Islands of Pern

Weyrlingmaster N'harn

Name: N'harn
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Rank/Craft: Weyrlingmaster
Residence: Ithaca Weyr

Description: N'harn is tall (6'4") with blond highlights in his light brown hair. His eyes are a light blue with an underlying hint of seriousness. Turns of dragonriding have made him muscular.

Personality: Though his all-around good looks tend to attract many females, they usually tend to pass him over for his more charming twin brother, N'lin. N'harn is a distinct opposite to N'lin. He is shy and has a deep compassion for others. The brownrider is very patient and kind, and is a far cry from the arrogant bronzerider who is his twin.

Background: Nytharn originally hailed from High Reaches Hold. He excelled at many things, and it was only a matter of time before he was apprenticed to a craft. His biggest decision in life was which craft to choose. Though he should have been his parents' pride and joy, that honor went to Nylin, though Nylin was a constant frustration with his pranks and idleness.

When Nytharn was 14 turns, his parents had not one but two sons "stolen" from them in the form of Search. Nytharn watched his brother impress a bronze whilst brown Nevvith chose him for a lifemate. Though N'harn knew full well that his family thought it a disgrace that N'lin had impressed a bronze and N'harn had impressed "only a brown," it mattered not to the brownrider. He loves his brown as only a dragonrider can, and counts himself blessed to have been chosen by Nevvith.

Not long after N'lin and his bronze Virath transferred to a fledgling Weyr, N'harn and Nevvith followed, finding that a bond between brothers is rivaled only by a bond between dragon and rider.

Though the love N'harn had for his brother was strong, the brownrider soon found he could no longer ignore the true, selfish nature of the brother he once thought he knew. N'harn kept to his own, finding happiness in the form of a weyrmate--a greenrider who flew in his wingsecond brother's wing.

One day, a woman arrived, claiming to have mothered N'harn's son, Kaih. She insisted that N'harn raise the boy, and N'harn agreed, though the cost of raising Kaih was the loss of his weyrmate. The little boy seemed to fill a missing void in N'harn's life, the void that was left when his weyrmate miscarried their baby.

N'harn's life was changed forever in a flurry of Thread. Nevvith took a bad scoring that would never fully heal, and Kaih was lost forever to a deceitful brother.

The brownrider couldn't face a lifetime of uselessness, a brother who had betrayed him, a son who could never be his own, and a weyrmate's dragon that his brown could never fly.

N'harn accepted a Weyrlingmaster position at a different weyr, and was content in that position until the day N'lin arrived in a flurry of arrogance, having cut all ties with his former Weyr and planning on starting anew with another. N'harn was furious. Why couldn't N'lin have picked a different Weyr to distroy, he asked himself.

The Weyrlingmaster's forgiving nature wouldn't allow him to stay angry at his brother forever, and tragedy in N'lin's life led N'harn to offer a comforting shoulder to lean on. When N'lin decided to run away from yet another Weyr, N'harn unhesitatingly followed, to Ithaca.

Dragon's Name: Nevvith
Color: Brown
Age: 14
Age of Rider at Impression: 14

Description: Nevvith is a very large brown and never fails to remind his rider that he is almost as big and much better than any bronze. He is a very dark brown with darker, almost black, patches on his underbelly, face and tail. Nevvith's left wing remains somewhat crooked from the threadscore that ended his career as a fighting dragon.

Personality: Nevvith is adjusting well to his new life. He handled the change much better than his lifemate, though sometimes the dragon is confused and hurt by N'harn's feelings of inadequacy.

Am I any less of a dragon because I cannot fly a green? he wonders.

The big brown enjoys working with "the little ones," both dragon and human alike. The weyrligmaster position was a salvation, to dragon and human alike. Whenever N'harn begins to feel down, his wise brown is quick to point out how important their job of training future Threadfighters is.

After all, Nevvith says wisely, We are just one dragonpair. We will train hundreds. Aren't a hundred dragons much better against Thread than one?

Last Updated: 7/25/2004