Post by Lilacdew on Nov 1, 2010 17:36:54 GMT -5
Harper, tell me of the road...
Username: Lilacdew
Character Number: 4th
Name: Taliene
Age: 17
Birth Season: Autumn
Gender: Female
Location: Bivium
Rank: Journeywoman
Craft: Harper
That leads beyond this hold...
Appearance:
Taliene is the sort that dresses for the occasion and enjoys looking good, but doesn't put great stock into having the most expensive things at her side. Her belief is only that if you feel good will you be brave enough to face the day to come. With that type of mentality, she approaches each day with things in mind for what she has to accomplish. Often found in something comfortable, her choices of clothing range from breeches and tunics with the well worn boots, to the elegant dresses that she has to wear for when its time to put on a performance at a Gather.
Roughly 5'9" in height, Taliene exhibits a quiet, inner grace that could only be learned from the gawkiness of a person who had been all limbs as a child. Moving about fluidly, Tali is the type that truly tries to take things calmly and in humorous lights, often smiling with her gentle gaze and quirky soft lips. Her face is oval-shaped, her once pale skin is tan from years of working outside. Her fingers are lined with calluses from instruments or covered in parts of plants she had just dabbled with, and she often can be seen with a quill stuck right into the base of her ponytail, in case she has to write a quick note in the pad that always seems to be attached at her hip.
Her hair itself is kept long, often braided or in a ponytail for the sake of simplicity. When loose, it falls to her waist in dark brown, wavy tresses. Her hair is sometimes unmanageable if she doesn't stay on top of it. Her eyes are dark as well, a rich indigo that can sometimes seem as though she's staring through the person before her, rather than at them.
That wends its way around the hill...
Personality:Taliene is one of those bright, cheerful types that tends to keep track of what's going around her. She smiles easily, laughs easier, and while she may complain about something, she'll usually get right on it with a good natured attitude. A song, a witty remark, or a sympathetic glance, it's all natural to Tali. She's a nurturing type that tends to prefer to look after people whether its through music or healing. It's a passion, and she tends to continue with it best she can.
Tali tends to contemplate her tasks or daydream in her spare hours. She tries figure out the details of what she must do next before the time comes to really worry about it. Truly harper trained, she is an accomplished wordsmith, and her songs and interactions with people reflect such. In truth, she really couldn't care less what the Weyrs and holds wanted. There are songs to be made, people to learn from and perhaps a lot of fun times to be had as well.
Does it go farther on until...
History: Taliene grew up in a small beasthold off Keroon on the mainland. The daughter of Journeyman Harper Dashun and his wife, a Journeyman healer named Ria, the young girl was the child that could be both charming and irritable. Basically, she was the type of child that asked questions about anything in her path, and found the answers if nobody had them.
With her parents being of two different trades, Taliene picked up on the basics of both pretty quickly. Showing the signs of being a prodigy in one field or another, her parents were soon fit with the conundrum of what to do with their growing daughter. In the meantime, Taliene was learning about animals, stitches and every song she could get her hands on. Soon enough, she was playing a basic guitar and learning songs by rote.
In time though, it proved that her parents were having a difficult time keeping up with the child. She was learning fast, and with the birth of the set of twins, she was hard to really give all their time to like they did in the past. Tali, in turn, helped care for the children of the hold, even though she was incredibly young herself, and by the age of ten, she was accomplished in what they could teach.
During the time her parents were debating, Taliene was out doing what she normally did in her free time away from her siblings and family. Exploring and learning about the world, with a touch of daydreaming about what sort of hero she could be. A dragonrider! A fantastic harper! Or maybe a coggler who could make the most amazing things in the world! It was while she was thinking on this that she stumbled onto the nearby beach and happened across a clutch of firelizard eggs. She was thrilled, after she realized she almost crushed them and got over the fright she had given herself. Taliene immediately began to run back when the famous hatching hum began to resound about the area.
