Post by Para on Nov 8, 2011 18:53:59 GMT -5
Name: K’tani (Kamatani) of Gray Verineph
Other Names: none
Age: 19 (mid spring)
Gender female
Sexuality: bisexual
Rank: Junior Phoenix, Wingleader
Place of Birth: Wellton, Baziala
Hometown: Wellton
Place of Bonding Bazialan Eyrie
Rider Appearance: K’tani is tall about 5’ 9”, and, in her opinion, quite annoyingly thin, with all her weight being dedicated to still relatively small muscles. Her hair is black, and kept short enough to both fit easily under a helmet and never get in the way or require excess care, by the simple fact that whenever it gets too long, K’tani simply cuts it off with a knife, giving it a very ragged look most of the time. She has gray eyes, tan skin, and several small scars acquired from weapons training.
Distinguishing Features: K’tani’s most visible scar is a horizontal slash beneath her right eye, starting beside her nose and curving around past her cheekbone, acquired when she slipped on a lost stone during weapons practice and, in trying to catch her balance, failed to move in time from the knife her opponent had. Her opponent, one of the boys who later became a blue rider in the same hatching as she did, was quite upset, while K’tani wanted to continue practice, on the idea that a koxi would hardly leave her alone because her face got scratched. Her opponent won with the argument that her simourv would probably kill the koxi violently and drag her away from the fight regardless of what she or any koxi thought.
Rider Personality: Most of the time K’tani is calm, hard working, and if not a genius, intelligent enough to understand most things she could need to. She is not particularly social, and is generally happiest when alone with her simourv or only a few people, preferably close friends or family. When dealing with more people, she will often fall back on formality to make the situation easier to deal with; if formality is impossible or inappropriate, such as at a party, K’tani will generally try to spend the minimal amount of time possible before leaving.
K’tani is particularly disturbed by situations that are outside of her control, and surprises due to believing them to remove some of her control over a situation. Sickness and flights in particular disturb her, and she will go to great lengths to avoid being sick or being around a flight, and tries to avoid being controlled even by Verineph's flights. She hasn’t yet realized that Verineph will be due to fly soon, largely due to willfull ignorance.
Rider Likes: when things happen as expected, organization, simplicity, and music, especially when she can play
Rider Dislikes: unexpected surprises or last minute changes, interruptions, danger, especially when it’s someone she’s close to, and flights
Simourv Name: Verineph
Simourv Color:Gray Verineph (777788)
Simourv Age: 6 (late summer)
Simourv Parentage: Semph x Kriteph
Simourv Appearance: Verineph has reached her full height, and recently, seems to have reached her full bulk as well. Even so, she is lightly built for a gray, being noticeably shorter than most grays (only about 28 feet at the shoulder), but the same length as Northern grays (about 67 feet long). Her streamlined build is emphasized by her colors; a light, soft gray, accented by yellow-orange lines down her neck, body, and tail, and rusted brown feathers in her wings, only small spots on the front of her wings but turning into similar line-like patches of feathers at the back. Her head and underbelly are pure gray, only marred by a few small scars from koxi battles, most of which are hidden beneath feathers.
Simourv Distinguishing Features: The only visible scar is just above her right eye, starting outside and angling down toward her eye, ending in a slightly larger spot where she managed to jerk her head back out of the koxi’s reach before it could injure the eye itself.
Simourv Personality: Verineph was initially K’tani’s near opposite; playful, curious, and easily excited by anything new. However, as she grew, she learned of K’tani’s dislike of the new, and the dangers that new things could bring to the Eyrie and, later, to the townspeople she was meant to guard. As a result, while still interested by anything new, she generally remembers to treat new things with caution, and will inform her rider and get her opinion (most often a ‘no’) before investigating. She is, however, still more excitable and rebellious than K’tani; she is fascinated by the Northern simourv, and in particular the possibility of tawnies clutching, as no tawny in Baziala has done so since well before her own hatching. She greatly wants to befriend Altaph, in the hopes that Altaph could help her learn how this strange and wondrous event occurred, but K’tani is resisting, believing that the strange Northern riders cannot be the source of anything good, and especially not anything that causes good change. So far Verineph has mostly obeyed K’tani in this, but believes her rider is being silly, and is considering befriending Altaph anyway.
