Keldra and Galastar (finally!)

solembumer · January 3rd, 2011, 7:32 pm

Keldra and Galastar

Name: Keldra

Age: 19

Gender: male

Skills: At least 3 lines of elaboration for each skill type.
(Keldra has shown no outstanding skills at this point; they have yet to develop and show themselves.)
Keldra is trained in the arts of the Riders, although he has yet to perfect many of their arts. He has a small talent for flying, although he needs a lot more practice before he will be fluent in working with Galastar.

Race: Human

Hair: blonde

Eyes: green

Home Village: Kuasta

Parents: Kese, mother, deceased; Menrick, father, also deceased

Siblings: Senja, sister

Character Personality: At least 12 lines.
Keldra is generally mild-mannered and polite. He can be very chatty with some people and friends, and is very competitive around men his own age. He sparred with then as often as he could while he was training to be a Dragon Rider. With those he chats with, he enjoys trading stories, telling jokes and riddles, and discussing any big news he hears about. He is fairly honest, but if it helps the situation to lie he will.
Around the elves and his seniors he is very quiet, only speaking when spoken too. He is very respectful of them and listens to any advice they give him attentively. He follows all advice he is given as best he can, and used much of it during his training to give him an advantage over the elves he frequently sparred with. He often won such fights.
Galastar and Keldra enjoy flying together as often as they can, practicing aerial moves and forming attack and defense strategies. This knowledge helps them both to work together more fluidly, and strengthens the mental bond between them. They enjoy it and it helps both to relax after a hard day.
Keldra is very protective of his sister, Senja. Now that his training is finished, he hopes to spend more time with her as he was not able to see her very often while he was in training. They are very close, and he values their relationship almost more than his relationship with Galastar.
He doesn’t mind crowds or large gatherings. He usually enjoys them and always attends if he can, unless it is about politics, which he has no interest in.

Character History: At least 15 lines.
Keldra was born on an autumn day 19 years ago. His mother, Kese, was a herbalist in the town of Kuasta. His father, Menrick, was a tradesman. Both died in a rebel attack when he was six. His fifteen year old sister, Senja, was only two at the time.
Ten years later, while searching the ruins on Vroengard, he found a valuable stone. It was black with light speckles across it. He was instantly reminded of the legends of Eragon, the poor farm boy from Carvahall who had found an egg and become a Rider, the one who had resurrected the dragon race. He knew the stone was a dragon egg. He searched for more, hoping to have found a hoard. He searched for hours, finding no others. He decided to take the male egg-for he was certain it was a male-back to Ellesméra with him.
He left as soon as he could. During his entire trip-across the waters, through forests and over the Spine, through the meadows and outer reaches of Du Weldenvarden-he never let go of the egg. He neared Ellesméra, taking care to avoid others, when the egg began to shake. He stopped, finding a place well out of the way of anyone passing through. A hole suddenly appeared in the egg, an hour later, a tiny dragon was sitting in a cup of shell in his hands. He braced himself before reaching down to stroke the tiny head. A barrage of excruciating pain wrung through him. He looked at the silvery black mark on his left palm, feeling a shiver as it ran down his spine. I am a Rider.
When he entered Ellesméra, all hell broke loose. The human boy had found a nonexistent dragon egg and hatched it in the two months he’d been gone. And it looked as if the dragon was less than a week old, to boot.
A 15-year old human girl ran up to the him. “Keldra, you’re back! And what’s your name?” she asked the hatchling. “You are gorgeous!” It was Senja, his sister and only living family member. Both parties were aware of the customs of the Dragon Riders. Had Keldra’s companion been anything else, she would have immediately cuddled it.
That day, the Dragon Riders opened up their ranks to him.
As the young Rider and his dragon grew older, he realized he’d been correct about the dragon’s gender. It was a male. Then came the time to name him. Keldra new that an ordinary, new-time dragon name would not work. The hatchling, however, remembered older dragon names, among these Syrica, Mogretu, and Galastar. They both agreed on Galastar, because of his scales.
Keldra and Galastar went through the rigorous training, finally finishing almost four years later. (This is where they are now.)

Weapons: At least a 2 line description for each weapon, if it isn't plain.
Rider’s sword, Yawë

Likes:
Keldra enjoys spending time flying with Galastar, practicing aerial maneuvers and making strategies for use in battle. He also enjoys spending time with his sister when he can. When he was training to be a rider, he enjoyed sparring and challenging the other young men who were training with him. He also usually enjoys large social gatherings.

Dislikes:
Keldra had no interest in politics; though he realizes they are necessary, he finds nothing fun about them. He dislikes being separated from Senja and Galastar for long periods of time.

