Zan's Character Creation

 

Verec

Masterhealer

Gideon Emery

 

Important Details

 

Name: Verec
  Pronounced: VAIR-ick
Nicknames: Ver, Masterhealer, Sir

Primary Rank: Masterhealer
  Secondary Ranks: Master Healer

Place of Birth: Far Cry Hold (Minor hold under Lemos Hold)
Date of Birth: 06.09.691 AL

Partner: Healing Ilaera
 

 

Appearance

 

Eyes: Bright, blue-grey eyes.

Hair: Light brown hair with a bit of a wave, usually kept relatively short. Verec usually has stubble, but he keeps himself well groomed even if not clean shaven. He is starting to grey at the temples.

Height: 5'10"

General Appearance: He has a thin, sharp face with an equally thin nose and high cheekbones. Aging lines have started appearing more prominently on his face.

Verec is generally thin, continuing the sharp look from his face. He is not overly muscular, as he has little reason to be and especially nowadays spends more time solving problems with his head than being active with his body.

Dressing Style: Verec has two rules for clothes: they must be practical and they must be clean. Anything else - stylish, fun, super comfortable, etc - are bonus and not something to consider when choosing an outfit.
 

 

Personality

 

General Character Traits: Verec cares about nothing more than Healing. His daughter is maybe a close second. Maybe. He especially loves teaching young Healers, seeing their determination to succeed and helping them reach that potential.

His temper is a bit legendary, and having Verec yell at you or give an 'I am disappointed in you' speech is a rite of passage for young Healers. He will lay out how everything that went wrong is your fault while simultaneously blaming the entire situation on himself.

Habits/Mannerisms: He will recite steps for various medical procedures to focus, usually when angry to keep himself from getting into arguments too often. Usually done in his head, will sometimes be spoken aloud. May also go through lists of plants and their possible medical uses.

Opinions:
  Threadfall Theory: It will probably be back. They can't prove it's stopped, so no harm beinf prepared.
  Stealing/Kidnapping: Absolutely incensed, the utter nerve of stealing promising Healers! And other crafters, whatever. He doesn't care about those.
    Weryrleader S'kef: N/A
     Firelizards: They're fine, whatever.
    Women's loss of honourifics: N/A
  Return North: Well, now they know where all those healers were disappearing to. He supposes dragonriders are necessary, but he doesn't have to like them or be nice to them.

Likes:
  His Students: Verec is passionate about helping other Healers succeed. He often takes time to teach classes, though he's had less time for that since becoming Masterhealer. He has little patience for those who aren't trying their best, but as long as someone is putting in genuine effort to lear Verec is determined to help them be the best Healer they can be.
  Botany: It was never his focus, but Verec enjoyed learning different herbs and plants and their properties and uses. If he needs a safe place to just think, he will often go to the herb storage rooms. He also grows plenty of plants and herbs in his office.
  Anything with Caffeine: When you're a workaholic, caffeine is great.

Dislikes:
  Patients Who Act Like they Know Things: Honestly, who here spent over 20 turns mastering Healing? Not you, so shut up and do what I tell you.
  Not Cleaning Tools: Anyone who doesn't properly clean Healing supplies or areas ends up receiving his intense displeasure. Keep things sterile, you imbeciles!
  Being Ill: Verec knows how to take care of himself when he's sick, but it's so terribly inconvenient to keep himself from work and he will push the bounds of taking care of himself as far as he can without endangering someone else's health. For example, he may do paperwork long into the night instead of resting but will never go near someone with a compromised immune system when he's sick.

Strengths:
  Coolheaded: Verec keeps a cool head under stress and in urgent circumstances. His great strength is remaining calm and making rational choices when someone's life is on the line.
  Indefatigable: Once he's set his mind to doing something, he will accomplish it. He was tireless as a student, striving to be the best in his age group. As a master, he shows the same tenacity with solving problems and promoting the needs of the Healer Hall.
  Intuitive: There is a reason for all the things Healers do and are taught, but not all situations have been encountered before. Verec is usually able to evaluate an unknown situation and successfully navigate it using knowledge, logic, and instinct.

