Post by phlysolo on Nov 8, 2008 12:09:43 GMT -5
Name: Akeela
Gender: Female
Age: 67
Season: Winter
Sexuality: Hetero
Rank: Master Baker, although not the Master
Hair: Brown, with lots of grey
Eyes: Hazel
Height: 5'6, appears shorter as she's got a slightly humped back
Weight: 189
Description:
Short and plump, Akeela is everything you'd expect to see a baker to look like. Her cheeks are a rosey, happy red and her rather slacky lips always seem to have an upward curve to them. On her face, her hair, and her arms seem to be everlasting flour stains that give her already milky-white skin tone an even paler color which only tends to make her naturally blushed cheeks seem brighter.
The woman's hazel eyes have a kind, merry twinkle to them, as though she delights in everything in the world around her. To those she works around, they also convey wisdom and express that she may know more than she lets on about any topic that relates to the Craft which she's devoted her life to. Indeed, even her slightly humped back and slouched body still suggest that despite her years, she's still a smart, smarmy old woman with many Turns ahead of her.
Despite her rank and the marks she must surely posses from the Turns of service she's spend producing delicious and delectable breads, pastries, and other grain based delights, Akeela dresses simply. Skirts and frocks seem to become her and every item of clothing she owns appears to be quite old, though she'll hear not a word from someone who suggests she buy something new. Indeed the woman is quite happy with the clothing she does have, although most of it is staind with fruit juices, frostings, icing, jams, jellies, and a whole slew of other once yummy-nummy baking ingredients. Flour, too, has been caked onto many of the approns she wears.
History:
Akeela was born at Ista Hold to a family of seventeen, she being one of the youngest. Her mother was an excellent chef herself, but had no desire to pursue a Craft. She, unusual for a Pernese mother, wished to raise her children by herself, under her own rules. Creching seemed like a waste of time to the woman so while Akeela's father and oldest siblings worked, her mother and her older sister by twelve Turns helped raise the family.
They were all a jolly bunch: Despite the fact that it was difficult for the family to procure food for each of their children, Akeela and her sibblings never went hungry for love. It was, perhaps, lucky that most of her sibblings were tapped by the Crafthalls and Searched away by the dragonriders: as the Turns went by her large family became smaller and smaller.
Most of their family became Tanners, like Akeela's father, although a few went to the Harper Hall, one to the Smith, and an amazing four went to Ista. Out of those, three actually were Impressed to dragons and the fourth remained at the Weyr, enjoying the free lifestyle it offered.
As for Akeela, she had taken on very quickly to the Craft that her mother personally accelled at : Cooking and baking. Yes, Akeela could whip up a delicious dinner, but her specialties truly laid in baking. Indeed, she was usually the one out of mother and daughter to set upon the task of baking breads and rolls for the family to save their father a couple of marks on a loaf of bread every day or so.
The intecrite balance of yeast, flour, water, rising time, and baking time fascinated the girl. When she had the time, and the left over ingredience, she experimented with various styles of baking. It was only a quick jaunt across the Hold for her to speak with one of Ista's own Bakers to obtain recipies and seek advice about certain methods of allowing the critical rising of the bread dough.
Her curiousity and skill did catch the eye of the journeyman baker and when she was of the right age, she was Tapped as an apprentice baker. Akeela flourished in the Baking Hall and, while some of the theories of mechanics and the harvesting and milling of wheat escaped her, she proved to be an excellent and inventive creator of pastries, pastas, and all sorts of breads and cereals.
She spent her time as a journeyman traveling Pern and discovering the different variations of types of bread. Sour dough, she discovered could be changed drastically by taking a piece of the "mother dough" away from the area it was created and cooking it elsewhere. Similarly, she learned more about how different cultures prepared certain breads and what breads or baked products were created across the land.
The girl returned to the Baking Hall with much knowledge. She spent almost twenty years of her life as a journeyman, learning as much a she could, as many recipies she could, about different styles of cooking. The Hall was pleased with her work and for the next forty years, she devoted her life to teaching the apprentices and journeymen that came after her.
When she had reached her fifty-second Turn, the Baking Hall did something unheard of: Akeela was given the rank of Master in her Craft. True, more and more women were becoming journeymen and the Healer Craft had made a woman the overall Craftmaster. Still, the Baking Hall was still traditional in the sense that more females never made more than journeymen, or very senior apprentices. It was truly an acheivement for the aging woman and she wore her title proudly.
