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Svelte and undeniably striking, Tiriana carries herself with a bearing that only enhances her natural beauty: impeccably straight posture and an often smirky tilt of full and pouty lips, very red in contrast to her ink-black hair and fair skin. Barely-there freckles cross the bridge of her nose, her high cheekbones, while her eyes are neither wholly blue nor green, but often rimmed with smoky kohl. Her wavy dark hair is always left loose, sleek curls framing her face and reaching to mid-back.

Tall at five-foot-nine, Tiriana's leggy frame is always markedly well-dressed, with a penchant for rich colors and fine fabrics tailored to show off her figure.

WYSK

• Tiriana was born with a chip on her shoulder, her heart on her sleeve, and a silver spoon in her mouth.

• Tiriana and Iovniath aren't Reachian natives; N'thei hauled her to the Reaches along about turn 17, after Telgar threw her out.

• Famous for her fists when she was younger, Tiriana's more known these days for her pride, her fashion sense, and her brutal honesty--especially if she doesn't like you. Which she probably doesn't.

• Her father was the long-time Weyrleader of Ierne, now retired. Her weyrmate was the long-time Weyrleader of Fort, now also retired. They seem comfortable, after over eight turns together. Just don't mention babies.

• When Satiet offed herself in turn 19, she left her knot to Tiriana. They're still working out the kinks, but hey, the place hasn't fallen down around her ears yet. Unless you count the Star Stones.

• Teris is Tiriana's personal assistant. K'del is her Weyrleader, confirmed by both of Iovniath's flights. They're not exactly besties, although at least not mortal enemies like her and her headwoman Milani.

History

With a moody Southern junior weyrwoman for a mother and Ierne's bastard of a Weyrleader for her father, Tiriana was destined to be a brat from birth. She spent her earliest years being shunted back and forth between the two Weyrs until she was old enough to declare she wanted to stay at Ierne; she was always a daddy's girl at heart. Her mother Tirya was a distant, often sullen woman who didn't really know how to interact with her children, Tiriana and her three-years-older half-sister Cyrra, while Tiriana's father Sh'drian's main contribution to Tiriana's development was to teach her all his bad habits: cursing and fighting and drinking (she's just lucky the womanizing never took).

Neither were very good parents by most standards, spoiling Tiriana and failing to provide any discipline or impart a sense of consequences in her. As far as they were concerned, she could do no wrong: her mother considered her perfect, just another child; her father deliberately goaded her to follow in his footsteps with rebellion and misbehavior. With her parents, particularly her father, being highly ranked and unpredictable leaders, the nannies and harpers of the Weyrs had little luck in training Tiriana any better because she learned early on that if someone did something she didn't like, all she had to do was tell her parents and it would be fixed right away.

Left to run amok in the lower caverns, Tiriana grew up and grew worse, terrorizing those around her. She was in and out of fights for turns, her quick temper and smart mouth getting her into more than a few scrapes. After a while, it was hardly even remarkable anymore, and the only thing that really stands out as such in her childhood is her mother's death. Tiriana was seven when Tirya was killed in a runner accident and she and her sister were left fully to Sh'drian, Ierne, and the occasional intervention of Sh'drian's mother and eldest sister.

Tiriana and Tirya had never been especially close, but Tiriana was of course still affected by it, and if she had never been a very feminine child to begin with, she certainly suffered moreso with no motherly influence at all. Her aunt and grandmother were poor substitutes, though they tried; post-death, Tirya was rapidly idealized as the epitome of both Weyrwoman and femininity until--much like the father Tiriana already idolized--no real person could live up to Tirya's mantle.

After that, Tiriana spent another five turns at Ierne following in her father's footsteps walking over everyone before abruptly she found herself at Telgar. Dumped on her father's polar opposite younger brother, Tiriana was quite bitter about being abandoned, shoved off on some stupid other Weyr with stupid people like R'dur. That sullenness, in fact, marked the first two or even three turns of her living there, as what was initially said to be a temporary arrangement kept dragging on.

