Image Credits: Lethe

Name: Goraf (G'raf) Rao
Gender: Male, bi
Age: 21
Origin: Blackstone
Rank: Brown caste (mostly ignored at Blackstone)
Family: Father brownrider Raffa, mother navigator Gunda; brother Growl, two unknown sisters (haven't ever detailed them but I likely will eventually)
Other Relations: Girlfriend (will become wife) Xee, son Ziggy, daughter Stardust (yup, they're like that)
Height: 5'10"
Build: Muscular but not really ripped
Hair: very black, shaggy, kept short
Eyes: green, a forest color, without visible whites or pupils, but he still sees just fine
Appearance: yellowish tan skin, handsome and charmingly animated
Genetic Oddities: he seems to have an unusually strong resistance to the effects of drugs and alcohol, so he does drink and imbibe a lot more than anyone else...

Standing At: Shigan Weyr
Dragon: Green Chiketh
Creation Date/Updated: (originally early 2000s, updated 7.3.22)
Skills / Professional Training - navigator and star-chart maker, along with business and merchantry skills
Personality - charming, strong willed, yet he feels very casual ... until he's not. When he has to be 'serious' he really, really is, and anyone who knows him takes that as a cue to also straighten up and listen to whatever's going on
History and Events (originally written early 2000s so it's just copied here)
Goraf Rao, one of the inheritors of the Rao Xuan lands and technologies, is a fine young man. Standing around 5'10, and looking just less than muscular, he's sure that he will eventually bond to a dragon. At the age of 21, Goraf has already sired at least two children, Ziggy and Stardust, and hopes that if he bonds both the boy and girl as well as their mother Xee will be allowed to live with him and be exposed to dragon kind.

Goraf has a quiet, yet commanding voice. It is deep and sensuous, not threatening. But when combined with his eerie all-green eyes and little smirk, the only way to tell if he's joking is by the squinching of his eyes.

He jokes a lot. He isn't a happy-go-lucky type, but he has done his share of pranks and loves a good rousing song in a drunken stupor.

Goraf has a deal with the local Blackstone healers, for hangover medicines.

Born to a pair of navigators, his father Raffa had been bonded to a dragon but the brown managed to get so hurt as an adolescent that he never flew against threadfall. The dragon still lives, but Raffa's name was never shortened because he cannot actually ride the dragon. Goraf always loved going to see the brown, helping bathe and feed him, but he knows that the true dragon riders must have healthy, flying beasts below them.

Goraf has three siblings, two of them sisters, all younger than he. They are expected to help him build his empire, should he choose to do so.

That's the ongoing joke, see... Rao and Xuan family members always have been found to help one another, their lands bordering the high peaks where Blackstone Caer now stands (they used to be even higher, but flat steppes) are very fertile but not for foodstuffs -- they run mines and ore refineries, making metals for smithy work. They do not strip mine, all the ore is very carefully extracted, and the surface of the land they own is still very beautiful. Goraf is proud of his family for that.
 
Dragon

Name: Chiketh
Gender: Female
SizeClass: Green /Shoulder/Length: 6'9" at shoulder
Colors: Green-Blue
Features:
Powers: Assisted Firebreath, Telepathy, Teleportation
Parentage:
Origin: Shigan Weyr hatching 1 (had been at Beach Shards for a long time)
Other Info: (from hatching) A velvety dark green-blue prowled the outskirts of the candidates, nipping at ankles with eyes whirling a mischievous green until she reached Goraf and pounced . The knocked the two of them to the ground in a tussle of limbs and bright colors until she was left bouncing on Goraf's chest.

:: I got you! :: she giggled. :: I'm Chiketh and now you're mine forever. ::

Goraf wrestled her off, laughing. "And you're mine, too."

:: Yup! ::

Personality:
Chiketh loves nothing more than having fun . She's upbeat, charismatic, and always looking for the next great adventure. She hates stagnation and being forced to remain in one place for long, so any travelling she gets to do with Goraf is just the greatest . Chiketh's easy-going nature and people-pleasing personality make her an affable companion and quick to form friendships. She loves a good joke and doesn't take life too seriously. She knows when to buckle up and get her war face on, but the little stuff? Laugh it off and carry on. While she doesn't look it, she's wildly courageous and always willing to stand up for those who need it. She'll gleefully step forward and handle a difficult or dangerous job everyone else refuses.

*** hatchling and growth here***