Her Turns in the Baking Hall were coming to an end. The Plague of Dragons had spread across the contient of Pern and her inhabitents were scared. Most Crafteres and Candidates alike began to leave the Weyrs as news of the Queen's infertility came a couple Turns later. The Head Cook of Ista Weyr had just been named Headwoman and the Assitant Cooks were mostly those of the Baker Hall, at that junior journeymen and apprentices.
A Master would be needed to lend the Headwoman a hand in the Weyr where a new gold dragonet had been Hatched, a sliver of hope for the hopeless face of Pern. Akeela would be sent to the Weyr, it was decided. Give the apprentices and joureymen an experienced helping hand and the Headwoman a reliable fountain of wisdom.
Personality:
Steady and sure, Akeela never makes decisions without thinking them through. Her years waiting, waiting patiently to dough to rise to a certain height, the bread to be warm enough on one end that it may be gently turned to affect the course of its doneness has made the woman hard to anger. Indeed rarely can anyone man, child, woman, or anything in between can incite her wrath. Her age has, perhaps, made some of her reactions a little bit slow, but the woman acts with deliberate pace and understanding, prefering to mentally consider the task at hand and its best solution before acting on speculation.
Though she may speak with a slight accent, the woman is extremely intelligent and well-learned, both in her Craft and outside of it. It is uncommon for the woman to be wrong about anything within the bounds of her experience as a baker and she is often looked to for advice and guidence by those who are under her. Even with the most incompitent, to the most impatient and hasty, Akeela remains calm and cheerful, dismissing bad words against her or her character.
Indeed the woman Turns on Pern have given Akeela the opportunity to see everything, do everything, expereince much. Rarely will something in this life phase the woman and even with some of the most troubling events on Pern-like Lyeth's fertility-Akeela is not riled or worried about them at all. Things, she has seen in her life, will work themselves out. Nature is an incredibly powerful force, she believes, and can sustain itself and probably better so without human involveemtn. She even saw the Plague as something, while exceedingly unfortunate, not something that was completely a bad thing. Perhaps the dragon popluation had simply become to great, she guesses, having seen instances where wherries or other animals began to perish because of some disease or plague or something of the sort. Nature has a way of controlling life and one must go with the flow instead of trying to force it to change.
Pets:
N/A
Other:
I didn't mention it in her history, but Akeela does have four children. If anyone is interested in, say adopting them, and having like a few mummy/kiddie threads, lemmie know.
Her family does have very strong "dragon genes."
Adoptable: Eh, yeah I guess.
Gender: Female
Age: 67
Season: Winter
Sexuality: Hetero
Rank: Master Baker, although not the Master
Hair: Brown, with lots of grey
Eyes: Hazel
Height: 5'6, appears shorter as she's got a slightly humped back
Weight: 189
Description:
Short and plump, Akeela is everything you'd expect to see a baker to look like. Her cheeks are a rosey, happy red and her rather slacky lips always seem to have an upward curve to them. On her face, her hair, and her arms seem to be everlasting flour stains that give her already milky-white skin tone an even paler color which only tends to make her naturally blushed cheeks seem brighter.
The woman's hazel eyes have a kind, merry twinkle to them, as though she delights in everything in the world around her. To those she works around, they also convey wisdom and express that she may know more than she lets on about any topic that relates to the Craft which she's devoted her life to. Indeed, even her slightly humped back and slouched body still suggest that despite her years, she's still a smart, smarmy old woman with many Turns ahead of her.
Despite her rank and the marks she must surely posses from the Turns of service she's spend producing delicious and delectable breads, pastries, and other grain based delights, Akeela dresses simply. Skirts and frocks seem to become her and every item of clothing she owns appears to be quite old, though she'll hear not a word from someone who suggests she buy something new. Indeed the woman is quite happy with the clothing she does have, although most of it is staind with fruit juices, frostings, icing, jams, jellies, and a whole slew of other once yummy-nummy baking ingredients. Flour, too, has been caked onto many of the approns she wears.
History:
Akeela was born at Ista Hold to a family of seventeen, she being one of the youngest. Her mother was an excellent chef herself, but had no desire to pursue a Craft. She, unusual for a Pernese mother, wished to raise her children by herself, under her own rules. Creching seemed like a waste of time to the woman so while Akeela's father and oldest siblings worked, her mother and her older sister by twelve Turns helped raise the family.
They were all a jolly bunch: Despite the fact that it was difficult for the family to procure food for each of their children, Akeela and her sibblings never went hungry for love. It was, perhaps, lucky that most of her sibblings were tapped by the Crafthalls and Searched away by the dragonriders: as the Turns went by her large family became smaller and smaller.
