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Khinarae of white Ralaarth

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Khinarae of white Ralaarth

K H I N A R A E
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BASICS

RETIRE INFO: Retire
NAME: Khinarae, 'Kina'
GENDER: female
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ORIENTATION: Biromantic Demipansexual

BIRTHDATE: Spring 2682
AGE: eighty-six Turns as of Midsummer 2768
LOCATION: Semaca Weyr
OCCUPATION: former Weyrlingmaster, Minuet wingrider, Master Harper, invalid consultant
WING: retired

APPEARANCE
EYES: dark brown, always full of mirth
HAIR: white, well kept and clean
HEIGHT AND BUILD: five feet and five inches, curvy and soft
PLAY-BY: Nichelle Nichols
FULL APPEARANCE:
Kina looks deceptively young for her age. She still moves freely, and rarely needs mobility aids. Her posture has always been very correct, and remains so as she works through her ninth decade. She dresses simply, but well, in clothes older than many of her students. Her dark skin bears only minimal scarring, but a myriad of wrinkles from a life well-spent.

In her youth, Khinarae wore scandalous dresses, and favored the color red. Nowadays, well, she still favors the color red, but her clothes are worn and faded. She wears many different shades of dull red and pink, and has settled into a very comfortable configuration of short dress over practical breeches.

PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Khinarae is a perfect lady. She is polite and well-mannered, and never, ever forgets courtesy. She is soft-spoken and sweet, the very image of a lady, with a manner that makes even an insult seem like a compliment.

She is also more than willing to call out bad behavior, and even at her advanced age, she is more than willing to dole out physical punishment. She has ridden a dragon for longer than most of her peers have been alive. Although age has not always been kind to her, she is fit. Try to suggest that she is old and feeble, and see how quickly you are proven wrong.

Many people, when they get to be a certain age, desire familiarity. The comforts of home, all that jazz. Khinarae has spent her whole life going on one adventure after another. She is fierce in her determination, and sneaky in application. To ask her, it is entirely within possibility that she could influence the leaders of a weyr into a different course of action, all the while seeming like only a sounding board of ideas. According to her, of course.

HISTORY
FAMILY: Tangentially related to Ruatha Blood, but her direct connection is dead. She has several children, nieces, nephews, and grandchildren. It is possible that she and Fartoo share a grandchild.
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: none current
BIRTHPLACE: Ruatha Hold
HISTORY:
Khinarae was the third child of the Lord Holder's bastard son, in no danger of inheriting the Hold, but still part of the family - and subject to the same formality as the formal Blood. She was sponsored to the Harper Hall at ten, where she found an aptitude in both Voice and Harp. She was never formally tapped as either, but walked the tables at eighteen. She was posted to Fort Weyr a Turn later, to supplement their Weyrsinger.

Ralaarth had to come looking for her rider, who had not been formally Searched because of her craft. She found Kina in the Stands, talking to her grandparents.

Do not make me come up there, Khinarae. Your Ralaarth is small, but would cause a panic.

It took Kina most of a Turn to figure out that she had to focus on becoming a rider before she could continue her Harper studies. She graduated and became a full rider in Aurora Wing. As it was a time of peace, the Pass not scheduled to start for more than fifty Turns, she was permitted to continue her studies.

Khinarae was promoted to Master Harper in the Turn 2717, when she was thirty-five and Ralaarth had just turned fifteen. She was officially Fort Weyr's Weyrsinger, but she eventually became the assistant weyrlingmaster. Harpers are teachers, and she not only had a dragon, but a desire to mold the next generation.

Then Golre declared war on Pern, and Khinarae had to learn how to defend herself, her dragon, her weyr, and her charges. For more than twenty Turns, she and Ralaarth fought, dragon to dragon. It made her sick, and she fled Fort for more stable locales. Ista Weyr.

Ista was marginally safer than Fort, but no less affected by the strange mutations that began to crop up. Kina watched what was commonly called the 'first' mutation as he grew up without defect, and sired a clutch. He was the first of what turned out to be many.

