Owner: Jamie

Name: Skylar

Age: 21

Sex: female/heterosexual

Description:  Skylar has brown-ish hair that, when hit just right by light, has a red hue to it.  She keeps it styled fairly simply -- braided on Threadfalls days and worn down on others.  Her eyes are a deep blue, set in a pale face (she hasn't had much opportunity to tan, being from the North).  She's rather medium in height (around 5'7") and possesses a slender figure.  Her wardrobe consists mostly of good, workable clothing and a dress or two.

Personality:  Often pleasant, though she does have a temper that will rise for small things.  She has very little patience for annoyances. She has no problem with telling people what she thinks, and enjoys a good debate -- when she wins. 

History:  Born and raised at High Reaches as the daughter of a brownrider and a greenrider, Skylar grew up around dragons and knew that was all she ever wanted to do.  She was Searched at age 13, and failed to Impress from two clutches -- she almost gave up and apprenticed to a dragonhealer.  Her parents, however, convinced her to stand for another clutch, maintaining that "If you've been Searched, it's almost certain that you'll Impress /sometime/..." Their suspicions were confirmed when Skylar did Impress in the next clutch -- she found herself bonded to gold Arianth at the age of 18. 
Weyrling training was difficult for Skylar, due to her tendency to speak her mind.  She learned well, and was a favorite of the Weyrlingmasters -- which put in her in disfavor of many other weyrlings.  When the time came to draw lots to see who went South from her weyrling class, a few of the others figured out how to fix it so she would invariably go South -- and she did.  What they hadn't counted on was her being happy about it as well.  She spoke a few choice words with a few of her fellow weyrlings, then packed her things up and left for Ginealar Weyr.

Abilities and weaknesses:  Since she paid close attention in weyrling classes, she's prepared for nearly any Threadfall incident.  She and Arianth are rather agile in the air, despite Arianth's large size.  Skylar's major downfall is her mouth and habit of speaking her mind, and when forced to speak to large numbers of people, she often gets shy and nervous, almost to the point of running away.

Rank: goldrider

Dragon name:  Arianth

Age:  3 Turns

Colour: gold

Description:  Arianth is uniformly solid, bright gold, save for a touch of silvered dappling on her flanks and tail.  She's of average size for a gold, with a large wingspan and a long neck.

Personality:  A compassionate gold who often rights the wrongs done by her rider's straightforwardness.  She finds little need to be anything but pleasant, and sometimes broods over her rider's inability to connect with people.

Abilities and weaknesses:  Agile for her size, but finds it difficult to turn in a small space.  Any other time but mating flights, her endurance is a bit below average -- she has to rest for a day or two between long Threadfalls or she strains herself badly.