Verineph is quite energetic, friendly and caring about nearly everyone and everything; she even worried for koxi for a time, before realizing how much they hurt people if left alone. She is particularly enthusiastic about people and peoples’ behavior, and much more likely than most simourv to speak to people other than her rider, or simourv outside of her rank. Primarily she speaks to gray, black, red, and tawny simourv, as the blues, greens and rainbows are sometimes too nervous or confused to answer, but she will still question them on occasion. Despite her spider encounter and knowledge of koxi, she still assumes that anything new is probably good until proven otherwise, which rarely happens.
Simourv Likes: people, change, and excitement; she particularly delights in humans’ birthday parties, and when not attempting to physically wander into them, usually spends the party asking her rider, the birthday person, or other simourv why simourvs’ birthdays aren’t celebrated in similar ways.
Simourv Dislikes: being bored, feeling guilty (usually caused when she accidentally thinks that she wouldn’t be bored if koxi attacked), and spiders (they don’t taste good)
Winglet Class: Velas
Rider’s Family:
Tenvi - father, dead, would be 46
Yuri - mother, dead, would be 43
Tanessa - older sister, dead, would be 24
Lenani - older sister, 22, married
Romir - older brother, dead, would be 20
Maeni - older sister, dead, would be 19
Senma - younger brother, 15
Vanel - younger brother, 14
Pets: none
History:
Kamatani was born in a small oasis town barely into the desert in the Southeast of Baziala. The town, while far enough into the desert to protect it from most breeds of koxi, still had to deal with the desert koxi, so the town was guarded by a combination of kamrov and their riders, whom the town hired, and its citizens, who all learned the basics of fighting as soon as they were able. The kamrov guards were never enough to protect every inhabitant of the town all the time, but were enough for the town and most inhabitants to survive. Being too far into the desert to farm, the town kept small, communal herds that families would take turns taking out a day’s walk from the town to a small, half-sheltered outpost where the animals could graze.
The town’s main source of income, however, was the production of the few luxuries often found on Baziala. Mines for stone, gems, and precious metals were all nearby, some close enough for covered stone tunnels to be built to them, some mined by other towns that traded with Kamatani’s. Plants for spices, seasonings, wood, and incense grew nearby as well, and they imported fabric, dyes, and the best craftsmen they could. The desert’s climate was beneficial for production of nearly all materials, and the village was filled with jewelers, tailors, smiths, potters, and all other kinds of artisans.
Kamatani was the fifth of her parents’ seven children. Her parents were jewelry makers, specializing in elegant silver work, with the occasional accent of gold or gems. Kamatani and her siblings learned how to make jewelry from her parents, and the values of various metals and gems. They also helped with the shop, and her oldest sister would sometimes buy metals and gems when her parents were busy.
When Kamatani was twelve her family went to watch the town’s herds at the outpost, leaving behind Kamatani to watch her two younger brothers and take care of the house, and her older sister Lenani to take care of any business that may occur. While watching the herds her family was attacked by a pair of forest koxi that had wandered into the edge of the desert, killing her mother and older siblings Romir and Maeni, and injuring her father. While bringing her father, two of the guards who had also been non-lethally injured, and the remaining herds back to the town they were attacked by a group of desert koxi, which killed one of the injured guards, two uninjured ones, several of the animals in the herd, and her sister Tanessa. Her father died a few weeks later from an infection that got into his wounds, leaving Kamatani, her sister Lenani, and her brothers Senma and Vanel.
