Persona Rules

[stardragon]

All persona's must be approved before you begin RP play. You may not use any character out of the books, or an obvious alteration of one. Made-ups Only!

Use this format for Persona information, you may add more but you must have these: (the Bold parts are required for PNPC's but may be only a few words.)

Name:
Age:
Gender:
Rank: (include craft rank for dragonriders/candidates if they have one)
Parents/Siblings: (include ranks if they have them, and where they are if it's not StarFall Weyr)
Appearance:
Personality:

When applicable-
Pets: (these must be approved, gold and bronze Flits are responsibilities and will not be allowed lightly. Cats are called felines, dogs are canines.)

Keep in mind when creating names that the Pernese tend to use alterations/combinations of the parents names to name their children. And they are not your usual Earth type names but may be similar. They are almost always over 5 letters long. And they may NOT be a perversion of some other authors character names, not for humans or dragons. i.e no F'rodo and Aragorneth or anything equally cheesy and ridiculous.

For Candidates: (Candidates must be at least 12 and not over 20)
Dragon Color Options: (What you will accept for this charrie 1-3 Options please)
Dragon Name Options: (2-3 please and if they are color specific please note that)
Dragon Personality:

I will NOT guarantee any specific color to anyone but will guarantee if it's not on your list you won't Impress to it. This may mean you won't Impress for a while however since my Hatchings are always held with an aspect of randomness to be fair.

For Crafters:
If you'd like a Master rank ask, I'll consider it.
Average ages for each rank level-
Apprentice- 10-20
Journeyman- 20-30
Master- 30+
Hall Master- 35+
Craft Master- 40+
Crafts that have halls at the Weyr or StarFall Hold-
Healers, Starcraft, Herdbeast craft, Runnerbeast craft, Farmcraft, Winecraft.
Craft positions that will be needed but do not have a hall- Tailor, Weaver, Cook, Seacraft, Dolphineering and many more.

For Weyrlings:

Male dragonriders take an honorific at Impression, sometimes it's given you by the dragonet sometimes you choose it yourself. An honorific almost always is the 1st letter and the last 2-3 letters of the charries full name. An exaggerated ex. Cariminelan would be C'an or C'lan. Something already short like Fred would generally just get an ' put in to make it F'red.
Females usually do not take an honorific but they may if they want, this is more likely to happen with female blueriders.

Now for Dragon creation rules:

ALL dragon names end in -th. No perversions of other authors characters, period.

There are only 5 colors of dragon- Gold, Bronze, Brown, Blue, Green. Gold and Green are female, only Golds lay eggs.
Women may Impress Gold, Green and Blue (Female Blueriders are usually homosexual or bisexual).
Men may Impress Bronze, Brown, Blue and Green. (Male Blueriders are usually bisexual or homosexual, male Greenriders are almost always bisexual or homosexual.)

Only 3-4 adult Golds will be allowed at any given time in this weyr, and they will be awarded based on merit.

Bronzes are earned by merit, unproven literates must play a 'lesser' color or other position to prove you can handle a bronze.

Average sizes at full growth- (Though I'm still not sure what is truly right we'll go with these measurements for now 2/08/06)
Golds- 38-43 feet nose to tail tip
Bronzes- 35-38 feet
Browns- 30-35 feet
Blues- 25-30 feet
Greens- 20-25 feet

Use the following for full grown dragons-

Dragon Name:
Color:
Description: (include length at full growth)
Personality:

More guidelines and such will be added as they are needed.

[stardragon]

A note for everyones descriptions of dragons. Dragons on Pern are only in shades of one color. They can vary greatly within that color but nothing that is not of their color. The only exception to this is that as dragons get 'old' their muzzle scales start to get paler and paler, it's called greying though it's not exactly grey in color. They eventually pale down over their whole body, and in theory could even end up almost white if they live long enough.

Here's a couple examples of colorations- Fayrenth is a pure shading of pale white-ish gold. Another gold I know of is what's called antique gold with paler headknobs and wingsails. I know of a blue that is described as navy blue so dark he's almost black except for splotches across his belly of a lighter more vibrant blue.