Most of their family became Tanners, like Akeela's father, although a few went to the Harper Hall, one to the Smith, and an amazing four went to Ista. Out of those, three actually were Impressed to dragons and the fourth remained at the Weyr, enjoying the free lifestyle it offered.
As for Akeela, she had taken on very quickly to the Craft that her mother personally accelled at : Cooking and baking. Yes, Akeela could whip up a delicious dinner, but her specialties truly laid in baking. Indeed, she was usually the one out of mother and daughter to set upon the task of baking breads and rolls for the family to save their father a couple of marks on a loaf of bread every day or so.
The intecrite balance of yeast, flour, water, rising time, and baking time fascinated the girl. When she had the time, and the left over ingredience, she experimented with various styles of baking. It was only a quick jaunt across the Hold for her to speak with one of Ista's own Bakers to obtain recipies and seek advice about certain methods of allowing the critical rising of the bread dough.
Her curiousity and skill did catch the eye of the journeyman baker and when she was of the right age, she was Tapped as an apprentice baker. Akeela flourished in the Baking Hall and, while some of the theories of mechanics and the harvesting and milling of wheat escaped her, she proved to be an excellent and inventive creator of pastries, pastas, and all sorts of breads and cereals.
She spent her time as a journeyman traveling Pern and discovering the different variations of types of bread. Sour dough, she discovered could be changed drastically by taking a piece of the "mother dough" away from the area it was created and cooking it elsewhere. Similarly, she learned more about how different cultures prepared certain breads and what breads or baked products were created across the land.
The girl returned to the Baking Hall with much knowledge. She spent almost twenty years of her life as a journeyman, learning as much a she could, as many recipies she could, about different styles of cooking. The Hall was pleased with her work and for the next forty years, she devoted her life to teaching the apprentices and journeymen that came after her.
When she had reached her fifty-second Turn, the Baking Hall did something unheard of: Akeela was given the rank of Master in her Craft. True, more and more women were becoming journeymen and the Healer Craft had made a woman the overall Craftmaster. Still, the Baking Hall was still traditional in the sense that more females never made more than journeymen, or very senior apprentices. It was truly an acheivement for the aging woman and she wore her title proudly.
Her Turns in the Baking Hall were coming to an end. The Plague of Dragons had spread across the contient of Pern and her inhabitents were scared. Most Crafteres and Candidates alike began to leave the Weyrs as news of the Queen's infertility came a couple Turns later. The Head Cook of Ista Weyr had just been named Headwoman and the Assitant Cooks were mostly those of the Baker Hall, at that junior journeymen and apprentices.
A Master would be needed to lend the Headwoman a hand in the Weyr where a new gold dragonet had been Hatched, a sliver of hope for the hopeless face of Pern. Akeela would be sent to the Weyr, it was decided. Give the apprentices and joureymen an experienced helping hand and the Headwoman a reliable fountain of wisdom.
Personality:
Steady and sure, Akeela never makes decisions without thinking them through. Her years waiting, waiting patiently to dough to rise to a certain height, the bread to be warm enough on one end that it may be gently turned to affect the course of its doneness has made the woman hard to anger. Indeed rarely can anyone man, child, woman, or anything in between can incite her wrath. Her age has, perhaps, made some of her reactions a little bit slow, but the woman acts with deliberate pace and understanding, prefering to mentally consider the task at hand and its best solution before acting on speculation.
Though she may speak with a slight accent, the woman is extremely intelligent and well-learned, both in her Craft and outside of it. It is uncommon for the woman to be wrong about anything within the bounds of her experience as a baker and she is often looked to for advice and guidence by those who are under her. Even with the most incompitent, to the most impatient and hasty, Akeela remains calm and cheerful, dismissing bad words against her or her character.
Indeed the woman Turns on Pern have given Akeela the opportunity to see everything, do everything, expereince much. Rarely will something in this life phase the woman and even with some of the most troubling events on Pern-like Lyeth's fertility-Akeela is not riled or worried about them at all. Things, she has seen in her life, will work themselves out. Nature is an incredibly powerful force, she believes, and can sustain itself and probably better so without human involveemtn. She even saw the Plague as something, while exceedingly unfortunate, not something that was completely a bad thing. Perhaps the dragon popluation had simply become to great, she guesses, having seen instances where wherries or other animals began to perish because of some disease or plague or something of the sort. Nature has a way of controlling life and one must go with the flow instead of trying to force it to change.
Pets:
N/A
Other:
I didn't mention it in her history, but Akeela does have four children. If anyone is interested in, say adopting them, and having like a few mummy/kiddie threads, lemmie know.
Her family does have very strong "dragon genes."Adoptable: Eh, yeah I guess.