If anything, the change in location only made Tiriana more inclined to pick fights, both to take out her frustrations on others and to reassert her rule on a population that didn't understand she was supposed to be able to do whatever she wanted without questions, as Ierne's had learned. That sort of mindset culminated in an incident at High Reaches Weyr during the Crom fiasco, where she started a fight during diplomatic negotiations and was quickly pulled back to Telgar and informed that if she got in any more fights, she could be sent back to Ierne.

It was the first step in putting together that consequences weren't just something that happened to lesser people, the unwashed masses who didn't have a Weyrleader for a father. The next few turns were hard ones, as she felt with everything from falling in love to realizing that she was wasting her life. And then--

She got searched. Age eighteen, and finally a candidate, Tiriana was equal parts excited, determined, and terrified throughout the whole of candidacy. But finally, the day after her nineteenth birthday, Liabeth and Kevruth's eggs hatched and Imperial Faberge Garden Gold Iovniath chose Tiriana for her rider, thrusting the young woman into the position she always wanted.

Things since then haven't been quite the cakewalk Tiriana imagined, though. For one thing, there was that whole business of the comet pass--begun just as Tiriana reached age to stand--ending again just as she impressed to fight it. And then there was the discovery that no, being a weyrwoman isn't a free ticket to do whatever you want. That realization came hard in Turn 17, as after a diplomatic incident of royal proportions, Telgar unceremoniously threw out their youngest junior.

And who else should claim her, but the Reaches? N'thei, once her mortal enemy during the Crom debacle, arrived shortly after her exile to escort her to High Reaches Weyr, which shortly became Tiriana's home more thoroughly than anywhere else had ever been. Though still by and large a hopeless case as a weyrwoman, Tiriana still managed to grow up quite a bit, between Satiet's tutelage and her long-distance relationship with R'uen, transferred from Telgar to Fort and eventually claiming its Weyrleadership.

Then, Satiet died. Killed herself, actually, after being diagnosed with terminal liver disease. And she left Tiriana in charge, trusting her hot-tempered junior more than said junior probably trusted herself. After a few miserable weeks, Iovnaith rose for the first time, however--though her first choice for Weyrleader, A'son, stabbed himself to get away from her. Just-turned-seventeen K'del became Weyrleader instead when his Cadejoth captured Iovniath, resulting in sixteen eggs.

The hatching was successful, and things seemed to be working out. R'uen stepped down and transferred to the Reaches, and Tiriana seemed happier and more at ease than she had been in turns, gradually growing into this whole Weyrwoman thing. But then there were raiders, and a land deal gone wrong with Crom. Sh'drian, her hero, became ill, nearly died, and in the end stepped down as Ierne's Weyrleader. And then the Star Stones got brought down by a meteor, the aftermath of which drove the Reaches' only other goldrider, Igen transfer Ezalea, away. Things never quite settle down for the fledgling Weyrleaders, even after Iovniath's second flight, a bare two turns after the first, reconfirmed K'del as Weyrleader. That clutch resulted in twenty eggs--including a gold, which the Weyr anxiously awaits to see who will impress.

Relationships

• Tiriana hero-worships Satiet, even with her mentor dead and gone now. She used to idolize her daddy Sh'drian, too, but not so much anymore. She's still fairly close to all her family, though they pretty much all live at Ierne now.

• Tiriana's relationships with most people are best described as hostile. Tops of the list is Milani, and K'del's not far behind. Or N'thei. A'son. W'chek and Z'yi. Which brings us to--

• She has few people she may, tentatively, call 'friends': Yuliye, though she's more frenemy. B'tal, maybe. Teris, too, is possibly less friend than sidekick. Okay, so Tiriana really doesn't have any friends, and she's mostly okay with that. Better to be feared and obeyed than... something something not like she really needs anybody else, anyway. Yeah.

• Despite this, Tiriana and R'uen make a surprisingly comfortable pair; he's definitely the calm, level-headed one to her impatience and temper. In fact, he likes to be kind of sickeningly cute sometimes, even in public, and Tiriana... kind of likes that, although she'd certainly hit you if you dared mention anything about it.

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