J'ahn of Massath

Playername:  Aria
Playeremail: harperaria@yahoo.com
PlayerIMs: Ewynholt23

Charname: J'ahn
Age: 60 (7.02)
Rank: Bronzerider, Honshu Weyrhold

Description: Tall (6'3''), and with a lean build, all muscle. A thin face, tanned from turns in the sun and rather wrinkled, from which surprisingly sharp pale blue eyes peek out. His hair, once nearly black, is now mostly silver, salt-and-peppered, and kept in a straight runner-tail. While commonly referred to as the "grizzled old man", he actually still stands straight despite his age, and remains active.

Personality: While his has a sense of humor, J'ahn is not known for being jovial. He's opinionated, forceful, and determined. A pragmatic, and somewhat traditionalist, J'ahn isn't biggoted against women, he just sees their role in life as including breeding, on top of being whatever they choose to be. Also, he has become known as rather odd in his old years (and more than a bit annoying) for his insistence that they ought to be training the youngers as if thread *were* coming back.

Gender/Sexual Preference: Male, heterosexual

History: Jeahn was the son of beastcrafters at a minor cot hold, and one of several children. A very traditional holding, Jeahn was raised with fairly conservative views. It was thought Jeahn would join the Beastcraft, until it was discovered that he had an excellent memory, and a decent voice, and decided to Apprentice at the Harper hall. Jeahn was drawn to the old learning ballads, especially the ones about dragonriders, though he couldn't have said why. They called to him, and he had them all down cold within the first turn. At fourteen, Jeahn was very close to Journeyman, and allowed to travel down to Honshu Weyrhold for a time to do some performing - and to study under a Master who was there. It was then that he was truly struck by the impressiveness of Dragonkind and the culture surrounding them, having had little exposure outside the ballads. Suddenly, they all made even more sense. Almost impulsively, he decided to take at least one chance at standing - the experience would make great song-fodder if nothing else - and applied.

He was accepted, and at that very first hatching, just after he turned 15, impressed bronze Massath. J'ahn took quite well to being a dragonrider. Though it struck him as a bit odd that much of what he'd learned in the old teaching ballads was no longer practiced. He and Massath drove themselves to the limits, and proved themselves early and consistently as being the top of their class. Almost as soon as they were out of training, J'ahn made Wingsecond. Within two turns he was a Wingleader, a position he continued to hold for turns to come. His wing was always known for having some of the most complex maneuvers in drill competitions. His ability to produce his own offspring - let alone Massath's mating record- was also well known. Almost every turn or two J'ahn managed to get some greenrider pregnant. Often, depending on Massath's favorite at the time, it might be a repeating Greenrider. Then, once Massath's attention turned elsewhere, someone else would get J'ahn's attentions for flights.

While quite fond of flights, J'ahn rarely sought women's beds otherwise, though he did have two relationships with women who were not dragonriders over the course of his lifetime. Always the skeptic, J'ahn was never convinced that thread was absolutely gone. Oh it might be, but they couldn't know that for certain until enough time had passed that it was clear a new pass *would not* start. Seeing was believing, and if they didn't train up the youngesters to fight it in the next generation, there could be problems. Few folks listen to him however and brush it off as an old man getting crochety in his old age.

Dragon

Name: Massath
Color: Bronze
Age: 46

Description: Massath is a large -though not abnormally so- bronze, with a rich, dark burnished color that looks a little like tarnished bronze because of his age.

Personality: Jovial and quite social. As driven as J'ahn to be the best they can be, and yearns as much as his does for something *Real* to do besides drill.