Character Name: Marrinuk

Birthdate (age): 05.18.3325 (25)

Gender: Male

Birthplace: Last Hope Weyr

Current Location: The Various Weyrs, and Mihrung Plains

Family: Father - Drudge Marrell at Last Hope Weyr (50 turns)

Mother - Headwoman Lallinuka at Last Hope Weyr (43 turns)

Sister - Senior Journeyman Beastcrafter Naharra at Last Hope Weyr (24 turns)

Sister - Drudge Mianarrah at Last Hope Hold (17 turns)


Physical Description: Marrinuk is rather big, standing 6'3" and weighing 210lbs. He's bulky, with both muscle and a bit of fat. He has dark brown eyes with matching hair that he keeps cropped in a traditional rider's crop. He has a sharp nose, though it isn't overly long. His jaw is rather well defined, but his cheek bones are a little more hidden under flesh. He has a relatively normal forhead as well, though he appears to have two triangles on either side of his forhead where he has what appears to be a receeding hairline. In reality, Marrinuk's hair has always looked like that. His hands aren't exactly slim, but they're not chunky either. They are rather well proportioned for his body. Marrinuk has scars on his face and body from various fights he gotten in and other times he's been forced to fix himself. However, even those scars aren't so large or noticable. Though Marrinuk is definately not amazingly handsome, he isn't unattractive either.

Abilities, Strengths, Weaknesses: Marrinuk has learned to fight with daggers rather well, well enough to keep himself alive that is. His big bulk has given him strength that aids him. However, the bulk also means he's usually not quite as quick as his opponent. He is usually forced to try to overpower his opponent and block his movements. In other words he's forced to fight physically using a very different technique than he does when he plans things mentally.

He also has a cunning wit, to match Boramth's. He can make people agree with him, argue a point to where any opposition usually seems silly. He's quick on his toes, mentally anyway, able to cover one lie with another and actually have it sound rather plausable. He's a plotter and a planner, someone who will work out details before he acts, which usually means he can handle suprises that come.

He has, unfortunately, a blind hatered of the dragonriders in the Weyrs. He has discovered how the people at Mihrung behave and how they terrorize the people, but he would prefer that over what he's considers the terror of an unchecked Weyr. If the Mihrung weren't there, he decided, the Weyr's dragonriders would go unchecked, taking power as they would and doing all sorts of horrible things he just can't think of. It has blinded him to the truth of things. He judges all dragonriders with the same anger, making it impossible for him to ever have a relationship with one of them.


Personality: Marrinuk is a very angry person, though while he's at the Weyrs he tries not to show it. After all, an angry rider would get too much attention for a spy. However, that doesn't negate the fact that he's angry. He blames much of what happened to Pern on the dragonriders of the Weyr. They helped bring about the plague, and have as of yet been unable to repopulate the Northern Continent. He hates them with a passion.

On the other side of Marrinuk is a rather caring, helpful young man. He doesn't like to see any of his allies injured or betrayed. He, unlike Boramth, is always working to better the lives of the Mihrung people, as opposed to himself. Whenever he's seen another allied Mihrung Plainsman in danger he was never hesitated to aid him. He would give a starving ally the shirt off his back and would probably throw in a couple marks as well.

As he joined the Mihrung he felt less and less for people who refused to fight against what he considered a corrupt Last Hope Weyr. He's willing to take from Last Hope Hold, willing to kill even. His compassion has become fiercely directed only towards those who are from the Mihrung.

On average he behaves rather average. He's got a calm exterior and tends to smile a lot. After all, he's supposed to be a spy, and a spy should make people feel comfortable. He's found that a small smile usually does that.


History: Marrinuk was born the first child to a drudge and the Headwoman at Last Hope Weyr, Marrell and Lallinuka. He grew up in the very shakey environment as a drudge at Last Hope in those times. The dragonriders were dwindling, and most of the people were quite distrustful of them. Although both of Marrinuk's parents lived at the Weyr, and Lallinuka is the Headwoman, neither of them are very trusting of those people who rode dragons. After all, they vaguely remembered the plague that killed so many. So Marrinuk was embued with a distrust for the very people his parents worked for.

This constant teaching of distrust eventually turned into hatered and Marrinuk constantly thought of escape. He might like his two younger sisters and his parents, but he hated the dragonriders even more. So as a young child, of around 10 turns, Marrinuk could be found constantly plotting at how to run away. Of course, he thought he'd not only have to escape his parents, but that he'd have to escape the clutches of the evil dragonriders as well.

It was with great happiness that Marrinuk discovered, at the age of 13 turns, he was in fact going to leave after all. Well, he was sort of leaving. He would no longer, in his mind, be under the constant threat of the dragonriders. Instead, Marrinuk would be appentied as a Healer. He spent two turns as an apprentice healer, concentrating mostly on mindhealing. Something the Terrans would have called therapy. He rather liked it, and was going to stick with it. However, the dramatic increase in the number of dragonriders in the Weyr was becoming too much for Marrinuk. Although the change had occurred earlier in his childhood, it was at the age of 15 that he decided he truely had to get away from the Weyr.

