"The measure of an individual can be difficult to discern by actions alone."
BASICS
NAME:Thane of Brown Amonkirath
GENDER: Cis Male
PRONOUNS: He/Him/His
ORIENTATION: Heteromantic Heterosexual
BIRTHDATE: Late Summer 2728
AGE: 44 as of Early Fall 2772
LOCATION: High Reaches
OCCUPATION: Dragon Rider (Brown)
WING: Firestorm
APPEARANCE
EYES: Dark Grayish Green
HAIR: Salt and Pepper
HEIGHT AND BUILD: 6'9"|Compact
PLAY-BY: Keythe Farley
FULL APPEARANCE:
Thane is a very tall man, long of leg and lean but not really muscular, but very agile. He is active and often exercises to keep his body limber and in shape, as he gets older and its harder to recover from any injuries. His hair is salt and pepper colored and kept short and manageable and his skin is a ruddy tan. His eyes are a deep hazel green, looking almost brown in some light and he has a slight bit of very thin facial hair. His lips are full and his nose while prominent, isn't overbearing and taking up most of his face and his forehead shows a few wrinkles but over all, he seems to be aging gracefully.
PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY:
Thane is a very calm and collected older man that seems to always be deep in thought or reflexing on things around him. He likes to read and write when he can and often finds it soothing to do such to ease any stress he might be under. He can be a bit guarded with his emotions as he gets to know someone, not wishing to expose anything about his person that could be weaponized against him in some fashion.
He prefers to not be in the spotlight and stick to the shadows, watching events unfolding around him while his fellows go about their business. However, once someone befriends him, the mask of eternal calm is lifted and his raw emotions will come to the forefront, sometimes to an overwhelming degree that can make another uncomfortable.
Since the death of his weyrmate, he avoids romance in the thoughts that its too soon and he can't deal with the thought of losing another so close to him. His fear of loss also effects him in the way that he keeps friends and allies at arms length, not wanting to feel the pain of their loss as well. His crippling fear of losing things has made him a bit of a recluse and even perhaps some might perceive him as being on airs or think that he is too good to be seen with them. He has no way of knowing this for certain but can accept that perhaps he may come off that way.
He also knows that he was not the best role model or involved enough in his son's life and carries deep regrets of failure towards Kolyat for this. Their mending relationship is tentative at best but he is trying at the very least. Despite his tendency to voice things in a matter of fact way that might be too abrasive at times, he is a very kind and old soul and very loyal to those he considered friends. Perhaps someday.. he might even learn to love again.
His memory is remarkable and he finds he is very much able to remember a lot of things he experiences with fairly accurate clarity. However, this also extends to his memories of pain and the particularly bad ones sometimes can plague him enough that it disrupts his sleep. To combat this, he regularly meditates every morning and evening before sleep.
HISTORY
FAMILY:
Riorth of Bronze Kadjeth (Father) | Rider ; Deceased
Marianne of White Arashuth (Mother) | Rider ; 67
Moriah - (Sister) | -- ; 36
Rian - (Brother) | -- ; 34
Marth - (Brother) | -- ; 28
Irikah of Green Sihath - (Weyrmate)| Rider;Deceased
Kolyat - (Son) | Candidate; 18
SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Irikah (Deceased)
BIRTHPLACE: High Reaches Hold
HISTORY:
Thane was born to a pair of riders, the eldest of four children, though like other rider children, he was given to the creche to raise, along with his sister and two brothers as they came along. He was not particularly remarkable as a child, though rather quiet and intelligent, he seemed to catch onto learning fairly easily but was by no means a genius. His quiet nature made him few friends however but that was fine, he preferred his solitude.
As a teenager, he had decided that he wanted to be a rider and began to try to seek out what information about the life he could, even asking his parents on the rare occasion that he seen them. When he was of age, he became a candidate and that became his soul focus, there was little else other than meditations morning and before bed to soothe the nightmares he would have seemingly for no reason.
When he was 16, he met a girl named Irikah, whom like him, was a dragon candidate. The two hit it off almost immediately and Thane fell hard for her and she for him. However they had to keep their relationship strictly professional, as they were both young and candidates and the latter had to come first.
Both stood on the sands for years before Irikah managed to impress a green named Sihath and the pair were soon parted. Thane did not take this so well and withdrew into himself, growing quieter and more reclusive than he had been. But he still had his determination to find his dragon and impress and thus he pushed forward.
But as he turned 25, he felt that maybe this was never going to be a reality for him. So as he walked onto the sands for the final time, he knew today was the very last chance for him. The hatching had seen some magnificent dragons, his fellow candidates impressing the Blue Artoriath, and another impressing Nestieth. Thane stared at the remaining eggs and as a rather imposing brown hatched, he admired him for a moment... that was when said dragon made a line right for him.
" Your wait is over, Thane. Our star has now risen. "
To say Thane was both impressed and overwhelmed with feeling was an understatement, as he bent down to pick up the hatchling and take him for his first meal, all he could think of was how fortunate it was he impressed... and how this dragon was more than he could have ever hoped for. During their wherlinghood, the pair was not remarkable but they did have a synergy that was noticeable if one cared to observe them. When they graduated, Thane knew without a doubt where he wanted to be wing wise and thus joined the Firestorm Wing.
A few weeks after this, Thane ran into Irikah again and the pair rekindled their romance. A romantic night's reunion resulted in a son they named Kolyat, after Irikah's side of the family. While they became weyrmates, Thane's relationship with his wife and son was strained at best. His focus seemed to be solely on himself and being a rider. Often he would forget his child's birthday and his sister stepped in along with his brothers to try to soothe the boy's irritation that his father was never around.
But pain would visit upon Thane one evening after a particularly nasty threadfall that he received news that crushed him. Sihath had taken a direct hit from a clump of thread that stopped her heart and both she and Irikah had plummeted from the sky and neither survived. It was as if someone flipped a switch inside the man and shut off his emotions, as even as she was laid to rest, he did not shed a tear.
As he walked over to his now 10 year old son and tried to comfort him, the boy turned on him and blamed him for the loss of his mother and said he hoped he never seen him again. Thane, broken and now having lost his only connection to Irikah, walked away that day and no longer checked in on his son, going through the motions of appearing alright but never really being whole.
While change and politics raged around him, he paid it little mind, letting his work as a rider fill the void where there had once been happiness and light. It was after several years that his then 15 year old son decided to reach out to him again, stating his intention to be a rider like his late mother. Thane was worried that the same fate could befall him that had happened to his mother but he was in no position to stop the boy.
This choice however did give father and son something to speak over and slowly through the years, the relationship is starting to mend. Thane once again feels hope and a bit of optimistic view for the future, wondering what sort of dragon his son will impress and continues to perform his duties with Amonkirath at his side, ever keeping his watchful gaze on his son, even if the boy is still unsure what to think of him.
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