Persona Profile: Alixana

Writer: Danielle

Name: Alixana
Age: 71
Birthday: m5 d14
Rank: Wingrider, Arête Wing
Location: Dragonsfall Weyr
Job: DragonHealer
Craft: Dragonhealer
Craft Rank: Master

Physical Description of Persona:
When beauty fades, the memory of beauty remains. So it was with
Alixana, who aged gracefully and has retained her looks despite the
effects of time and the Healer's life. She has always been small, a
tiny woman but there is steel hidden under her seemingly delicate
mein. Her hair, once gold, now silvered, is worn in a braided style
long out of fashion in the South- not that this matters at all to the
aristocratic woman. Her eyes are fierce and startlingly blue, like
gemstones that glitter with cold light.

Emotional Description of Persona:
Her word is as law in both the Infirmary or the classroom, and woe unto the human or dragon that dares defy it. She is a professional, and takes great pride in her abilities and knowledge. She is more than willing to teach what she knows, but the student had better heed her words. There is, as well, a deep compassion in her, a kindness, and her strict attention to detail and procedures stems from that- a genuine care and knowledge that lives can and do rest in her capable hands.

History of Persona:
Alixana was born the middle child of five born to lord and lady Holder of a minor Hold, but still the Blood runs in her family's veins. Her family has a small, dilute claim to several of the Major Holds of the South, a fact that she was costantly reminded of as a child.

And as a child, she came to her Craft early, before even being of age to apprentice, always taking care of the felines and canines that wandered her way hurt or ill. Even other children. She was constantly tending to scraped knees, or hurt wrists, playing at being a Healer.

Not, exactly, the correct behavior for a girl of her status. And once, when she was fourteen turns, she was discovered covered in the blood of a canine who'd gotten into a fight, trying to staunch his awful wounds, her Mother forbid her from even spending time outside of the
Women's quarters of the Hold.

Doomed to the endless round of sewing, she became very, very good at working with needle and thread. Not that any of the garments she made were anything other than ordinary, her embroidery was very fine. A skill that would help her later in life, although in an unforseen way.

A Searchrider from Far Island Weyr found her in her fifteenth turn, and brought her to the Weyr- and the freedom to learn a Craft. Immediately she reported to the infirmary and began convincing the Healers there to teach her everything they knew. Which they inevitably did.

Alixana stood for three clutches without success. Her fourth time
Standing, she vowed, would be her last, and if she didn't Impress,
well, she'd turn wholly to her Healing- already by then holding Senior Apprentice status- and due to attain Journeyman status within another Turn.

At seventeen, she Impressed Viridianth, and as soon as she was able, began her training as a Dragonhealer.

At age 35 she was given her Master's knots in Dragonhealing. She then began to study the human body as well- with many forays of study into herbalism and even beasthealing, managing to juggle the responsibilities of the Infirmary with study and with the duties of a dragonrider in a fighting wing.

At 21, she took a Weyrmate, a fellow Healer. She bore one child by him. Their daughter also became a dragonrider, and later bore a son, a result of one of her flights.

When Alixana's grandson was five turns old, his parents, and
grandfather, were taken by the plague, leaving young Etridian in the care of his grandmother, who had to foster him at the weyr. However, as soon as Etridian was old enough to express interest in HealerCraft, well, he soon became her apprentice.

Family and Friends
E'dian, 31, Wingrider, Alpine Wing, Dragonsfall Weyr (Grandson)

Dragon's Name: Viridianth
Dragon's Age: 54
Dragon's Hatching Date: m5 d28
Dragon's Colour: Green
Description of Dragon:
Viridianth was always a pale green and smaller than the majority of the greens. She, like her rider, has an air of authority about her, knowing full well that when Alixana needs her to help control another wounded dragon, she must be up to the task.

Approved: January 30th 2006
Last updated: January 29th 2006

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Persona Profile: Alixana