With this hatered of dragonriders in his mind, he left Last Hope Weyr, and didn't even wish to stop at any of the Holds that were under it's protection. He continued travelling until he reached the Mihrung Plains. Though there were obviously dragonriders there, he did not fear nor hate them. He had heard, as a child, of how the Mihrung and the Weyrs were enemies, and so he figured these dragonriders must be the right kind to be with. He joined a Clan of bandits there, and did rather well. He was slowly gaining the favor of his Clan Leader as someone who would do as he was told, yet someone who would often have ideas. He planned to continue as a bandit, working up the hierarchy until he reached Clan Leader, or was chosen for a dragon and possibley reached Third or Second.

These plans all changed when, at 18 turns, he found a turn old blue wild dragon wandering in the area surrounding the Mihrung Plains. This dragon's name was Boramth, and after Marrinuk gave Boramth some bits of meat he had brought along for himself, and a bit of conversation, he Impressed. Now, this Impression is not as close as a regular rider and his dragon, but it's still pretty close. Although Marrinuk had a hatered for dragonriders, it had nothing at all to do with dragons themselves. Finding a wild dragon was, in fact, quite amazing. He had no qualms with his Impression, especially because he knew it would help him rise in rank.

Marrinuk brought Boramth back to the Mihrung Plains and presented him to his Clan Leader. While the Clan Leader truely wished to Impress Boramth himself, it was clear that he was already Impressed to Marrinuk. So it was with great annoyance that Marrinuk's Clan Leader brought him and Boramth to their Third. From there they went to the Second, and from there to Yeesha. It was decided that he was to spy on the Last Hope Weyr as soon as Boramth was mature and ready to take on such a responsibility. And so for four more turns Marrinuk stayed at the Mihrung Plains, training with Boramth and any other immature dragons and riders they had there.

At the age of 21 turns, Marrinuk went to Last Hope Weyr, the place of his birth and the source of so much hatered, as a spy for the Mihrung Plains. Marrinuk saw Weyrwoman and managed to explain his sudden Impression of Boramth to her. He said that he was in fact the Apprentice Healer who had run off. He had found this egg, evidently discarded by the Mihrung, and had Impressed. After a few turns on his own he explained that he decided to come back here, to his "true home." He suggested he and Boramth act as a kind of in-between for the three Weyrs, making it so he wasn't tied down to one or the other. He could go from New Telgar to Wrath to Last Hope and deliver messages easily. He found that the Weyrwoman of Last Hope accepted his idea and thus began his work as a spy.

He can often be found at any of the three Weyrs as he isn't really tied down to any one Weyr. He's made his own little weyr in a cave away from the Weyrs. This gives him unfeathered access to the Mihrung Plains to report his information. He rather enjoys his work, and is hoping to continue to work toward a better position in the Mihrung hierarchy.


DRAGONRIDER INFORMATION


Dragonrider Rank: Rider of a Wild Dragon/Spy for Mihrung

Honorific: M'nuk (Only used during Threadfall or when he's at a Weyr)

Dragon Name: Boramth

Hatch Location: Unknown, Somewhere near the Mihrung Plains

Age: 8

Color: Blue

Physical Description: Boramth is 42 meters from nose to tail, he has a wingspan of 50 meters and a shoulder height of 6 meters. He is about as big as a small brown. This means he isn't quite as agile in the air as the other blues, but he doesn't mind. He is the color of the Southern sky at midday on a cloudless day, or there abouts. If one were to look closely, though, one would notice that he is not the same shade of blue everywhere. While he is mostly this sky blue, he has splotches, lines, and even his whole back left leg that are different shades of blue. However they aren't more than a couple shades lighter or darker.

Personality: Though Boramth is a blue, he is a wild blue, and as such tends to behave a little more independently than a regular blue would. He obeys his rider nearly all the time, and any gold that manages to completely overtake him mentally, but no one else other then that. Boramth doesn't truely respect the hierarchy of Mihrung, or any other Weyr. Marrinuk is often forced to affirm whatever order Boramth might be given. He is haughty, often looking down on the other blues. They are, after all, tamed and leashed. Or at least that's how he thinks of them. He'll boss other dragons around, and talk back to any color. Again this is excluding a gold who could mentally overtake him, and anyone Boramth has told him not to talk back to.

However, beyond that haughty, defient blue attitude lies a rather intellegent dragon. He will often develop original ideas and plans. Boramth has made up for his inability to maneuvre with his mental ability. As his personality might suggest, he's got the intellegence of a brown more than a blue. If he had a mind to, Boramth could probably help settle problems that might arise between other riders, except that he'd rather be the cause of them.

When it comes to saving himself and his rider he can be the most intellegent dragon around. He has developed a very keen ability for lieing, even to other dragons. He's devious and spies on Last Hope Weyr just as much as Marrinuk does. Saving or protecting anyone other than himself and his rider is quite a bit less of a priority. He wouldn't ever risk himself too greatly just to save someone else.


CRAFTER INFORMATION

Crafter Rank: Apprentice


Craft: Healer

Specialty: Mindhealing

Turns in Craft: 2