Awestruck and too late to run back to the Hold, she sat out of the way and stared as the eggs began to hatch. In the excitement, however, one of the eggs tumbled out of the nest! Quickly, Tali impulsively reached out to catch it and the little firelizard hatched directly in her hands. Panicked, Taliene did the first thing she could think of to do when the thoughts of hunger hit her mind. She pulled out her sandwich from her pocket, and gave it to the greedy little bronze. The bronze quickly ate it up, and that was that. Tali had unintentionally impressed a bronze firelizard, whom she named Treble.
It was fortunate that Tali was a nurturing sort, because when she made it home with the firelizard, there was quite a bit of panic and loud voices. When she got home, people objected to her having the firelizard, to which the firelizard promptly responded to with raucous cries when Taliene began to feel distressed. Resigned, her parents helped her care for it. They realized that Taliene was quickly learning responsibility because of it.
As the lizard grew, so did Tali's dedication to her studies and her talent to play instruments. Her parents decided to send her to the Harper Crafthall to become a Harper in full.
Tali progressed quickly in the Harper Crafthall, utilizing what her parents taught her to the fullest. She was quickly named a journeywoman in her own right, a scant year after she arrived, ranking in one of the fastest promotions the guildhall had seen before. Arriving at the age of 13, Tali was made a journeywoman at the age of 14. Labeled as a prodigy, she soon displayed strengths in songwriting and people relations, though her ability to craft instruments was something of a joke. She spent a year after her promotion freshening up on some of the healer's craft as her mother had always stressed and took a bit more time to see the world and experience the people in it to learn about them. She became well known as she traveled because of how catchy her songs were and how she could patiently calm even the angriest of people.
The fights between the dragons and the people? She couldn't care less at all about it. Dragons were needed, people were needed, and it was her attitude towards this that helped to keep her mind open. With this in mind, the Harpers asked Tali to take on the post of Bivium's Harper, as they'd need someone who wouldn't look down their noses at the dragons as she attempted to handle the situation between the Weyr and Holds.
Tali readily agreed and she was placed as the Weyr's Harper, far away from home and yet eagerly waiting to once again prove herself.
It ends in sunset gold?
Pets: Bronze Firelizard
[/center]Pet Name: Treble
Pet Appearance: Treble is a striking bronze firelizard. His back is brightly hued with copper tones that gradually darken to a brown along the edges of his wings. Muscular, this firelizard has bright eyes and is clearly filled with energy from the tip of his long tail to the smooth line of his nose. He shines with health, and has the strength often found in the strong and spirited.
Pet Personality: Treble is incredibly loyal and protective of his mistress, Taliene. When she's in trouble, he is there. He possess a slightly playful nature, but often when she falls asleep at a table, you'll find him nearby to guard her. If she feels threatened, he rushes to the forefront without a thought for his well being...something that sometimes gets Taliene in trouble. Overall, the firelizard is very dedicated, and can often be found singing to Taliene's songs when she plays.
Blue Firelizard
Pet Name: Mezzo
Pet Appearance: A little bit of a handful, this newly hatched firelizard possesses a slender snout and thin tail. His blue hide is an incredibly rare iceblue, devoid of the normal richness of hue found in a majority of other blue firelizards. Overtones of darker, almost dreamy hues of purple and blue can be seen when the lizard moves about, giving the illusion that his colors shift about.
Pet Personality: Mezzo is inquisitive by nature, and sometimes shy. While a partner to Treble's staunch defense of Taliene, Mezzo often will keep quiet, and while flighty and adoring of attention as is the nature of his kind, he can often be found trying to keep out of site when things get a little more tense. A delight for Taliene, he can often be found in the middle of things, caught between the high and low road whether it's for songs that his mistress may sing, or just on whether or not to jump in or hide. This little lizard is just sometimes confused about things in general. Who can blame him? He's only a hatchling at the moment anyways.
