Name of Persona: Lyandra
Age of Persona: 32
Residence: Silver Ridge Weyrhold
Dragon: Loracanth
Dragon Age: 17
Craft: Starsmith
Craft Rank: Journeyman
Pets: Firelizard
Pet Name: Desatin

Description of Persona:Tall and thin, those are two words to describe Lyandra. Beyond that, are her intelligent, hazel eyes and ebony black hair. All accenting a rather pretty face. She's well-proportioned, and muscular. All that some women could ask for in a body really. However, such features tend to balance out the gruffness of her personality.

Lyandra...Lyandra..woo-hee, The Weyrhold is going to have fun with this one. Of all the adjectives one could use to describe her, caring and compassionate are /definately/ not some of them. She's intelligent and quick-witted, and Lyandra believes that every competent person is just as good as having the same virtue of excellent high-pressure thought. She has no acceptance for anyone that loses their head under pressure, and scream-y, flighty women are liable to be literally slapped back into their senses. The same will go for men who aren't as stable under anxiety. She's blunt, bold, and takes no thought into whose feeling she might be slicing by making any comment. If anyone slacks off in Wing Drills, due to Lyandra, they know it. As a matter of fact, if they do anything that she doesn't see as a good idea, she lets them know it. Opposite of your typical greenrider stereotype, she's intelligent, fierce, and anything but flighty. Hm..Fierce. That's a good word for this one actually. More like vicious. This one's extremely competetive. Rank means little to her really, almost nothing over skill and intelligence of the person who holds it. But Lyandra knows what she wants and won't think twice about stepping on anyone who gets in the way of that. She's strong-willed, also. Iron-willed more like it. You'll never see Lyandra backing down from well...anything really. Any sort of challenge is completely open with her.

Brief History of Persona: Born the daughter Artanya and L'dron of Southern Weyr, Lyandra wasn't as content to sit around and foolishly dream of dragons like the other women. It was straight to the Smith hall for her. Unlike most people, Lyandra loved raw mathematics and theology, which is what truly attracted her to the Starsmith Craft. She wasn't as flighty and worrysome as some of the other apprentices about handling things such as acids and chemicals whilst working in the labs. Therefore, working with things like Agenothree (a.k.a Nitric Acid) never bothered her, and this boldness helped her to gain that skill that brought her to the rank of sr. apprentice at the age of 15, after 3 turns of work. She was on the verge of being journeywoman when, at the age of 16, she was Searched to Southern Weyr. Upon her first Standing, Lyandra Impressed green Loracanth, who, much to her surprise, shared the same, stable mindscape. Turns passed, she became wingthird, left that position for Weyrlingmaster 3rd, then left the Weyr once she decided that the current leadership and herself didn't agree. This landed her right into Silver Ridge to start a new life.

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