Post by WeyrSparrow on Apr 21, 2009 20:04:04 GMT -5
At Mavros Weyr, your character can be a dragonrider or a craftsman, a scholar or a child. Mavros is a relaxed canon weyr-hold based on the classic Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. Located around a volcanic caldera, the settlement is composed of banished dragonriders and the people they fight to protect from the alien menace called Thread. When you create a character at Mavros, you enter a world where the fate of an island balances on a knife's edge, and where flying on dragon wings is not an idle dream, but a deadly necessity.
We departed from Tidewalk Hold on the first day of the eighth month. It was high summer, and the seas were calm. The conflict between myself and Senior Weyrwoman Kalena had escalated, and violence between our factions had broken out. In the interest of stopping further bloodshed it was determined that the more junior queen and her supporters should quit the weyr for good...
That meant Asurath and I. With a contingent of thirty-three riders and twenty weyrlings, as well as one hundred eight-six assorted holders and weyrfolk, we chose to form a new weyrhold on one of the lower Western Ring Islands rather than disperse amongst the other weyrs. Mavros was the one we chose.
So, while the weyrfolk and other holders were brought to Mavros on dragonback one by one, along with the supplies we had managed to accumulate, the fisherfolk set sail with their families and a number of riders accompanying them.
Already settled into the natural caves of Mavros Bay, we awaited their arrival with impatience. Candidate Master S’ten, thinking to give the weyrlings flight practice, decided to take them out to meet the fleet halfway. They departed, and the rest of us waited, even as the weather became stormy, and lightning struck the highest rock on Mavros. Then, suddenly, blue Nesporth blinked from between, bearing his severely injured rider and one desperate message which made all our blood run cold.
Thread.
No one had anticipated the early onset of the 10th pass.
