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Name: Baylie

Age: 28 

Residence: Veridian Orchards 

NonCraft Rank:Drudge



Brief Description of Persona:


  •  A short, dumpy woman, Baylie would be mildly cute if it wasn't for the perpetual frown on her face. Not even thirty yet, her face is permanently lined from her sour attitude. Her skin is a sallow, dusky color, showing her original hispanic background which you can still see in her family. Unfortunately for her, she didn't gain the narrow, delicate features most of the women have. Her nose is too wide, eyes too small, cheekbones not as high as she would prefer. Baylie's hands are scarred and callused from the past eight years of hard work she's done since she left Star Lake, and her clothes are usually dark colored, in serviceable fabrics


  • Baylie's attitude makes her one of the least popular people at Veridian Orchards. Perpetually resentful, grouchy and generally unpleasant, she has a talent for alienating people. She just can't seem to control her moods, and is continually saying things then regretting them immediately afterward. It makes her appear close-minded and pessimistic, which is the truth for the most part, but Baylie would rather not have that so well known. She has no real hobbies other than working, and so few friends that she spends most of her time doing that than anything else. Her other main downfall is that she is at Veridian Orchards, but _hates_ dragons and their riders due to her past, particularly goldriders. It's that fact that has mainly kept her from her ambition to be Headwoman. 




    

Brief History of Persona:
    

  •  Born at Star Lake Weyr, Baylie was the child of a candidate, Yaline, and her lover Barvon. Yaline didn't want Baylie anymore than Baylie wanted the irresponsible young woman for a mother. However, less than six months later, Yaline impressed a gold at the next hatching. Turning Baylie over to a foster mother without a backward glance, she moved into training and into a junior weyrwoman's position without a backward glance. As the girl got older, she made efforts to see and spend time with her mother, only to be turned away as Yaline's duties kept her tied up for most of every day. 
    

When Baylie turned 12, her first order of business was to petition the senior weyrwoman to stand as a candidate for Star Lake's hatchings. For eight turns, she stood for every single hatching, including a few at other weyrs who were running short on candidates, wanting to Impress, to give Yaline a reason to notice her otherwise unremarkable daughter. Her heart was set on a gold dragonet, and that heart was broken when her 20th birthingday the weyrwoman came to tell her that she would not be allowed to stand again, and would need to choose another position from that day forward. 


    Filled with resentment at her mother, at the senior weyrwoman, at all the other women who'd impressed golds when she didn't, Baylie chose to leave Star Lake, to find some other place to spend her life, away from dragons. Taking what money she had, she joined a trader caravan, intending to get as far away from her birthplace as possible. Unfortunately, her money ran out at the unlikliest place - Veridian Orchards. With no recourse but to stay and no other skills to offer, she accepted a position as a kitchen drudge. 


    J few turns later, Star Lake Weyr was destroyed by an earthquake. Yaline was dead, having suicided after her gold was trapped and killed in her weyr. Proof of her continued resentment of the way her mother had treated her, Baylie was unmoved by the woman's death. Instead, she found one of the local men who was grieving for his own family and seduced him. Her son, Liebin, was conceived that night. 
Now, at 28, Baylie's life has stagnated. Her initial anger when her haven was made into a retirement home for dragonriders still rankles everytime she sees the dragons lounging around her home. She is still in the same position she started in at Veridian Orchards, she desperately wants to move on, to move up, but her attitude has soured the local leadership on her. She has her eye on the Headwoman's position, but no one will risk putting someone with her personality around all the guests who come in. 




    

Attached NPCs:
    
Father: Barvon, Sr. JM Smith Mother: Yaline, rider of gold Mereanth (deceased) Son: Liebin Half-sister by Yaline: Linesha, rider of green Hsavith 


    


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