Persona Profile: X'riel

Writer: Danielle

Name: X'riel
Age: 25
Birthday: m11 d18
Rank: Junior Weyrling
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Craft: Tailor
Craft Rank: Senior Apprentice

Physical Description of Persona:
There is something to be said for blending in. Unfortunately, Xariel tries to avoid that as much as possible. Even if he intended to blend in, it wouldn't work. His dark black curls were the envy of many a lass, falling down to chin-length, long enough to pull back if need be. He liked them loose though, where they could fall artfuly into his eyes. Which were a bright green, and also the envy of many. But he was built slight and delicate, he was pretty as a child. Now, he'd managed to put on some muscle with young adulthood. It only made him more handsome.

Emotional Description of Persona:
Xariel is, in a word, flamboyant. He gets noticed by everyone, and he likes it that way. He is friendly and cheerful, with a talent for flirting. Xariel wears his heart on his sleeve, making friends quickly and easily. He is always willing to lend a helping hand or a shoulder to cry on, and he will protect those he cares about as fiercely as a dragon will protect her clutch.

History of Persona:
Xariel's family is from a small hold attached to Emerald Falls Hold. His father and grandfather were weavers, his extended family raising the caprines and ovines whose wool made up the cloth his family wove into tapestries and bolts that were sent to the Hold itself.

Xariel never quite fit in with the humble, monotonous lifestyle of the hold. He was too quick, too bright to spend his days turning wool into thread, and thread into cloth. He was good enough at it, but he had something that didn't fit out in the middle of nowhere. Ambition.

Oftn he would accompany his father on their regular trips to Emerald Falls to deliver their bolts of cloth to the tailors, who then turned it into garments of varying styles and uses. Xariel would wander among the workrooms where the tailors took flat cloth and transformed it into wonderful creations. It inspired him.

He began to sketch, teaching himself to draw the stylized human figure, then he taught himself to sew. Finally, when he was old enough, his family sent him to apprentice with the Tailor craft, where he finally put his ideas to better use.

Xariel was an odd child even at the crafthall. His ideas tended to be strange and sometimes impractical, which was frustrating to his Masters. Even so, he was good at visualizing garments, drafting the patterns for them, and could even construct them passably well, which seemed to balance out his fantastical designs.

It was almost a relief, though, to all involved, when the Searchdragon had landed, and had named him to be taken away to the Weyr.

Family and Friends
Variel, 49, Weaver (Father)
Xeria, 45, Crafter's wife (Mother)
Varea, 33, None (Sister)
Arien, 32, Weaver (Brother)
Veria, 23, None (Sister)
Eniel, 21, Weaver (Brother)

Dragon's Name: Arryeth
Dragon's Age: 9
Dragon's Hatching Date: m13 d14
Dragon's Colour: Blue
Description of Dragon:
To be added.

Approved: October 8th 2006
Last updated: October 8th 2006

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Persona Profile: X'riel