Lenani took over their parents’ jewelry business, with help from some of the other jewelry makers in town, and from Kamatani and their brothers. However, the decreased number and quality of the pieces they produced made it difficult for the four to survive, and while Kamatani had acquired decent skill at jewelry making for her age, she and her brother Senma both lacked the talent that Lenani and Vanel had inherited. As a result, Kamatani and Senma gave up making jewelry and instead spent as much time as possible with the guard members Kamatani knew from trips to watch the herds, working on their ability to fight, and about four months after her father died, Kamatani joined a trade caravan heading North, and worked her way to the Eyrie. Senma joined the town guards, as was expected by everyone at that point, while Lenani married and Lenani, Vanel, and Lenani’s husband run the family’s jewelry business. Kamatani spent most a year at the Eyrie as a candidate before bonding to Gray Verineph shortly before her fourteenth birthday.
Verineph was excitable and energetic even by the standard of young simourv, and often made K’tani think she would go insane with her adventures, questions, and energy; she never seemed to sleep when other simourv her age did, and instead questioned things that K’tani thought should not be, such as why rainbows couldn’t fly grays (but everyone would be so much more colorful if they did!) or koxi had to be killed. Somewhat fortunately, when Verineph was about three months old she encountered one of the large forest spiders near the feeding pens, and despite K’tani’s worried arguments, ate it. The spider tasted bad and made her slightly ill, and the experience made her much more willing to listen to K’tani’s warnings. She will still ignore K’tani at times when she feels K’tani is worrying for no reason, such as when she wants to talk to other simourvs’ riders or to simourv outside her rank, but gives K’tani’s opinion much more weight than she used to.
K’tani and Verineph have both adjusted as they grew together, though Verineph has become much calmer while K’tani’s dislike of anything new has only decreased slightly. Verineph has also become used to talking her rider through new situations, so K’tani is much more able to deal with surprises even if she still hates them, and will turn to Verineph’s near-endless optimism for security when worried.
K’tani and Verineph made it through training without any significant incidents beyond a scolding from C’eli and Semph when Verineph attempted to ask Semph why she couldn't be flown by a rainbow. Fortunately for K’tani, the lecture was gentler than it would have been, due to Verineph’s age and K’tani’s obvious fear and apologies. After training, the pair were assigned to a patrol, with K’tani expected to soon take up a second position on a wing, in preparation for eventually becoming a wing leader, which she achieved a year later.
Verineph's first flight came nearly the same day as her third birthday, startling K'tani as much as anyone. She was caught by black Catelph, and the resulting clutch was judged small for a gray, but quite decent for a first clutch. Catelph's rider Z'tam, however, was in his forties, and had always treated K'tani as a child, and she hated him as a result, and in particular for the surprise party he organized in an attempt to gain her favor when he realized she disliked him. K'tani refused to speak to Z'tam after the flight, and glared at anyone who tried to ask her why. During Verineph's second flight K'tani hid, and while she has a decent relationship with Z'ryd, whose black Rinph caught Verineph on that flight to produce the Andromeda clutch, she fully intends to hide for Verineph's future flights as well.
K'tani's desire for order and support of the current hierarchy has led to her being trained as C'elia's second and eventual replacement since Verineph fledged, despite the presence of S'ri and Moraneph, a phoenix pair several years older than K'tani and Verineph. Moraneph was a younger sister of Semph, hatched only a few years before C'elia and Semph became the senior pair. For a while the training was subtle, mainly in the form of C'elia encouraging K'tani to advance through the ranks quickly and learn about the Eyrie. However, about five months before the Spiderland riders joined the Bazialan Eyrie, S'ri died due to a combined fever and complications with birth, and Moraneph disappeared into the wild. K'tani and Verineph are now the second phoenix pair, which quite pleases C'elia, who now openly favors the pair. Verineph hasn't quite yet comprehended these expectations, though the vague idea she has understood has excited her at the idea of being able to better help people. K'tani is more concerned, both at the scale of responsibility, and the probably expectations of her having a close relationship with the senior Commander, but does her best to ignore those concerns and focus on learning as much as she can from C'elia and her current responsibilities.
Verineph's third flight is approaching, and while Verineph's instincts are beginning to stir, they aren't strong yet, and K'tani is still unaware.