Flaws:
  Temper: The coolheadedness Verec shows in emergencies is for fear, anxiety, and uncertainty, not anger. It is very easy to get him riled up and snapping at someone.
  Demanding: He expects a lot of people, and doesn't like when what he asks for isn't delivered.
  Proud: Even when Verec knows or realizes he's in the wrong or someone has a better idea, he has a very hard time admitting it.
 

 

History

 

Father: Darell, b.660, d.whenever
Rank: Beastkeeper
Mother: Ciera, b.665, d.whenever
Rank: Wife
Siblings:
2 older brothers, an older sister, and a younger sister
Past Lovers/Partners:  No one serious. He probably slept with a woman or two, but he was always more interested in studying and healing.
Current Lovers/Partners: Healing Ilaera (Wife)
Children:
Vaera [F] b.723
Background Story:
691 AL & Birth: Born the fourth child of Darell and Ciera.
695-699 AL & 4-7 Turns: Had a nice childhood running around on the livestock farm with his siblings.
700 AL & 8 Turns: Helped out his mother while she was pregnant with his younger sister, and helped her care for the baby for the first few months as well, completely fascinated by his baby sister.
702 AL & 10 Turns: While playing in one of the fields, his older brother breaks a limb badly and loses a lot of blood. Verec is sent to get help, but they do not arrive in time and the brother dies. Verec never wants something like that to happen again, and becomes determined to learn how to save people injured like his brother.
703 AL & 11 Turns: It takes some time, but Verec convinces his father to allow him to go to the Healer Hall. They immediately start saving up for their son to go.
705 AL & 13 Turns: After the long trip from Far Cry Hold to Fort hold, Verec starts his apprenticeship as a Healer.
706 AL & 14 Turns: Verec is a diligent student, and all his teachers commend his dedication. He does, however, spend more time with books and classes than with his fellow apprentices and he doesn't easily make friends.
708 AL & 16 Turns: His memory for detail results in Verec often getting assigned to inventory supplies or collect herbs.
710 & 18 Turns: Verec gains a mentor as a Senior Apprentice, with a middle-aged Healer who worked with diseases. The Healer wanted Verec as an assistant due to his attention to detail, which he felt was useful in tracking symptoms and patient histories.
712 AL & 21 Turns: Graduates to Journeyman.
714 & 23 Turns: Verec is assigned as a Healer of a minor hold, under a senior Journeyman there, to give him practical experience. Here Verec's ability to stay calm in a crisis comes into full bloom, and when he periodically returns to Fort to report on his progress, he starts receiving more specialized training.
716 AL & 25 Turns: While traveling between Fort and the minor hold he was assigned to as Healer, Verec meets a woman named Ilaera who is looking for a job. She's a former resident of one of the Weyrs, left behind in the Plague, and at a loss about what to do with her life. Verec helps get her a position in the Healer Hall, as a maid. He gets the details of the Plague from his former mentor, who as a disease expert, was consulted by the Weyrs before they all emptied. Verec thinks it's a tragedy, but does not approve of his mentor's obsession with it; the dragons are gone, there's nothing more for him to do and there are living people for him to focus on.
718 AL & 27 Turns: Verec gets tired of the constant questions about why he's not married yet. He proposes to Ilaera, an arrangement of convenience for both of them (she's 29 and in the holds that draws all sorts of questions). They are not in love, but they are friends and can coexist peacefully so it works for them. She starts traveling with him on his assignments, finding traveling enjoyable and it gives her a break from work.
720 AL & 29 Turns: Both Verec and Ilaera are surprised by how well marriage works for them. It gives them both someone safe to confide in and provide support, something they're both a bit too proud to ask for of other people.
723 AL & 32 Turns: Their first (and only) child is born, a daughter named Vaera. After Vaera's birth, Verec is perfectly happy to come up with a medical reason Ilaera should not have more children. No one bothers them about the issue again.
724 AL & 33 Turns: Verec gains some fame for saving the life of a Lord Holder's son after the teen took a bad fall from a horse.
726 AL & 35 Turns: He continues training, and in recent turns has specialized in trauma and first aid medicines.
727 AL & 36 Turns: More permanently returns to the Healer Hall after constantly moving between Hall and the minor holds he was posted at for turns. The master healers decide to have him teach some of the lower level Healing classes to apprentices, and Verec is surprised to find he's good at it and even enjoys it.
730 AL & 39 Turns: Verec starts teaching more specialized and advanced classes, working more with Journeymen than Apprentices, though he still teaches some introductory level classes.
732 AL & 41 Turns: Obtains mastership.
733 AL & 42 Turns: Is officially asked to remain at the Healer Hall and removed from the active roster of travelling Healers. He remains on call for emergencies.
736 AL & 45 Turns: Appointed Masterhealer. Reasons for his appointment include competence, how much he cares for and prioritizes Healers and their craft, and the regard Lord Holders have for him, maintained after saving the one Lord Holder's son in 724.
738 AL & 47 Turns: His daughter Vaera expresses an interest in becoming a Healer, which Verec supports, though he makes sure she knows how difficult it will be for her and how hard she will have to work. He can't show her any favoritism, after all.

