Name: Salene
Age: 26
Nameday: 3549.08.19
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: Pansexual
Weyr: High Reaches Weyr
Rider Rank: Junior Queenrider
Previous Rank/Craft: Apprentice Baker
Physical Description: On the shorter side of average hight, Salene looks taller thanks to her very long black hair. It complements her medium skin tone and violet eyes. She often wears her hair braided in a thick plat that she will adorn with flowers for festivities.
Personality: A generally upbeat person, Salene has a positive out look on life. She can be quite jubilant and joyful about even small things, celebrating all the victories in a day. This leads to her being very loquacious, talking happily, or nervously, about everything a little too much. Her tongue can run away with her and get her into corners she can’t get out of easily, if at all.

Salene doesn’t like deceiving people and it is far from her mind even when she is backed into a corner. She is artless and not conniving or crafty about what she is after. Combine that with her lack of desire to compete with anyone and she can be walked all over if she isn’t careful. Salene has no interest in trying to one up someone, or prove that she is better or even as good as anyone else. This leads to her not always doing her best because just good enough gets her by.

She can be quite impatient, both with herself and others. Dilly dallying is not acceptable and she would like people to get to the point. But that impatience leads to her cutting corners in her own work and being short with others. Even when she is short with others she is also generous and unselfish about most things. She will share how she is feeling, her material items, her counsel, and anything else that another might need, freely.
Positive Trait List Joyous, Generous, Artless
Negative Trait List Impatient, Loquacious, Noncompetitive
History: Salene was born in Lemos into a large extended family who served a variety of functions in the Hold. Everything from inn keeper to botanist. She spent a lot of time in the Inn, listening to stories as she grew up and helping out around the place. Her favorite place to be was the kitchen. Pastries were her passion from an early age.

When it came time to apprentice herself, the family gathered money and sent her off pursue that passion at the Baking Hall in Southern. There she planned to eventually specialize in desserts and cakes. She wasn’t the star pupil but was good and did well in her studies. She was just getting ready to walk the tables and become a Journeyman when Threadfall returned.

Lemos was hit hard in some ways with only spotty coverage from riders and her family was no exception. She didn’t respond well to the news of the deaths of some of those she had grown up and was at a loss of what to do. She wouldn’t be any help returning home. There was enough of the family left to handle that. But she also felt useless as a baker. As though there was more she should be doing to help.

Maybe it was that desire that drew the search dragon. Maybe it was something else. But she was searched shortly after the First Fall to High Reaches Weyr. Salene didn’t stand for many clutches before a dragon determined she was the one. It was a quick passionate affair of a Gold dragonet twining around Salene’s legs and proclaiming her bonding. Salenemine, you are mine. Now, will you feed your Dazmith?

Weyrling training flew by for the pair in a whirlwind of emotions and frantic learning. In no way had Salene been ready to become a Goldrider and she knew she had a lot of ground to cover to catch up. There was still so much special knowledge she needed on top of that.

With graduation only a short two turns ago, she is starting to find her rhythm at the Weyr.

Other:

DRAGON
Name: Dazmith
Age: 3
Color: Gold
Size: 83’
Physical Description: Dazmith is an elegant Gold who doesn’t know it. She can’t be called dainty by anyone’s definition but she is still not the roundest of the Golds.
Personality: With Dazmith what you see is what you get. She doesn’t hide who she is or try to deceive people. A genuine dragon through and through. She doesn’t pretend or create affectations to be coy or cute. Though she is rather abrupt. Curt and often brusque to the point that others perceive her as rude, she doesn’t realize that getting to the point can be off putting. It is just the most logical thing for her.

Still, Dazmith is a good-natured dragon who is generally amiable and thinks kindly of others. Even when it is hard to tell that she thinks that. She will indulge others in their whims freely and yield to her own desires. This is not always a good thing as her indulgent manner limits her good sense. Why can’t we just lounge at the beach for hours? What do you mean there is work to be done?

She focuses on what is real though. If it is pretend or feigned she won’t entertain it. With a practical streak that sometimes is at odds with her indulgent side, she expects people to see the world as it is. Accept what is around you for that is what you can affect and what affects you. Dazmith can be presumptuous about her rights. She clearly has the right to interfere in another’s life, or offer counsel (which often comes across as dictating), or any other manner of items that are overstepping. She doesn’t mean any harm and it will help the other person, right?

QUEST INFO
Why do you want this character? As I was kicking around the idea of a goldrider in my head she sprung fully formed into my consciousness.
What do you love most about this character, if anything? That is a hard one. The abrupt loving nature of Dazmith.
Anything else? <3