Other Names: none
Age: 19 (mid spring)
Gender female
Sexuality: bisexual
Rank: Junior Phoenix, Wingleader
Place of Birth: Wellton, Baziala
Hometown: Wellton
Place of Bonding Bazialan Eyrie
Rider Appearance: K’tani is tall about 5’ 9”, and, in her opinion, quite annoyingly thin, with all her weight being dedicated to still relatively small muscles. Her hair is black, and kept short enough to both fit easily under a helmet and never get in the way or require excess care, by the simple fact that whenever it gets too long, K’tani simply cuts it off with a knife, giving it a very ragged look most of the time. She has gray eyes, tan skin, and several small scars acquired from weapons training.
Distinguishing Features: K’tani’s most visible scar is a horizontal slash beneath her right eye, starting beside her nose and curving around past her cheekbone, acquired when she slipped on a lost stone during weapons practice and, in trying to catch her balance, failed to move in time from the knife her opponent had. Her opponent, one of the boys who later became a blue rider in the same hatching as she did, was quite upset, while K’tani wanted to continue practice, on the idea that a koxi would hardly leave her alone because her face got scratched. Her opponent won with the argument that her simourv would probably kill the koxi violently and drag her away from the fight regardless of what she or any koxi thought.
Rider Personality: Most of the time K’tani is calm, hard working, and if not a genius, intelligent enough to understand most things she could need to. She is not particularly social, and is generally happiest when alone with her simourv or only a few people, preferably close friends or family. When dealing with more people, she will often fall back on formality to make the situation easier to deal with; if formality is impossible or inappropriate, such as at a party, K’tani will generally try to spend the minimal amount of time possible before leaving.
K’tani is particularly disturbed by situations that are outside of her control, and surprises due to believing them to remove some of her control over a situation. Sickness and flights in particular disturb her, and she will go to great lengths to avoid being sick or being around a flight, and tries to avoid being controlled even by Verineph's flights. She hasn’t yet realized that Verineph will be due to fly soon, largely due to willfull ignorance.
Rider Likes: when things happen as expected, organization, simplicity, and music, especially when she can play
Rider Dislikes: unexpected surprises or last minute changes, interruptions, danger, especially when it’s someone she’s close to, and flights
Simourv Name: Verineph
Simourv Color:Gray Verineph (777788)
Simourv Age: 6 (late summer)
Simourv Parentage: Semph x Kriteph
Simourv Appearance: Verineph has reached her full height, and recently, seems to have reached her full bulk as well. Even so, she is lightly built for a gray, being noticeably shorter than most grays (only about 28 feet at the shoulder), but the same length as Northern grays (about 67 feet long). Her streamlined build is emphasized by her colors; a light, soft gray, accented by yellow-orange lines down her neck, body, and tail, and rusted brown feathers in her wings, only small spots on the front of her wings but turning into similar line-like patches of feathers at the back. Her head and underbelly are pure gray, only marred by a few small scars from koxi battles, most of which are hidden beneath feathers.
Simourv Distinguishing Features: The only visible scar is just above her right eye, starting outside and angling down toward her eye, ending in a slightly larger spot where she managed to jerk her head back out of the koxi’s reach before it could injure the eye itself.
Simourv Personality: Verineph was initially K’tani’s near opposite; playful, curious, and easily excited by anything new. However, as she grew, she learned of K’tani’s dislike of the new, and the dangers that new things could bring to the Eyrie and, later, to the townspeople she was meant to guard. As a result, while still interested by anything new, she generally remembers to treat new things with caution, and will inform her rider and get her opinion (most often a ‘no’) before investigating. She is, however, still more excitable and rebellious than K’tani; she is fascinated by the Northern simourv, and in particular the possibility of tawnies clutching, as no tawny in Baziala has done so since well before her own hatching. She greatly wants to befriend Altaph, in the hopes that Altaph could help her learn how this strange and wondrous event occurred, but K’tani is resisting, believing that the strange Northern riders cannot be the source of anything good, and especially not anything that causes good change. So far Verineph has mostly obeyed K’tani in this, but believes her rider is being silly, and is considering befriending Altaph anyway.
