Name: Hyasin
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Craft/Rank: Journeyman Harper
History: Hyasin is a southern native born near Monaco Bay Weyr. He always considered the South his home, even during his long turns at the Harper Hall in the North. He never had much aspiration to be a dragonrider, preferring to keep his feet firmly planted on the ground. As a child his parents took him north by ship to visit relatives at Fort Hold. It was his first taste of travel and while he loved seeing new places, he was too motion sick to enjoy the journey. From then until he was to apprentice, he would pester the traders that came to visit about the places they'd been and people they'd seen.

His fear of heights and bouts of motion sickness would prevent him from being Searched, as well as from pursuing any of the standard traveling careers. So at the age of 13 he turned to the Harper Hall. He had a suitable enough mind and already was developing a natural affinity with young children. It was easy for him to train as a teacher for the young and sooner than he realized he was walking the tables as a Journeyman and awaiting an assignment. Not long after he got his knots he was informed of his new assignment. He was being sent to Trine weyr as a teacher for the rider's creche.

Through this time and the decade afterwards Hyasin had enjoyed a quiet personal life. He'd had various flings and romantic encounters but never anything long term. He never could understand why things didn't work out in his favor but as he got older he grew comfortable with his bachelor lifestyle, while he still sought love and being single, he came to accept that things would eventually end.

When Hyasin was about 34 a new student joined his class, he was a young boy, only 4 turns old but sharp as a dragon's claw. Hyasin was impressed by the speed at which the kid seemed to soak up knowledge. Though over the next few turns he managed to develop quite the reckless streak. Hyasin found himself with an almost fatherly concern for the boy who had become his favorite pupil. After discussing it over with the Head Woman, Hyasin moved to formally foster the lad, welcoming Zarike as his own son.
Hyasin also saw potential in the lad and as soon as he'd settled in, Hyasin began teaching him Harper tricks, expanding the child's vocabulary and teaching him ways of persuasion and problem solving. He took as much joy in teaching as Zarike did in learning though nothing the harper did could dissuade Zarike's adventurous ways nor stop him from getting into the occasional scuffle with the other weyrbrats.

Life was generally calm and found Hyasin happier than he'd been in turns until the revolution struck. Hyasin had stayed behind, helping watch the creche as most of the adults in Trine made their way to watch the demonstration. He'd come up with a few outdoors lessons to entertain the children as their caretakers and guardians weren't around. It wasn't hard to sense the brewing undercurrent of unrest among the whers, he'd unfortunately discounted it as the normal dissent between the two factions of dragon-kind. The day they'd struck Hyasin had thankfully taken the children to the outskirts of Trine, planning a camp out in a sparse section of jungle that saw little of predator activity due to the proximity to dragons.

His lesson on the varieties of plant and animal life around Trine and their uses was interrupted by the screeching of a couple firelizards as they burst into the air above their bondeds. The older students began to panic as the horrible images were projected to their young minds. In the distance, columns of smoke began to rise from the weyr and Hyasin realized something terrible had happened. He quickly ushered the children deeper into the forest, asking those with lizards to explain what they were seeing and keep an eye out for dangers in the jungle.

Their one night camp-out turned into two horrible sevendays as the fighting continued. Hyasin used what knowledge he had to help keep the kids safe and fed and hidden. Frequent reports from the firelizards kept them informed as to the state of things and as they reported the Riders finally driving the whers away, Hyasin packed up the kids and began the slow careful progress back home.

Description:Hyasin stands straight at a respectable enough 5'9". He's still relatively fit even if he is 'softening' around the edges. His skin is fair from a lifetime spent more indoors at intellectual pursuits than outside doing hard labor. Hyas's once dark hair has turned ashy at the temples, long streaks of grey striping his chin length curls. His blue eyes are still as sharp as ever though, requiring no lenses to help him.

Personality:
Positive, loyal, generous, affectionate, responsible
Cowardly, dependent upon others approval, lacks faith in self,

mostly just a somewhat meek people pleaser.

(Working on getting this written out but those are the traits I'm working from)

Other: Foster father of Zarike.