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Name: Shahera
Age: 21
Sex: Female
Sexual Orientation: Pansexual
Craft: Courtesan
Rank: Journeyman
Location: Western Weyr
Physical Description: Small and lithe, Shahera stands only four foot ten. She has long black hair that gleams a purple thanks to the dyes that she sometimes uses, caramel skin, and violet eyes. She is beautiful and knows how to use makeup to enhance her beauty without being obvious. Her clothing is flamboyant and elegant most of the time, but she never flinches away from getting them dirty.

Personality: Bubbly and silly are two words that are often used to describe Shahera. Bouncy is another one. She is very much a mischievous odd one that loves to be the non sequitur. Most people think that she is stupid and vapid if they don’t think her flat out crazy. It appears that she takes nothing seriously. This is not really true, in that she knows that things can be serious, important, and dangerous, she just doesn’t really think that requires being stoic either. Shahera is sarcastic, quick to crack jokes, and sometimes ends up being cruel in her jokes without meaning to be. She is clever and perceptive, and good at keeping from saying what she sees. She can also be difficult and stubborn to just be annoying because it delights her.

One of her favorite things to do is hang. To hang from anything she can from bars in the gym, to flag poles on roofs and rafters. And she will drop in front of people to say ‘hi!.’ She knows she isn’t invincible, she has had her share of broken bones, but she certainly trusts that she will never get hurt beyond the ability of the healers.

History: Shahera was born to two harpers who had dedicated their lives to study and the understanding of culture. They lived at the Harper Hall where she spent much of her childhood roaming the halls and generally being underfoot. But she was charming and harmless, if a bit prone to scaring people by hanging from the rafters, so the harpers put up with her. She even became a mascot to some of the apprentices as she could get things out of the masters that the apprentices could never achieve.

Her parents wanted Shahera to follow in their footsteps and become a harper, but Shahera had no interest in the studies. She wanted to play, dance, sing, and generally move more than haper studies required. Out of desperation of getting her to focus on something at all, Shahera’s parents contacted people they knew at the Courtesan Hall asking if they would take Shahera as an apprentice. A Journeyman came out to see, and that was that. Shahera went to Western Hold to live.

She excelled at her studies and made friends easily, even if not always the deepest friendships were formed. Her areas of specialty became ostentatiously dance and acrobatics with a side of secret spycraft and assassination, and she danced through walking the tables at the age of 17.

Her studies continued at the courtesan’s Hall for a while after as what she was learning was so very difficult to teach while out and about. Though she did take trips here and there for this and that, usually under the supervision of a Master and for a specific purpose. Sometimes it was intelligence gathering, sometime mock assassination attempts (never any real ones for her), and very often gathers and social events. A small, bubbly, silly, and flamboyant lady makes a remarkable spy in some ways.

Three years later thread fell and she became an orphan. Her parents had been out in the field studying and were caught without shelter in the first return of thread. While she wasn’t particularly close to her parents she also was not distant either. Shahera spent some time wandering around, using her journeyman status as a way to do so, and observing the impact that threadfall had on the continents. During that time she started to make contacts of her own among both the elite and the lowest of the low for information. Of course, the elite don't really give her information. She is cultivating their friendships in hopes of gaining information in the future. One must start somewhere after all. She has become very concerned about resource hoarding as well as other societal perils.

A couple months later, Shahera returned to Western Hold and a dragon searched her when his rider came to the Courtesan’s Hall for another reason. Shahera had decided to help take care of the dragon and practically talked his ear off about what she had seen. When the rider came back out, the dragon basically told the rider, “this one” and Shahera said yes. It might limit her ability to wander and things, but the opportunity was too good to pass up.

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Candidate Specific Questions
Do you want them to have an official Search RP? No
Do you understand they will age every passing year regardless if you're there to RP the or not? Yes
Do you want them to have a possible Stands Impression? No