Persona Profile: Daynar (Inactive)

Writer: Clancey

Name: Daynar
Age: 63
Birthday: m3 d25
Rank: Master Crafter
Location: Elsewhere on Pern
Craft: Smith
Craft Rank: Master
Speciality: Metalsmith

Awards
Crayon Awards: Favorite Villain (November 2006)

Physical Description of Persona:
A tall, imposing man, Daynar has dark hair with some gray in among the strands of thick black waves. His eyes are a smoky brown, full of private intensity, and often, disdain. His arms and legs are as thick as treetrunks with a slight tendency around his waist to go to fat, but he won't let it. He rides runners often to keep in shape. His clothes are working clothes, made of a finer material than most, but still rough and tumble. For Gathers and Hatchings, he'll wear his finest, but otherwise, he refuses. His hands are scarred from years of metalworking, and his right cheek has a thin, white scar from a piece of stray glass that caught him.

Emotional Description of Persona:
He is imposing in personality as well as appearance; his attitudes are antique and he is firmly sure that women do not belong in Crafts of any kind, even Baking. He let his now deceased wife, Otriana, cook and clean, and supervise the Hall drudges, but he believed that was her place and did not allow her to do anything 'unwomanly' like reading unless it was directly related to the running of the Hall. He does, however, love his work and also his apprentices. In fact, they are the only folk to whom he publicly shows warmth. When he is working with metal or glass, he finds a sense of peace and fulfillment and ..rightness.. and he enjoys teaching the all boy apprentices to be just like him, in all ways. Those who live and study in his Hall find him honest and fair, if sometimes overly strict, but they do like him. Those who do not know him say he is an overbearing, arrogant Crafter who thinks women are trash. That is certainly not the case, but he does believe in a certain.. order.. to society.

Of late, Daynar has begun to soften. When his wife, Otriana, was murdered, he grieved for the appropriate time, then remarried the sister of Lord Holder Ishek - Miralani - and she appears to be changing the gruff Hallmaster.

History of Persona:
Daynar was born Amethyst Cliff Hold to a minor Holder and his wife. He was fostered at Emerald Falls and q uickly became adapted to their beliefs on women and women's rights. He holds to those beliefs yet today. He excelled at his chosen craft, chosen because even when he was small, he liked to take things apart and see how they worked. It was sometimes a woman, usually a drudge, that might find herself under that same scrutiny, as if he was wondering what made them work the way they did - irrational and clingy.

When he was 12, he apprenticed at the Smithhall at Garnet Valley, and he has stayed there every since. His life has been pretty typical for a man of the Southern continent, and his wife was found for him from a 'suitable' family when he turned 18 and walked the tables to Journeyman. They married when he was 20, and she was 17. One turn later she was pregnant with their first son, and there followed 3 more at relatively regular intervals. To Daynar's dismay, their last child was a girl-child, but she has turned out as pretty as her mother, so he is pleased in that, at least.

He has stayed away from the Weyrs, believing them to be 'seeds of discontent' for the women and 'their proper place', and will swear to any that asks that he has no son that Impressed a blue dragon at River Bluff Weyr. He did not even want the boy to go, except that he was convinced he would Impress a bronze. When the color - and the boy's true nature - was revealed by a cracked shell, Daynar disowned his son D'trian, for the son of a passing Harper. There are still rumors that he beat Otriana senseless that night, but these have never been proven.

He made Sr Journeyman at 30, and Master at last at 40. He virtually ignored the boys until they grew old enough to apprentice, and this gave him an edge on his own skills. Once the boys were 12, he took them almost completely under his wing and began to teach them everything - and everything there was - he knew. They boys were all soon minature copies of Daynar. He left the running of the house and the raising of Otrina to his former wife, and now Miralani has taken her in hand.

Of his four boys and one girl, two of the boys follow him in Smithing, one is a Harper journeyman, one is a dragonrider with a blue dragon, whom Daynar refuses to acknowledge, and the girl he keeps away from 'other influences' (like the Weyr) and is currently trying to find a good match for her, as a good father should.

He is finding himself happier than he has any right to be in his second marriage, and between Miralani's ambitions and his traditional views, the Smithhall is more prosperous than ever.

Family and Friends
D'trian, 27, Wingrider, Rapids Wing, Dolphin Cove Weyr (disowned son)
Otrina, 24, Hall Resident, Elsewhere on Pern (daughter)
Miralani, 38, Hall Resident, Elsewhere on Pern (wife)
Otriana, 10, Deceased (fformer wife)
Dayn, 41, Sr. Jr. Glassmith (son)
Narot, 35, Sr. Jr. Smith (son)
Anar, 31, Sr. Jr. Harper (son)

Pets

Scrap, Canine: aged 15, born m11 d19
Scrap is a large, rather aggressive canine with brown fur. His ears and face have a black mask, and one hind leg and his tail have black streaks. Daynar takes him when he goes for runner rides and has also trained him to fight. Scrap is loyal to his owner, and in addition to this apprentices, is one of the few creatures that Daynar is openly warm toward.

Approved: August 14th 2005
Last updated: March 11th 2016

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