Name: Damian
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Craft: Tannercraft - Cobbler
Rank: Apprentice Equivalent
History: Damian was born blind. This was a minor setback to his two parents, both from Tannercraft fields, though specializing in two seperate areas. Brought up in the proud enviroment of Ghenza, he worked hard at his craft despite his alleged handicap. He now can tell apart threads easily with his fingers, and uses touch, rather than sight, to determine the suitability of a shoe.

He progressed at a rate a little less than what might be considered average, but he has progressed with skill never the less, and can easily mend the most basic of shoes even if those of fancy design escape him. Given time, his ability to see with feeling may make him a very skilled cobbler, but it's yet to be seen if his actual ability makes him capable.

Given his handicap, at age eight, he was bonded to what would become an assistance wher. Both he and the wher were watched very carefully for the first year due to his young age, but the two obviously made it without too much of a scuffle past the initial blooding.

Aside from his blindness, there is nothing abormally relevant in his history.

Appearance: For a Ghenza boy, Damian has a wiry build. His hair is an auburn-brown, moderately short-cut and always in a bit of a frayed mess atop his head. He wears basic cloth, never anything fancy. Some of these are worn around the edges - they are for non-nakedness practicality, not for impressing other people. The only thing noteably nice about him would obviously be his shoes, which, although simple, are very well taken care of. His tailoring supplies, as well, are always carried with him. They are as essential to him as is Damiansk.

Personality: Quiet, observant, Damian certainly doesn't speak much. He is most inclined to sit atop his wher's back and do his tailor work, or head down to the river to bring home some fish during whatever free breaks he allows himself.

Like the majority of Ghenza, Damian takes his work very seriously. Even when he has tired of tailorwork and his hands have cramped, he'll find other friends and crafters to aid. He speaks to them only long enough to get his work done, and then hides inside his own mind once again.

And Damian is a dreamer. Even when he is working, he has fled off to fantasy worlds. Not overly ambitious himself - Damian enjoys the simplicity of life - the images he creates in his mind offer him a playful escape from the same work of day to day life.

When he does talk, it is almost always to ask questions, especially clarifications of ones he has always wondered about. Unfortunately, he has a lack of ability to teach most others unless they learn by direct observation because he is quiet.

Non-confrontational and trusting, Damian has a large inability to dinstinguish major wrongs from rights. He may think something is a bad idea, but with the right amount of convincing and prodding, he'll go ahead and go through with it anyway. He may act like an anti-social individual and stay off by himself most times, but when approached with a group scenario, Damian is very much the quiet follower and not the quiet leader.

Other: - Very strong bond with his wher.
- Is an only child
- Prefers the company of women/girls to men/boys
- As he was born blind, he uses his wher's mind to see the world in heat-sense

Wher
Name: Damiansk
Color: Green
Task: Assistance Wher
Appearance: Wut
Personality: Whether Damiansk is smart or stupid is hard to tell. Like her rider, she doesn't talk much. What is quite obvious, is her general anger. It seems that Damiansk is always agitated. While she'll follow Damian to the end of the earth (and often guide him there), no one else that she doesn't trust is allowed to come with them.

And, that is, in a sense, where all of Damiansk's mind power goes. She never forgets a face, and once you have lost her trust, it is essentially gone. More tolerant of people than other whers, Damiansk's eyes are almost always a reddish hue. She never takes a break from her watchdog mentality. She has to keep Hers safe. Her full loyalty is for him and him only. She is rarely protective of anyone else, and even when one has her trust, it is easy to lose it again at the slightest of error. Humans get three warnings if they have crossed a line. The thrash of her tail, the growl in the back of her throat, and finally when she spreads her wings. If they still don't listen, she is not indifferent to picking them up by the shirt colar and tossing them away. Dragons and other whers do not get so much luck. They get one warning, and then she charges with lots of teeth and claw action.

It takes years of someone's presence to get a stable non-blooded-bond with Damiansk. Diaman's mother and father, due to their presence since his youth, are two of the exceptions to her 'no-trust' mentality. It only takes seconds for Damiansk to judge. All of her initial judgements are done onsight. 'This one is trouble' or 'This one seems to be nice, but I will watch it'.

And that is how Damiansk refers to everything. There is no "he" or "she". Everything is an it, except for Damian himself, who retains a "He" denomination. On occassion, a human can be referred to as "You" or by their actual name, but mostly 'it' is the preferred pronoun.