LORD HOLDER IVERAN

Persona : Iveran
Writing Status : NPC/free
Age : 31
Gender : Male
Rank/Craft : Lord Holder
Residence : Sonnette's Dawn Hold

Physical Description : Iveran is not particularly tall or short, lean or heavy-set - he's just average. He has sandy brown-blond hair that he keeps cut functionally short, grey-blue eyes. What stops him from blending into a crowd completely is his face; it's exceptionally mobile, and he's very expressive. Sun and laugh lines combine to give his looks some character.

Personality : The expressiveness of his face is a true reflection of Iveran's personality. He wears his heart on his sleeve, and everyone nearby will know what he's feeling. Most of the time, he's cheerful, with a complex sense of humour that appreciates what he sees as the inherent ridiculousness of life: occasionally dark moods get the better of him and, when that happens, it can take some time for him to sort himself out. He's fond of colourful turns of phrase and metaphors that reflect his intricate mind. He has a very good memory.

Life Story : Iveran's father was a trader who'd fallen in love and left the caravan for the sake of it, marrying into a small but prosperous hold. He still retained his contacts with his travelling brethren where possible, though, and when Iveran was old enough, he spent some turns travelling as a trader.

While he appreciated the travelling, the trading aspect was less to his liking, and he ended up apprenticing to the Harpercraft. They put his never-ending curiosity to good use; while his singing voice was no better than average, he was quite good on stringed instruments, and even better on the archivists' and covert side of things. Between the two, he made journeyman by his early twenties.

While there, he also formed a lasting attachment with another harper, Rochan, and the two have contrived to remain together wherever possible. Given a harper's trade, that hasn't always been so; the two treasured what time they could manage to spend together. Pressure from family has led to them keeping their relationship somewhat private: while Rochan was originally weyrbred and thus comes from a fairly accepting background, Iveran has never made an issue of his preferences and his family has never met Rochan.

When Lady Anlie's daughter, Anilin, died of a fever, Anlie departed Sonnette's Dawn Hold; on top of the loss of a beloved spouse in Terel and the dissolution of another espousal to Pendal, this last loss was simply one too many.

Iveran had never really considered holding but, related to Anlie through his father, he was eligible, and Anlie's closest relative. He took Hold at Sonnette's Dawn halfway through Turn 39, requesting that Rochan also be posted there as a teaching harper, a request that the Harper Hall found it could grant.

Pet Name : Attie
Pet Species : Canine

Pet Description : Attie is of mixed breeding - part guard canine, part spit canine, and large part unknown. He was whelped around the start of M5, T39 and acquired by Lord Iveran at the SDH Market Day in M7, T39.

At nearly six months of age, he is a tall and leggy canine with a rough, wiry grey coat. No matter how much others plead with him--and they have, often--Iveran has been lax about training him. With the boundless energy that young guard canines have, the lack of training is obvious to anyone who meets Attie.

Last updated on 06-May-12.