CANDIDATE MARNA

Persona : Marna
Writing Status : PC/Active
Age : 17
Gender : Female
Rank/Craft : Candidate/Apprentice Beastcrafter
Residence : IIW

Physical Description : Marna is considered shorter than most of her peers. Standing only about 5'2 she's constantly at the butt of her three older brothers' jokes. Despite being short, she's very slender; her time helping with herdbeasts making her smaller body lean and very limber. Marna's skin is very pale, making her seem fragile, but her true strength is shown in her gentle honey brown eyes. Her black hair is barely reaches her pale shoulders and is always kept up in two low-hanging pigtails. Marna has small hands and nimble fingers that allow her to help out with problems that her much larger brothers have problems with. Even though she's worked most of her life, Marna still has gentle hands that she uses when soothing herdbeasts. She also has a pale, thin scar crossing her back from her left shoulder to her right hip that she received when she was young from an accident with a herdbeast.

Personality : Marna always has a kind word for others when they are feeling down. Her fragile appearance hides an indomidiable spirit that keeps her going no matter how tough times become. Marna is normally very soft spoken with others but she does know how to speak up for herself. Gentle to a fault and sometimes clumsy, Marna knows how to smooth over any situation with a smile or friendly words. Marna is always smiling about something and laughs easily, especially at herself when she has a particualarly clumsy day.

Life Story : Marna was born in Sonnette's Dawn Hold the youngest child of a Journeyman Beastherder and a simple kitchen cook. When she was ten, her brother Jarazet brought home a firelizard egg home for their mothers birthday. A small green hatched and the family named her Jade. Marna's mother managed to teach the little creature to deliver messages; though only to her small family and herself. Her oldest brother Martel was found on Search when she was thirteen and soon became M'tel when he Impressed brown Tozairith at Thread's End Weyr. He remained at the weyr with his new life partner while she and the rest of her family returned to Sonnette's Dawn Hold after the hatching. When she turned fourteen she was chosen to apprentice under Masterherder Konner and two turns later traveled with him to Green Ridge Hold for the recent Homecoming celebration.

While at the hold, Marna was found on Search for gold Sinevath's clutch at Ierne Island Weyr where she now resides. Her family is extremely proud of her, and, though apprehensive about the outcome, hope to find some way to come and watch the hatching when their daughter stands on the hatching sands. Even her oldest brother M'tel has promised to make the hatching if possible.

After failing to Impress at the hatching, Marna has decided to try her luck on the sands for another time, and, though disappointed, remains at Ierne Island Weyr. Now, almost a month later, Marna has successfully settled into her role of candidite and has developed an ever growing friendship with Fr'din, the young bluerider that Searched her, and with his dragon Ganith too.

On the evening of her seventeenth birthing-day, and just after threadfall had come and gone over the weyr, Marna's brother M'tel visited her at the weyr and presented her with a single firelizard egg that he'd bought for her at a gather. About a sevenday after receiving it, the egg hatched and out came a tiny blue firelizard that Marna then named Ven.

Pet Name : Ven
Pet Species : Firelizard
Pet Color : Blue

Pet Description : Ven is a small and dainty little blue. His hide is a deep shade of sapphire and he has lighter shades of sky blue on his underside. Ven also has a pale turquoise strip across his multi-faceted eyes. Ven is sweet and gentle. He's also very much his pet's boy. He loves people; especially children and prefers their company to that of other flits.

Last updated on 14-Jun-08.