Weakness / Fear:
Keldra has a deep, ingrained fear of snakes. He doesn’t understand why but they scare him senseless. He has a fear of losing Galastar and Senja, which is fairly understandable to those around him.

Animal Companions: none

Other Companions: Galastar, a dragon

Character's Physical Description: At least 5 lines.
Keldra is fairly tall at 5-9. He has blond hair and green eyes. His ears are slightly pointed like those of an Elf, the result of bonding with a dragon, and he has a silvery Gedwey Ignasia on his left palm. He tends to where a black robe and tunic, to match Galastar. He also wears a set of tough-soled boots made of leathrblaka hide. He carries his Rider’s sword, Yawë, on his belt at all times, and is never seen without it. He wears a thin silver bracelet, shaped like a dragon in flight, and a ring that matches it. The dragon’s eyes are made of obsidian.

Dreams for the Future:
Keldra dreams of eventually finding himself a wife and a family, most likely of Elvish descent. He knows this is unlikely but he can’t help but hope it will eventually become true. He also dreams of Senja finding herself a dragon and becoming a rider, so she will be more like him.

Reason for Dreams:
Keldra realizes his first dream is highly unlikely, but it’s what he always wanted before he became a Rider and what he dreamed of as a child. He wishes Senja was a Rider so he would not have to watch her grow old and die, so she could be young forever.

Alignment/side: Free people of Alagaesia

For dragon riders only:

Dragon Name: Galastar

Age: 4

Gender: male

Parents: Denscal, mother, deceased; Fenedro, father, also deceased

History: At least 5 lines.
Galastar’s egg was laid more than 370 years before he hatched. His mother, Denscal, was a member of the Dragon Rider’s Order; her rider was an Elf names Rohan. His father, Fenedro, was a wild dragon.
Galastar found many potential riders of those who touched his egg would be good matches for him, but each time he sensed that, no matter how perfect each seemed, he needed to wait a bit longer. When Alagaesia fell to Galbatorix, Galastar’s egg was lost in the rubble on Vroengard.
Years later, Keldra discovered it quite by accident. When Keldra first touched his egg, Galastar felt the same sense that he needed to wait. Where before he was content to continue waiting, he was now beginning to get impatient. He wanted to see the world, the person who was holding his egg so carefully in their arms, to see himself. He had sensed the boy holding his egg was different from all the other potential riders who had held him before The Fall.
The person carried him night and day and, as they neared what he sensed to be their destination, he realized that the need to wait had disappeared. He suddenly felt a much different need: the need to hatch. He desperately began trying to escape his egg. He clawed at it, straining his muscles and snapping his teeth in an attempt to break the shell’s hard casing. Suddenly, a speck of light illuminated the inside of his egg, blinding him. All he could see was white, a welcome change from the darkness he’d always known. He began to fight harder, to feel the tightness of his shell, to realize his Rider had finally arrived. He was tiny, compared to the thing whose arms held him. A huge hand reached down, but the hatchling knew he had nothing to fear from the hand. A finger touched the top of his head, and as the owner reeled back in pain he glimpsed the silvery black mark on the boy’s hand.
Suddenly, a barrage of information hit him like a brick wall. Images and pictures of a girl, humans, elves, dwarves, Vroengard itself, even Alagaesia, filled his small mind. It went on and on. This is how it feels to be the dragon of a Rider, he realized.

Personality: At least 5 lines
Galastar is a wild, competitive young dragon. He enjoys challenging other dragons his age to race and attempting to outwit them with jokes and riddles. He enjoys spending time with Keldra practicing maneuvers and strategizing. He too has no interest in politics, but watches them closely so he knows what the state of the country is because he knows Keldra won’t do that. One thing he is serious about is advice he is given. He memorizes it and does not forget what he learns. Galastar is not vain as his appearance is very strange, but he finds poking fun at others who he knows will give him a satisfying retort to be a hobby.

Color: black and yellowish-white

Appearance: At least 3 lines.
Galastar has a bulky, rather huge body and wings in proportion to the rest of him. His scales are a deep black all except for a few small yellowish-white scales randomly spread across his body. He also has one large spot on the underside of his jaw. These markings are what gave him his name. His head is rather small as are his legs, and when he spreads his humongous wings they seem to be even smaller.

Armour: (if any) none

Dreams for future:
Galastar dreams of one day finding a mate and of looking less awkward than he currently does.

Reasons for dreams:
He wants to find someone other than his Rider and Senja who cares about him, but not just yet. He feels that his awkward appearance turns off the young female dragons.

Weakness / Fear:
Galastar is scared of losing Keldra and Senja. The unknown also scares him, become he cannot contemplate it.

A side note-it has snake stuff on it, I know! It stinks terribly! Blame Ari for that.

Keldra and Galastar (finally!)

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