Ralaarth never Rose in Flight, but that did not prevent Khinarae from forming attachments of her own. She never attached a fire lizard, although she has had a myriad of canines, felines, laprines, and - in her youth - more than a few attempts at keeping semurines as pets. Casual and serious liaisons alike produced a few children. At least one of her children Impressed dragonkin, and more than two of the subsequent grandchildren also Impressed. The oldest of her great-grandchildren is candidacy age.

Khinarae and Ralaarth survived the first war of the weyrs, and sometimes she wonders the cost. Kina watched the growing tensions between the weyrs again, and applied for a permanent transfer to Semaca. Master Harper Khinarae wishes to live out the rest of her life in the sun, not worrying about politics but training young dragons and their riders. That is her passion.
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UPDATES
  • Spring 2765 - Khina's first class of weyrlings at Semaca is the Songs clutch, laid before the weyr was officially recognized.
  • Early Fall 2765 - A mystery egg got left on Semaca's sands. Kina and her assistant Naxen attended the hatching, and greeted their new student - Liyanel of gold Nebulaeth.
  • Early Winter 2765 - Fall was mild, but in the aftermath, Kina and Ralaarth went to the beach. Ralaarth stepped on a trundlebug, and discovered their stench. Gross!
  • Late Winter 2765 - Another mystery egg! Kina's one-on-one sessions take their toll, and this was the first hatching she's attended where she wasn't excited to see the baby. Shortly afterwards, a number of females Rise and clutch.
  • Spring 2766 - Another mild Fall, and a mild fall. Kina cut her chin while falling on some rocks. She's fine, but a little shaken.
  • Late Spring 2766 - Semaca's first proper clutch brings chaos the the sands. Ralaarth and Kina offer shelter to the weyrlings when Benden's gold Nuuth threatens one of her children.
  • Early Winter 2767 - Shortly after the hatching of Nebulaeth's maiden clutch, the Aegis group, Kina's health took a terrible tumble. She stepped down as Weyrlingmaster, with the caveat that her replacement could use her as a resource for the weyrlings.
  • Late Spring 2768 - Kina's wish to return to teach the weyrlings seemed further and further away. She and Ralaarth formally retired from all previous duties, which never sat well for Kina. She hated doing nothing.
  • Early Summer 2768 - Kina and Ralaarth retire to their weyr for an afternoon nap. Neither of them wake up.
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R A L A A R T H
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NAME: Ralaarth
BIRTHDATE Winter 2702
AGE: sixty-six as of Early Summer 2768

APPEARANCE
LENGTH: twenty-nine feet
HEIGHT: six feet feet and nine inches
WINGSPAN: forty-one feet
COLOR: white
HEX CODE: #696e70
FULL APPEARANCE:

Ralaarth is a dull white, tinged with grey in more places than not. Her front end is prominently more grey than the rest of her. The only places that display a true, if not brilliant, white are on her ribs. The rest of her hide is a study in patches of light grey, uniform under bad light.

She is built along thin lines. Her wings seem to be her most prominent feature besides the bold coloring on her neck and face. Time has taken that hereditary thinness, though, and turned it from thin into gaunt. She isn't unhealthy, but weight does not stick to her the way it does to some dragons.

PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY: If Khinarae is the adventurous spirit, then Ralaarth is the voice of reason. She is resilient; not resistant to change, but adaptable yet consistent. The world around her has changed many times, but her core self is still intact.

Ralaarth is a confident dragon. She has faith in a few key constants - herself, and her rider. The rest of the world may come and go as it will, but with Khinarae by her side, Ralaarth is as ready to face the future as she was the day she hatched.

She claims to be charming, but in her advanced age her charm is often conflated with wisdom. See, it isn't so much that Ralaarth is wise. She has a memory that only spans three days. But Khinarae remembers so much more than that, and she subconsciously pulls from her rider's experience. So her attempts to charm others into a certain course of action sound like wise advice from someone who knows.
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