End Hold shortly afterwards; in 36. After a shaky start Hila settled in more or less and those in charge of her did not report any misdemeanours, at least no more than those committed by any other apprentice.

By the end of her first turn as an apprentice, Hila had settled in well into her new life and was becoming a reliable and forward- looking girl liked by the journeymen and women in charge of her because of her willingness to work and her new-found aptitude for the weaver-craft although she still did not make friends easily. She was totally committed now to learning her craft and was enjoying the process of becoming a weaver.

In turn 37 she was Searched and taken to Threads End Hold but refused the honour as she didn't feel ready at that point to make the commitment of being a dragonrider. She also missed the crafthall and her first real friends there. However, the dragonrider who had Searched her became a good friend and was resolved to persuade Hila to change her mind no matter how long that took.

Eventually, she stood on the Sands and it was when she Impressed that Hila changed her name from Pina, a name that she hated, in memory of the journeywoman who had first realised that the adolescent hid a lot of good behind all her troublesome ways.

Now with Clannath a member of UFRF she is a competent and self assured young woman who performs her duties as a fighting dragon with resolve and diligence.

Dragon's Name : Clannath
Dragon's Colour : Green
Dragon's Age : 1 Turn
Sire/Dam : Dredeth / Portiath
Rider's Age at Impression : 15

Physical Dragon : Clannath is neither a small nor a large hatchling and is, unusually pretty well one shade of green all over except for some dapples and blotches down the left hand side. It has to be seen whether this will change as she grows and matures.

Dragon's Personality:On the hatching sands, she most definitely came across as knowing her own mind about her life-mate. Like all hatchlings, she didn't want to share Hila with anyone. She is now very like her life-mate in both attitude and personality.

Last updated on 05-Nov-11.