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Hayda
Rank	Retired
Home	Tillek Hold
Mother	Former Assistant Headwoman at Tillek Hold
Father	Seacrafter
Siblings	D'van (NPC), rider of blue Rydanth
Children	Three sons and daughter Raya
Status	public
Owner:	HighReachesW_Bldr

At a Glance

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Hayda is a kindly woman in her early forties with an average build and dark graying hair most often pulled back. Signs of sadness linger about her warm brown eyes and she is often quiet, though unfailingly polite and correct in her address to others.

Born and raised at Tillek, Hayda comes to the Reaches by way of her blueriding brother, D'van first as a potential to replace an ailing Dassah as Headwoman, and then after several interviews, being given the intricate knot, offices, and keys of the position. Adept and methodical, Hayda's general mode of operation is calmness, doling out both praise and criticism in the same neutral fashion. Not easily angered, the only things that seem to get Hayda riled up are uncleanliness and slovenliness, and even then she is more likely to simply frown a little and quietly tack more duties onto an offender's roster. She has mastered the art of the quelling look and staffers and residents alike will probably come to know and perhaps even dread having that look turned upon them when they've fallen down on the job.

Description

Hayda is a kindly woman with an average build and dark graying hair most often pulled back. Signs of sadness linger about her warm brown eyes and she is often quiet, though unfailingly polite and correct in her address to others.

History

Born and raised at Tillek, Hayda is the daughter of a journeyman Seacrafter and one of the assistants to the Headwoman at Tillek Hold. Middle of five children, her two older brothers took to the Craft after her father while she and her younger sister followed in her mother's footsteps to work at the Hold. Her baby brother however, several turns younger than the others due to two lost babies in between, was much coddled and indulged and did not go to sea with the rest of the men in his family. Instead he started an informal apprenticeship with the Hold's Harper before Search took Dayvan off to the Weyr where he Impressed blue Rydanth and became D'van.

Hayda's life has been very uneventful, she started working up at the Hold when she was very young, first accompanying her mother as an infant on her back, then as an increasingly able child helper when she wasn't in Harper lessons. Nimble-fingered, Hayda is an exceptionally gifted seamstress. There was talk at one point of her apprenticing to the Weavers, however she met a charming apprentice Seacrafter first and fell in love and married Randin as soon as he walked the tables when she was only seventeen and he barely twenty.

Randin and Hayda settled into a little cothold between Seacraft and Hold just as Hayda's parents had, Randin sailing out with his Craft, Hayda keeping house and working for the Headwoman at the Hold in between babies. Over the next ten turns, Hayda bore six children, four of whom lived to come of age, three sons and a daughter. All three boys followed their father into the Seacraft while daughter Raya took up the Weaver apprenticeship that Hayda herself had given up in order to marry. With her household now empty of children, Hayda's occupation centered around keeping house for Randin and continuing to work up at the Hold until a winter storm robbed her of her husband.

Lonely and grieving, Hayda withdrew a little from her formerly active life and concerned for her welfare, her eldest son wrote to his uncle D'van at the Weyr about the possibility of a visit there. In light of the then-Headwoman's retirement, D'van brought his sister to the Weyrwoman's attention as a possible replacement. Forthwith, the bluerider was asked to bring Hayda to the Weyr for an interview and within the month, she accepted the knot and keys from the Weyrwoman, taking over day to day operations of the lower caverns.

Hayda is a kindly woman, average of build with dark graying hair most often pulled back in a knot at the knape of her neck. Signs of sadness still linger around her warm brown eyes and she is often quiet, though always unfailingly polite and correct in her address to others. Very organized, she's tackling the lower caverns at the Reaches in a very methodical fashion, setting up shifts to take care of things and otherwise get things as 'ship shape' as she used to keeping them in her home and at Tillek Hold. Calmness is Hayda's general mode of operation, dealing out both praise and punishment in the same neutral, almost flat way. Not easily angered, the only things that seem to get Hayda riled up are uncleanliness and slovenliness and even then she is more likely to simply frown a little and quietly tack more duties onto an offender's roster than yell and cause a fuss. She has mastered the art of the quelling Look and staffers and residents alike will probably come to know and perhaps even dread having that look turned upon them when they've fallen down on the job.

Hayda retired from her position as Headwoman at the Weyr early in turn 18 and returned home to Tillek.

Relationships

• Husband Randin, deceased.
• Brother D'van (NPC), rider of blue Rydanth at HRW.

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