Verineph is quite energetic, friendly and caring about nearly everyone and everything; she even worried for koxi for a time, before realizing how much they hurt people if left alone. She is particularly enthusiastic about people and peoples’ behavior, and much more likely than most simourv to speak to people other than her rider, or simourv outside of her rank. Primarily she speaks to gray, black, red, and tawny simourv, as the blues, greens and rainbows are sometimes too nervous or confused to answer, but she will still question them on occasion. Despite her spider encounter and knowledge of koxi, she still assumes that anything new is probably good until proven otherwise, which rarely happens.
Simourv Likes: people, change, and excitement; she particularly delights in humans’ birthday parties, and when not attempting to physically wander into them, usually spends the party asking her rider, the birthday person, or other simourv why simourvs’ birthdays aren’t celebrated in similar ways.
Simourv Dislikes: being bored, feeling guilty (usually caused when she accidentally thinks that she wouldn’t be bored if koxi attacked), and spiders (they don’t taste good)
Winglet Class: Velas
Rider’s Family:
Tenvi - father, dead, would be 46
Yuri - mother, dead, would be 43
Tanessa - older sister, dead, would be 24
Lenani - older sister, 22, married
Romir - older brother, dead, would be 20
Maeni - older sister, dead, would be 19
Senma - younger brother, 15
Vanel - younger brother, 14
Pets: none
History:
Kamatani was born in a small oasis town barely into the desert in the Southeast of Baziala. The town, while far enough into the desert to protect it from most breeds of koxi, still had to deal with the desert koxi, so the town was guarded by a combination of kamrov and their riders, whom the town hired, and its citizens, who all learned the basics of fighting as soon as they were able. The kamrov guards were never enough to protect every inhabitant of the town all the time, but were enough for the town and most inhabitants to survive. Being too far into the desert to farm, the town kept small, communal herds that families would take turns taking out a day’s walk from the town to a small, half-sheltered outpost where the animals could graze.
The town’s main source of income, however, was the production of the few luxuries often found on Baziala. Mines for stone, gems, and precious metals were all nearby, some close enough for covered stone tunnels to be built to them, some mined by other towns that traded with Kamatani’s. Plants for spices, seasonings, wood, and incense grew nearby as well, and they imported fabric, dyes, and the best craftsmen they could. The desert’s climate was beneficial for production of nearly all materials, and the village was filled with jewelers, tailors, smiths, potters, and all other kinds of artisans.
Kamatani was the fifth of her parents’ seven children. Her parents were jewelry makers, specializing in elegant silver work, with the occasional accent of gold or gems. Kamatani and her siblings learned how to make jewelry from her parents, and the values of various metals and gems. They also helped with the shop, and her oldest sister would sometimes buy metals and gems when her parents were busy.
When Kamatani was twelve her family went to watch the town’s herds at the outpost, leaving behind Kamatani to watch her two younger brothers and take care of the house, and her older sister Lenani to take care of any business that may occur. While watching the herds her family was attacked by a pair of forest koxi that had wandered into the edge of the desert, killing her mother and older siblings Romir and Maeni, and injuring her father. While bringing her father, two of the guards who had also been non-lethally injured, and the remaining herds back to the town they were attacked by a group of desert koxi, which killed one of the injured guards, two uninjured ones, several of the animals in the herd, and her sister Tanessa. Her father died a few weeks later from an infection that got into his wounds, leaving Kamatani, her sister Lenani, and her brothers Senma and Vanel.
