Where do your allegiences lie?

[Caufar Weyr]

A Weyrwoman and her gold lost to childbirth... A Weyrleader retired into seclusion with his grief... One clutch on the sands, with another gold on the verge of rising... A Weyr that lies in turmoil, leaderless, eyed with trepidation by all of Pern... Welcome to Caufar, my friends.

Weyrwoman Seramid is dead. Though not old, her body could not handle the birth of her child, an event that also left the infant in the cold clutches of death. The Weyr mourned deeply, but not just because they'd lost a beloved leader. With Seramid's death, they also lost their stability; K'nel, the former Weyrleader, fled to Telgar in his grief. Traditionally, the Junior Queenrider and her Junior Weyrleader would step up in the interim, waiting for the next queen to rise, for things to settle into a new routine.

Tradition, it seems, is being challenged. Belarth is bound to the Hatching Grounds, having clutched quite literally the night before the tragedy, and her rider, Megrienne, feels that it entitles her to a more permanent position. There are those that agree; after all, the only other gold of mating age is a scant Turn out of Weyrlinghood. Megrienne has more experience in leading a Weyr than Araceli and her golden Alorioth, and despite bearing the blame of chasing out the former Weyrleader, she is a popular figure.

Others, though, demand that tradition be upheld. Alorioth will undoubtedly be the first gold to rise, and Araceli has much support from the Weyrfolk. She and her queen are Caufaran-bred, after all, while Megrienne and Belarth are Istan transfers. There is some concern, however, as to her preference of partners. Her current Junior Weyrleader can't stand her, nor she him, but they generally prefer T'brias and his Caufaran-born bronze Ahanarith over the transferred F'trik and his brown Marshanth, Megrienne's current Junior. Of course, the Weyrfolk can gossip for hours about her relationship with bronze rider I'vrae, thinking his Voltureth will be the next winner... which again is cause for complaint, as they are from the same clutch that hatched Alorioth.

Who will emerge as Caufar's new leading pair? Alorioth is beginning to glow, but none can discount Megrienne's considerable talents of manipulation. Will she be able to convince the Conclave to permanently instill her as Weyrwoman of Caufar, thereby disregarding tradition?

Caufar Weyr is a new, alternate Tenth Pass Weyr, set with play beginning in the 30th Turn of the Pass, and we are looking for fresh, inspired and inspiring members to come and play along with us in a game rife with political turmoil and a wide variety of character interactions. If this sounds like something you might like to get involved with, here's some basic info to let you know what we're all about.

- We are Tenth Pass, as previously stated, in which AIVAS was not discovered, so the majority of events in books published after Renegades of Pern (including Todd's material) is not canon for us.
- We are located on the Southern Continent, a specific map is available on our site.
- We use an online forum-based posting format for our writing.
- We allow for women to impress gold, green, blue, and VERY RARELY brown (more detailed Impression info is available at our site).

Curious? Questions? Feel free to drop by and have a look around, check things out for yourself, and come meet the crowd.

Caufar Weyr

[Caufar Weyr]

Two queens and their riders dead in a span of four months. One, the former Weyrwoman Seramid. The other, upstart Junior Queen Megrienne and her Belarth, dead in a freak flamethrower accident. Most are content to let it stand as an accident, but there are some who whisper words of conspiracy; after all, Megrienne sought to have I'vrae of bronze Voltureth and Araceli with her golden Alorioth removed from their positions as Leaders of Caufar Weyr. While she inevitably failed in her attempt, her claims of ignorance against the two were enough to draw the eyes of all the Weyrs of Pern to Caufar, causing them to scrutinize the Weyr intensely.

These rumors are just that; rumors. There was not enough left of the faulty flamethrower to adequately determine just why it exploded, killing not only Megrienne, but one of Caufar's candidates who was nearby to assist the Queenrider in her pre-'Fall checklist. Megrienne's death served no purpose to better anyone... and had quite the opposite effect that anyone who wanted to kill her would have hoped for. The Junior queen trade scheduled for Caufar's Anodelle and her Sylfaeth and Fort's Gervaine and Heralith once both pairs had graduated was called off, and Caufar's request for a temporary junior queen has been denied, leaving the Weyr with only two queens: one not even graduated from weyrlinghood, and the second, its Senior, not even four turns of age.

But all hope is not lost. On the very same day that Megrienne died, sending Belarth into the cold, dark embrace of between, the now Weyr-bound Alorioth took to the hatching sands. While Caufar's Wings battled Thread over Darksea Hold, the Senior Queen laid a clutch of thirty eggs. Not the largest clutch in Caufar's history, of course, but a healthy number nonetheless.

Among that number, distanced slightly from its future brothers and sisters, lay a glowing queen egg on a pedastle of sand.

Now the weyrfolk wait with bated breath. The queen egg is not the seasoned adult they need, but it speaks of a future, of hope for Caufar Weyr in these trying times. The twenty-nine eggs that sit beside it hold the fate of twenty-nine candidates securely in their unhatched claws; will you be one of them? Could you, perhaps, even be the one person that golden beauty will be looking for?

Only one way to find out.

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