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The New Hope Clutch is hatching! And to everyone's surprise a White has spilled onto the sands after the combined help of the candidates freed it! To top it all off a huge pride of felines is attacking the Weyr during the Hatching! Will all the babies survive? What about the people and Dragons of the Weyr? So far one Bronze has been killed, and Hikari has nearly been murdered herself by the blood thirsty cats, only escaping by pure luck!
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Weyrwoman: Gold-Green Mertaith of Hikari
Weyrleader:Brown Tamith of Knalen (Kn'len)
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Blue (Herm) Alianth
Green Aoith
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Indigenous Species; Flora and Fauna
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Jun 20 2011, 06:34 PM
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Dragonkin
Dragonet: The name for the pre-mentasynth enhanced firelizards. They have pincer-like forefeet with a tridactyl claw and their bodies heavier and heads longer than modern firelizards. For more information see the Firelizard and Dragonet subforum here
Firelizard: The name for modern firelizards descended from the mentasynth enhanced dragonets that were bioengineered by Kitti Ping before she went on the engineer the dragons. They have pentadactyl (five fingered) claws and are leaner and have flatter noses then the old dragonets. Firelizards return to the wild when their humans die. They do not suicide like dragons do when their owners die. Kitti Ping saw to it that dragons followed their riders in death, but made no provisions for flits. For more information see the Firelizard and Dragonet subforum here
Wild wherries: Large predatory avians. They have four legs and two wings, but instead of feathers, they are covered in thick proto-feathers, multiple tufts like a Terran Marabou stork. They range in size from twice the height of a Terran turkey to the size of an ostrich, and turn cannibal when one of their number is wounded or killed.
Wild Avians: Small, bird-like, native creatures of Pern that have four legs and two wings. They are believed to be related to Wherries and come in a wide variety of species. Some can be tamed and kept as pets like song-birds.
Domestic-wherries: Either wild wherries with their wings clipped to prevent flight or flightless descendants of wherries captured and bred by the original colonists, as the wild turkey was domesticated by Terrans.
Watch Wher: Impressable creatures bioengineered by Wind Blossom Ping in an attempt to improve on Kitti Ping's design of the dragons, resulting in ugly, malformed, photophobic, flightless dragons. They grow to about the size of a low slung runner and can move with surprising speed. Used by Holds and Weyrs as guard animals. Also useful in mining due to their superior night vision. They do not die when their masters die and often stay loyal to the family that owns them. The live about 60 - 100 turns though. Intelligence is low, about that of a 2 year old child at best. They do not name themselves like dragons do when hatchlings. They do not speak as dragons do, and are NOT good pets. You won't find them in the wild, as their breeding is strictly controlled. For more information see the Wher subforum here
Tunnel snake: A snakelike creature with a turtle-like face and six limbs. Most are poisonous and live in caves and stony outcroppings. Most average 2-4 feet in length. Some have scales, some have skin, but most have six stubby limbs for creeping along tunnels. There are even water dwelling species. Some species are edible, but almost all are considered pests and they don't have a particularly good taste.
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Aquatic
Shellfish: Aquatic animals with shells. Such as clams, muscles, etc. Edible and are a delicacy among the more land-based settlements. There are both saltwater and freshwater varieties.
Fingertails: Small, long bodied, carp-like fish with a whip-like tail and multiple fins giving them a furry look. Edible.
Rockmites: Tiny little water-dwelling beetles often found hiding in the cracks of rocks. (interpreted description)
Packtail: A tasty, but dangerously barbed fish. Edible. (Resembling the Terran monkfish)
Spiderclaws: Small crab-like creatures with many pairs of jointed legs. Edible.
Speckler: A large tasty fish. Edible. (Much like the Terran bass--Interpreted description.)
Flatfish: Bottom dwelling fish. Edible but doesn't have a pleasant taste. (Much like the Terran halibut or flounder--Interpreted description)
Yellowtail: A large edible fish with a yellow tail. (Much like the Terran tuna--Interpreted description).
Watersnakes: A water-dwelling variety of tunnelsnake with fins instead of legs. Most types are no bigger than their land-bound cousins, but some types are huge, growing nearly to the size of a small dragon. The larger Watersnakes can be dangerous
Sea eels: A long, slippery, snakelike fish with three pairs of tiny fins. Believed to have been the ancestor of the tunnelsnake.
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Insects
Crawlers: A sort of small, six-legged, gecko looking creature that crawls along walls and even ceilings with their sticky little feet. They have a round stinging mouth and no eyes. Humans and dragons loathe them, firelizards and dragonets love to eat them.
Sandworms: The sandworm of Igen. Ugly, grub-like creatures known for the fact that they eat thread. It is believed that grubs were bred from them by some.
Grubs: Lumpy, furry little grubs that have spread throughout the southern continent. They are known both for their eating of Thread and their beneficial affect on the plants around them.
Fly-by: A small flying insect much like a gnat.
Leeches: A blood sucking worm found in slow moving water.
Flies: Small insects much like the housefly, but built differently. They may bite.
Wrigglers: Native worms much like earthworms.
Trundlebugs: A useful insect that eats parasites, turns the soil and acts as a pollinator. They have the most elaborate color camouflage of all the insects found on Pern and come in many colors. When disturbed they let off a fowl stink.
(Pernese) Fireflies: A small winged beetle whose abdomen glows with a luminescent light. Looks a bit like the Terran firefly, but tends to glow in different colors.
VTOLS: A sort of furry insect with double pairs of wings. The discoverers of these insects named them VTOLS (for 'Vertical Take-Off and Landing').
Bedbugs: A small wingless, biting insect that infests bedding, etc.
Crawlies: See crawlers.
Rollers: A type of wood louse.
Springs: Insects that hang in spiral loops until they find someone or something to cling to. They have an irritating, prickly bite.
Millipedes: A wormlike insect with many little legs. Trundlebugs are a species of Pernese millipede.
Spinners: Native species of Pernese spiders. Some have a poisonous bite, though not many are fatal to Humans to Dragons.
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Flora
There is a wide variety of plant-life on Pern, and many of the plants don't have names or their uses not yet known.
The plants best-known to humans residing on Pern are those that are useful. There are several types of plants which are edible to humans, including the redfruit tree, which produces a red, plum-like fruit, and the klah tree, whose bark is infused like coffee into a stimulant beverage reminiscent of chocolate, coffee and cinnamon. Native medicinal plants include dragon's tongue, which produces a gel similar to aloe; the needlethorn, whose hollow thorns can be used as hypodermic needles; numbweed, a strong analgesic plant that is made into a cream that numbs small wounds completely, and dulls larger wounds; and fellis, which produces a juice used as a soporific drug. Fellis is sometimes used as an anesthetic along with numb-weed during surgeries, or if someone has gone into shock.
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