Nate's pages - originally written around 2000

Nate is a boy of 14, tall and slender verging on skinny. He is about 5'10" already and will grow taller but not more bulky. He has remarkably white skin, strong black hair and dark brown eyes. His hair hangs in loose, limp strands to his shoulders, and he rarely bothers to tie it back. He has a long, straight face with a long straight nose, but he is handsome none the less.

His mind is as sharp as his hair isn't. He catches on to things easily, everything from hunting to mechanical engineering. His toes are about as flexible as his fingers and he has been known to hold things in them too. He is a loving, caring boy, but knows that riding dragons requires more than that, and he is ready to devote time and effort, and all his heart, to it.

Nate has many skills that Smithcraft offers, but also has a very good background in history and such as he was raised by exactly a Smithcrafter father and Harper mother. He has an excellent memory, and uses it to memorize tactics and techniques, as well as names and faces. He will have a strong ability with betweening.

Nate could do equally well on a Brown or Bronze, though fit for his somewhat subversive and subtle personality a Blue might just do it too. He would prove his abilities on any color dragon. Nate had been Searched as a candidate at Sapphire Weyr! Go there and check out the beautiful work there, now he has Impressed, read below!

After what appeared to be an eternity, Nate and Oni met. There were some sparks, to be sure. The girl was so strong willed, and the boy so strong witted, that they had to hit it off.

"I am SO sick of waiting," Oni said, muttering a curse below her breath.

"Me too," Nate agreed, "but I haven't even been here as long as you. What are you going to do when you've impressed?"

"Other than ride a dragon for the rest of my life?" Oni grinned, "I'm going to head back to the Protectorate. I've got permission to do it, too. I've seen you at Dawnlight Hold, haven't I?"

Nate grinned, and nodded.

"I'm hoping that Shard will pick me and my dragon as wing seconds, if he's going to lead his wing... I mean, he's in charge of the place, but he's still only got a blue dragon..."

"Only a blue," Oni grunted, "what's 'only' about that? Neither of us HAS a dragon, remember? Once we're off the sands, get back to me on that!"

Once the eggs hardened and the dragons began to hum above the weyr to announce their hatching, Oni and Nate ran to the hatching sands. It was so hot! Everyone in the stands had a little fan or waved their hand to cool themselves off.

"I'd love to have some ice cold klah about now..." Nate muttered. Then, the first egg hatched, abruptly showing off a big bronze! A boy named Veitar impressed him, and the show was on!

But it was a long time coming, for Nate! The other boys were found by blues and browns, the girls had their share of greens and even the queen egg hatched to impress... Nate and Oni stood hoping that they were going to be chosen at all, let alone by something as beautiful as the bronze walking up...

Right up to Nate he walked, until the dragon pushed his nose under Nate's elbow!

It is I, your beautiful partner. Do you not think that I ought to eat soon? It is just perfect in here, don't you think? How will you ride me if you don't get me something to eat?

Nataniel was dumbstruck. He halfway opened his mouth to speak but all that came out was a name...

"Tikith!"

Tikith is an adult now, and with that growth comes a tremendous responsibility! As a bronze, he is more apt to fly a gold, and also far more likely to want the spot he's been given on Shard's Spines wing -- he's the wing second for Shard!

But that is only an honor guard, and N'ate and Tikith spent time in the Stone Fury wing for a while, but that group of guys just wasn't right for the pair. They elected to move to the Uplifted Spirits wing, but then later, after a clutch at Talor Cliff left them with new people on great dragons, N'ate decided to make some changes.

He gathered his wing friends, and they cornered Ash'r and Daverin to decide if they were right for their new wing, which turned out just perfectly! The Screw Loose Wing is led by N'ate, no surprise there!