| SHORT HISTORY |
The youngest of a brood of 12, Esmaya
was born several years after her next older sibling.
Her mother,
thinking she was past her childbearing years, was completely taken by
surprize to learn she was pregnant, her father was overjoyed. From the
day Esmaya
was born everyone commented
on how beautiful she was, as a toddler and youngling
she learned to use
her beauty to charm all she met. Marissa and Esrael doted on their
youngest daughter, depriving her of nothing she wanted, despite their
rank and means,
usually at the expense of their other offspring that
were still living with them. In short they
created the person she has
become.
During her 5th turn her father, no longer able to abide the demands of
the Southern
Lord Holder, applied to the Holder at the newly
re-established Cibola Hold to ply his
trade there. The Cibola Holder
enthusiastically accepted Esrael's request as he was in
need of a metal
smith with Esrael's experience. Marissa was at first relunctant to
leave
the few comforts they had in their home at Southern, but with all
their children,
with the exception of her darling bonus child, married
off or already apprenticed
to a crafthall, she willingly accepted the
transition. Within a sevendays time they had
packed a wagon with their
few possessions, what they had left after trading for the wagon
and
draybeast, and started the long journey across the Southern Continent
to the Cibola Plains holding.
Six turns passed, Esrael's trade as a metal smith prospered. Marissa having only the young
Esmaya,
to tend to and since the child was at an age where most of her days
were spent with
the hold Harper, found a niche in the main hold as a
cook. Both parents continued to dote
on and spoil their beautiful
daughter, relenting to her demands, unable to withstand the
child's
strong will and tantrums. By the time Esmaya
was 13, her body beginning to
bloom further enhanceing her beauty, she
had become not only selfish, but arrogant and self-absorbed.
Over the years Esmaya
had managed to either bully the other girls of the hold into
indifference,
fear or active hate (regardless, these same girls, at
least the one Esmaya deems 'good
'
enuff', vie for her attention and acceptance into her group of
'popular', thinking that
by association with her that it will make them
more attractive/gain stature in others eyes,
especially the young
men/boys that yearn for her attention) and charm the boys into an
ignorant stupor causeing the hopeful young men to ignore her many
faults for the chance
of her eye falling their way. Finally finding
what she deemed an appropriate trade for
herself, not requiring any
type of hard physical labor, exertion, or anything that would result
in
soiling either her clothes or her creamy smooth skin, Esmaya
began designing jewelry.
With her father's background in metalworking
he was able to teach and guide her as to what
could and could not be
done with gold and silver, and how with knowledge and care to turn
her
designs into three dimensional works of art meant to be worn.
The last 2 turns have been no picnic for the ageing Esrael and Marissa,
having to contend with
their difficult daughter. Having learned at an
early age how to get what she wants, her eyes
have turned to finding a
way to raise her station in life, to gain power not just over the few
at
Cibola her age and younger, but over an entire hold of her own. She
flirts outrageously with
every visiting male with a fair sized holding
of his own, hoping to charm her way into a
handfasting. The handsome
offworlder, whose Omega Stakehold is florishing, has picqued
her
interest and at each of his visits over the last turn has flirted
outrageously with him. Her
parents, appalled at her scandelous behavior
with the guests of the Cibola Holder, especially
the mysterious Omega
Stakeholder, are threatening to send her to a small minecraft hall on
the Northern Continent with the excuse of her needing more in depth
instruction for her
jewelry design. This threat has lead to many
screaming arguments and door slamming tantrums
resulting in an
emotional standoff between daughter and parents. Esrael and Marissa
only hope
they can find a Master that will accept their willful
daughter before she further embarrasses them
or angers the Cibola
Holder into turning them out, holdless. As luck would have it Zoriah,
greenrider of Taglith searched Esmaya and took her to the weyr. After many mishaps and incidents
of trouble-making Esmaya withdrew her candidacy for the clutch on the sands, but remained at the Weyr.
Surprizingly at the Hatching a wee twin green dragonet made it's way to
the kitchens to find
her lifemate, toiling there. It is assumed that
since Esmaya had been in contact with the egg prior
to her withdrawing her candidacy that it might have influenced the dragonet. |
