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Candidate Mhari
Xari mistresskaira@gmail.com

 

Common Knowledge: It is known that she’s a decent healer, and not a bad worker in general. Most people tend to assume she’s childish as she looks a little child-like, but they’re disabused of the notion if they ever see her tending to an injury in the infirmary.

Character Name:
Mhari

Birthdate (age):
05.20.3303 (17)

Gender:
Female

Birthplace:
Southern Weyr
Current Location:
Last Hope Weyr

Family:
Father: Mahir/deceased (3316 at 36, Earthquake)/Healer
Mother: Xanna/deceased (3307 at 26, Plague)/Healer
Step-mother: Odina/deceased (3316 at 26, Earthquake)/Healer
Siblings:
(Full-blooded)
Yelem /deceased (3301 at 3, Plague)
Quentin/ 21/Last Hope Weyr/Journeyman Woodworker
Xanos /deceased (3301 at 1, Plague)
Rohana /deceased (3301 at <1, Plague)
Twins: Stephen /18/Last Hope Weyr/ Journeyman Woodworker
Xeref /stillborn
Olane /16/Last Hope Weyr/Senior apprentice Weaver
Zophine /stillborn
Xanna /deceased (3307 at <1, Plague)

(Half-siblings)
Winola /deceased (3310 at <1, Plague)
Zubrette /9/Last Hope Weyr/Junior apprentice Healer
Saretta/deceased (3316 at 4, Earthquake)
Xander/deceased (3316 at 3, Earthquake)
Sebastian/ deceased (3316 at 2, Earthquake)
Yeoman/deceased (3316 at 1, Earthquake)



Physical Description:
Mhari is of average height with longish mousey-brown hair that she generally wears in a plait down her back. Her skin has a moderate tan, she has lived in the southern continent all her life after all. She has deep sapphire eyes, framed by long dark eyelashes and thin eyebrows. She has a very innocent look to her face that’s almost child-like, this is enhanced by the fact that she’s very thin, she actually looks underweight and thus delicate, breakable. Don’t let her size fool you though, Mhari is far from breakable, she’s a healer and has to have the strength to pull bones back into place, and she does. Mhari is very fit, she goes for a run every morning, believing that being fit is helpful in fighting off disease. Mhari has a single almost perfectly straight scar down her left arm from shoulder to elbow.


Personality:
Mhari watched her mother and many of her siblings succumb to the plague as a child, because of this she has almost a phobia of becoming ill herself. She noticed even as a young child that the fitter people didn’t succumb to disease quite as quickly so she resolved to get fit as soon as possible and stay that way. Mhari is constantly setting herself goals and tries to be the best that she can be at everything and anything she does. She is quite restrained, always thinking through any action she might take before implementing it, she can make quick decisions when she needs to but she prefers not to. This constant planning means that most of the other children avoided her when she was younger and as a result she became a fairly solitary girl, though she’s talkative enough she won’t ‘intrude’ unless invited. Due to her retiring nature Mhari is quite a lonely girl, she’s close enough to her siblings but it isn’t the close friendship that Mhari longs for as those closest to her in age, Olane, has vastly different interests, and Zubrette is 8 turns younger than Mhari and doesn’t understand her elder half-sister.


History:
Mhari was born the seventh child and the first daughter to survive her first year. The plague ran rife through the world Mhari was born to, her parents having moved to Southern weyr to aid the healers at the weyr. Mhari’s own family already knew the pain of death by plague as three of her elder siblings had died of it two years before she was born. Mhari’s parents, healers Mahir and Xanna were determined to have as many children as possible in the hopes that the next generation wouldn’t have a bad start… As a result Mhari was hardly the only young child in her household, the youngest of her elder siblings was less than a full turn her elder. And just over a year after her birth she gained a sister.

Not long before Mhari’s fourth birthday, her mother having given birth to one stillborn child and another living child, the plague struck again. Mhari’s mother and the newborn girl named for her mother Xanna both fell victim to the plague. Mhari’s mother, Xanna, implored her husband as she lay dying, to marry another of their colleges a girl they had both been fond of, Odina. She implored both not to leave her remaining children without a mother. Mhari’s elder brothers both railed at their parent’s craft demanding why their father hadn’t been able to save their mother. But there was no answer for the boys, so they turned their attention away from their parents craft deciding that they would not follow their parents into the healer craft. Mhari however chose the opposite path, delving deeper into the knowledge she’d gleaned already.

Two turns after the death of Xanna, Mahir and Odina obeyed her dying request and got married. Xanna’s four living children all accepted the marriage with almost no fuss, Odina had been counted almost as a part of the family long before their mother had died. Odina promptly bore a daughter, Winola. Unfortunately there was another bout of the plague going around at the time and Winola died. At about this time Mhari became an unofficial healer apprentice at age 10.

The next year Odina bore another daughter and named her Zubrette. At this time it was becoming clear that the plague was winding down with fewer and fewer cases appearing. The weyr healers breathed a collected sigh of relief and started training their apprentices to deal with other ailments that weren’t plague related. Many of the youngsters who had proved themselves during the time of the plague were promoted, something few people had been able to think of doing due to either lack of energy or time.

Odina seemed to have caught Xanna’s habit of bearing one child per year and continued to have children, bearing one daughter and three sons in quick succession while Mhari finally became an official healer apprentice. At about this time Mahir decided that his brood was getting too big to stay comfortably at the weyr so he sent his eldest children to scout the surrounding area to find somewhere to settle outside the weyr itself but within walking distance. So Quentin, Stephen, Mhari, Olane and Zubrette went on a ‘journey’ to find somewhere suitable.

Late that afternoon the children set up a small camp where they decided to spend the night, as it was getting late and they’d thought they’d spotted firelizards and thought to search for the nest. The girls set up a smallish campsite while the boys went looking. They returned quite late reporting that there was no sign of eggs, not even egg-shells. The children decided to stay the night where they were, as they didn’t want to get lost in the dark. It was lucky for the children that they did as early morning brought earth-shakes that rattled Pern. The children returned to find the weyr mostly destroyed, their parents and younger siblings crushed. Almost unnoticed in the shock of the shakes Mhari was struck by a falling branch carving a single almost perfectly straight scar down her left arm from shoulder to elbow.

The children came with the remaining dragonriders and the other lower cavern folk who had survived the shakes to form Last Hope Weyr. There Quentin and Stephen put their woodworking skills to the test to help with the building, Mhari and little Zubrette helped the living healers while Olane helped out the weavers whenever she could and anyone else who needed a spare set of hands. And so the children joined the weyr and some even stand for impression whenever they can, just like all the other weyrbrats . . .



CRAFTER INFORMATION
Crafter Rank:
Senior Journeyman
Craft:
Healer
Specialty:
Turns in Craft:
7 (she started learning before she was officially apprenticed, officially she’s been in her craft for only 5 turns.)



LOWER CAVERNS INFORMATION
Caverns Rank: Worker
Other Rank: see crafter info.