Lenani took over their parents’ jewelry business, with help from some of the other jewelry makers in town, and from Kamatani and their brothers. However, the decreased number and quality of the pieces they produced made it difficult for the four to survive, and while Kamatani had acquired decent skill at jewelry making for her age, she and her brother Senma both lacked the talent that Lenani and Vanel had inherited. As a result, Kamatani and Senma gave up making jewelry and instead spent as much time as possible with the guard members Kamatani knew from trips to watch the herds, working on their ability to fight, and about four months after her father died, Kamatani joined a trade caravan heading North, and worked her way to the Eyrie. Senma joined the town guards, as was expected by everyone at that point, while Lenani married and Lenani, Vanel, and Lenani’s husband run the family’s jewelry business. Kamatani spent most a year at the Eyrie as a candidate before bonding to Gray Verineph shortly before her fourteenth birthday.
Verineph was excitable and energetic even by the standard of young simourv, and often made K’tani think she would go insane with her adventures, questions, and energy; she never seemed to sleep when other simourv her age did, and instead questioned things that K’tani thought should not be, such as why rainbows couldn’t fly grays (but everyone would be so much more colorful if they did!) or koxi had to be killed. Somewhat fortunately, when Verineph was about three months old she encountered one of the large forest spiders near the feeding pens, and despite K’tani’s worried arguments, ate it. The spider tasted bad and made her slightly ill, and the experience made her much more willing to listen to K’tani’s warnings. She will still ignore K’tani at times when she feels K’tani is worrying for no reason, such as when she wants to talk to other simourvs’ riders or to simourv outside her rank, but gives K’tani’s opinion much more weight than she used to.
K’tani and Verineph have both adjusted as they grew together, though Verineph has become much calmer while K’tani’s dislike of anything new has only decreased slightly. Verineph has also become used to talking her rider through new situations, so K’tani is much more able to deal with surprises even if she still hates them, and will turn to Verineph’s near-endless optimism for security when worried.
K’tani and Verineph made it through training without any significant incidents beyond a scolding from C’eli and Semph when Verineph attempted to ask Semph why she couldn't be flown by a rainbow. Fortunately for K’tani, the lecture was gentler than it would have been, due to Verineph’s age and K’tani’s obvious fear and apologies. After training, the pair were assigned to a patrol, with K’tani expected to soon take up a second position on a wing, in preparation for eventually becoming a wing leader, which she achieved a year later.
Verineph's first flight came nearly the same day as her third birthday, startling K'tani as much as anyone. She was caught by black Catelph, and the resulting clutch was judged small for a gray, but quite decent for a first clutch. Catelph's rider Z'tam, however, was in his forties, and had always treated K'tani as a child, and she hated him as a result, and in particular for the surprise party he organized in an attempt to gain her favor when he realized she disliked him. K'tani refused to speak to Z'tam after the flight, and glared at anyone who tried to ask her why. During Verineph's second flight K'tani hid, and while she has a decent relationship with Z'ryd, whose black Rinph caught Verineph on that flight to produce the Andromeda clutch, she fully intends to hide for Verineph's future flights as well.
K'tani's desire for order and support of the current hierarchy has led to her being trained as C'elia's second and eventual replacement since Verineph fledged, despite the presence of S'ri and Moraneph, a phoenix pair several years older than K'tani and Verineph. Moraneph was a younger sister of Semph, hatched only a few years before C'elia and Semph became the senior pair. For a while the training was subtle, mainly in the form of C'elia encouraging K'tani to advance through the ranks quickly and learn about the Eyrie. However, about five months before the Spiderland riders joined the Bazialan Eyrie, S'ri died due to a combined fever and complications with birth, and Moraneph disappeared into the wild. K'tani and Verineph are now the second phoenix pair, which quite pleases C'elia, who now openly favors the pair. Verineph hasn't quite yet comprehended these expectations, though the vague idea she has understood has excited her at the idea of being able to better help people. K'tani is more concerned, both at the scale of responsibility, and the probably expectations of her having a close relationship with the senior Commander, but does her best to ignore those concerns and focus on learning as much as she can from C'elia and her current responsibilities.
Verineph's third flight is approaching, and while Verineph's instincts are beginning to stir, they aren't strong yet, and K'tani is still unaware.
