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Persona's Name: D'ian
Pronounced: dee AHN
Nickname: Dee
Age: 47
Birthdate: 03/16/482
Gender: Male
Sexual Preference: Hetero
Physical Information
Build: 5' 10", medium, fairly muscular
Hair: light brown heavily marked with gray, receding slowly from the forehead
Eyes: brown
Facial Features: square chin, plenty of time and weather wrinkles
Complexion: Dark. Caucasian, but his skin has been toasted to a nice nut brown almost everywhere. Almost.
Identifying marks/scars: sharply demarkated tan line. You guess where.
Clothing: tan shorts and crisp white shirts much of the time, but will sometimes wear colorful shirts. It just depends on his mood.
Accessories: bone and bead bracelet his sister Zamora made for him as a goodbye present when he left home Turns ago, a feline claw and bead necklace he made himself, a black hat with a feline claw and bead band on it, and a really really big knife.
Birthplace: Tillek Hold
Mother: Shannarra, wife, 67, Tillek Hold
Father: Iaian, Master Seacrafter, 70, Tillek Hold
Siblings: Zamora, wife, 45, Tillek Hold
Garrette, wife, 42, Tillek Hold
Lauxin, Master Seacrafter, 35, Tillek Hold
Fliktor, Master Seacrafter, 32, Tillek Hold
Significant Other: N/A
Children: Zeneida, Journeywoman Beastcrafter, 29, Keroon Hold
Frisco, Candidate, 18, Telgar Weyr
Other: He has friends in nearly every Weyr and major Hold, and several of the trader caravans. Enemies too.
Location: Red Star Weyr
Personality:
D'ian is one of those guys that is larger than life. Genial and easygoing most of the time, makes friends as easily as he breathes. But there is a definitely tougher side to him. He is a fearless and cunning hunter, and if pushed, has no qualms about thrashing the daylights out of any man. Women are an entirely different matter. He's never struck one and never will. He will, however, reduce their egos with a few well-chosen words if they get him mad.
History:
D'ian has Pern's worst case of wanderlust ever. As a kid, he ranged around Tillek Hold, and most of that peninsula, driving his parents to distraction because he'd disappear for days or even weeks and then pop up again, unscathed, and go on about life at the Hold as if he'd never been gone. Then, a few weeks later, he'd be off again.
At sixteen, he decided he wanted to see the world, and left with a trader caravan. He spent the next two years galavanting about. He settled for a short time in Keroon, and fathered his first child there. After she was born, he moved on. He went wherever he felt like, sometimes staying for months, working at whatever needed doing to earn his keep, then he'd move on again. If it involved physical labor, he's done it. He learned to hunt during this time, and became quite proficient at it, hunting wherries and the few wild whers in the North.
He was twenty-two when his life took a rather unexpected turn. He was at Fort Weyr, watching a Hatching, when a very insistent brown demanded that he come feed him. D'ian did as he was told, and one of the odder dragonpairs was created. Because Zenioth had nearly as much wanderlust as his rider, weyrling training, and having to stay put in one place, nearly drove D'ian to distraction,
but he made it and then he and Zenioth could do as they pleased.
They developed the habit of disappearing for days at a time, no one knew exactly where. During one of these side trips, a rather shady character mentioned the South, and the riches there for the taking if one could survive the dangers. D'ian cared nothing for the riches to be found. It was the tales of huge, feirce felines that got his attention. Soon enough he and Zenioth became quite proficient at taking down the wily felines, and D'ian, thanks to the
much-prized feline pelts, was able to afford any luxury he wanted.
When word got passed around that a new Weyr was going to be started in the South, D'ian was among those to help scout out a possible location, since his knowledge of the South was pretty comprehensive. He also volunteered to live at the new Weyr, and he and Zenioth were among the first to arrive when the place
was marginally liveable. That everything has gone so wrong has D'ian severely pissed. If he ever gets his hands on the troublemakers ...
Dragon
Name: Zenioth
Color: Brown
Age: 25
Size: 23 feet
Personality: curious, and has the same wanderlust that D'ian has. Always wants to know what's beyond the next ridge. He enjoys their little trips into the jungle.
Physical description: sturdy, has a few scars here and there from close calls with felines.
Where impressed: Fort Weyr
Information last updated: 07-20-04