List of Reasons Verec is Not A Fan of Dragonriders:
- Stealing Healers with not even a word (honestly, Quennell would have given them help if they'd asked that didn't involve destroying the careers of promising Healers)
- Leaving so many people high and dry when they fled, namely Ilaera (she was weyrbred, she knew nothing about living as a holder, and she and many other former weyrfolk ended up in dire straits because of it)
- Causing his former mentor to become obsessed with their Plague (the man was a great Healer and some mystery plague kept him from focusing on real and present problems, and arguing about it led their relationship to deteriorate)
- Quennell retired essentially because of them, again 'ruining' a great Healer
- They're so sharding self righteous about everything
- They just took another of his Journeymen???
 

 

Education

 

Craft: Healer
  Specialty: Emergencies/Trauma. Deep cuts, head wounds, major puncture wounds, shock, broken bones where the bone pierces out of the skin, collapsed lungs, severe burns, the like. Stuff that needs to be dealt with fast fast fast.

Craft Rank: Master
  Date Apprenticed: 13, 23.04.705 AL
  Date Tapped: 21, 03.07.712 AL
  Mastership Obtained:41, 15.10.732 AL
 Masterhealer Rank Obtained: 736 AL

Education Details: Verec was an intensely dedicated student and spent almost all of his time trying to be a better Healer and learn as much as possible. He spent part of his apprenticeship doing inventory in the storage rooms, which did not make him hate the place, but instead made it a safe place for him, and started his interest in herbs.

 

RP Sample

 

This was getting ridiculous.

Verec managed to wait until the Healer updating him on the Ista Hatching left his office before he started swearing out loud, frustrated at what he heard. Dragonriders had officially returned and had no need to kidnap Healers to survive anymore, and they kept taking them anyway! Verec knew, rationally, that it was not the dragonriders' intention for the Healers present at their Hatchings to Impress; it ended up being more work for them, likely, as the Impressed Healer had no training around dragons. And he couldn't really blame the Healers who Impressed, could he? Not their faults.

Sighing, Verec grabbed a scrap piece of paper and starting writing up a list of things he needed to do in response to this. One, write to Ebenezar or whatever they were calling him now to check in with him. The young man had been in a few of his classes, and Verec felt a responsibilty towards him as both his teacher and as the Masterhealer.

Next was to figure out a way to keep Journeymen from Impressing when they weren't supposed to. Verec rapped his fingers on his desk, thinking. He didn't know exactly how Impressing dragons worked, though he had been to a decent number of Hatchings by now. He quickly found another scrap piece of paper to start outline all he knew of dragon Hatchings. Looking at his notes, there was one thing that stood out to Verec; all the Candidates seemed to be under thirty. That would work. It should decrease Impressions of Healers and would make sure there were more experience Healers present, so there was a greater chance of saving mauled Candidates (honestly, he should probably start attending Hatchings himself if children were going to be getting torn apart with any frequency. He was one of the best trained to handle that sort of situation). Satisfied this could work, he went back to his to-do list.

All Healers who attend Hatchings must be at least thirty turns old.

 

The Player

 

Character Base Created By:  Zandelion
 Played By: Zandelion
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