Loves wearing leather pants and leather jackets, as well as loose, flowy shirts. He's never lost his Harper trained flair for the dramatic, and it shows in his choice of clothing.

703 AL & Birth: Jiershom was born, the second child and first son of a Harper and his wife, a kitchen drudge. His older sister, Lashell, was overjoyed to have a sibling.
Year & Age:
706 AL & 3 Turns: Larshom and Jeriel's third child is born, a daughter named Lariell. Young Jiershom loves his tiny sister and spends most of his time with her.
708 AL & 5 Turns: Jhom, Jiershom's first brother is born. He continues to spend most of his time with his siblings.
710 AL & 7 Turns: Jiershom's singing and storytelling talent is discovered by his mother and the other women who watch the children, as he often sings to his siblings to help the sleep or calm them down, as well as making up new songs or stories when he runs out of ones he's heard.
711 AL & 8 Turns: An illness sweeps through the Hall, and while it is rarely fatal Jeriel hides away her children to keep them from getting ill for about 2 months. Jiershom has plenty of time to practice singing and storytelling with his captive sibling audience. He is often joined by his elder sister, Lashell, in his efforts, as she is also a naturally talented singer.
713 AL & 10 Turns: Lashell, now 12 turns old, wants to be apprenticed. With some hesitation, this is allowed, mostly due to the fact she has a beautiful singing voice and their father is a master Harper.
715 AL & 12 Turns: Jiershom was apprenticed as soon as he was old enough, as he had been shown to have a talent for the craft. He doesn't know many of the other apprentices well, as he spent most of his time with his siblings. It takes little time for him to figure out how to make friends due to his genial nature.
716 AL & 13 Turns: By the end of the year, all dragonriders (to the North's knowledge) are dead or gone. Jiershom, who liked many of the songs about dragonriders, is saddened by this, but life goes on. He had to learn a song about it, along with the rest of the Jr. Apprentices in the apprentice choir.
718 AL & 15 Turns: An older Harper who works as a scribe takes Jiershom under his wing and Jiershom becomes a Sr. Apprentice. He spends a lot of time helping the older Harper going through recorded texts and re-writing them where necessary (Jiershom did not do the writing, as his penmanship was not trusted just yet, he did the sorting of the documents). From this experience, Jiershom learned a lot of songs and stories, including older, less well known ones.
719 AL & 16 Turns: Sometime over the turn Jiershom starts working with the youngest apprentices, helping them get adjusted to apprenticeship and teaching them various studying techniques and the like. Several master Harpers take note.
722 AL & 19 Turns: His older sister Lashell has been an apprentice for 9 turns. When questioned, the masters show no interest in promoting her to journeyman any time soon. They plan on keeping her as an apprentice for at least another 5 turns. Incensed, Lashell leaves the Hall. The family is shaken, with Jeriel blaming her husband for not doing enough to keep their daughter around (assuming that his status as a master gave him some say in the situation) and Larshom claiming that the masters make decisions based on talent and facts. The sibling are split, with Lariell strongly disavowing their sister's actions, while Jhom (now a Sr. Apprentice, and higher ranked than his elder sister ) supported her choice. Jiershom was conflicted, not agreeing with Lashell's choice to leave, but thinking that maybe her work and training should have been more acknowledged. Relationships within the family fray a bit, as everyone takes sides.
723 AL & 20 Turns: Jiershom graduates his apprenticeship and is now a Jr. Journeyman. Due to the masters noticing his propensity for teaching, he is almost immediately asked to be a teacher, and go around between Holds and towns to make sure all children are receiving at least a basic education, and children of talent are sent to the Hall. He is somewhat happy to escape his family, still feuding in the wake of Lashell's departure.
724-729 & 21-26 Turns: Traveling and teaching becomes Jiershom's life. He returns at least once a turn to the Harper Hall to check in, learn any news or new songs he hasn't picked up already, and visit his friends, family, and former mentor. He has a few short relationships and one-night-stands in these years, mostly with women but the occasional well concealed tryst with another man.

Wherever he went, he kept an eye out for Lashell, but never found her, or even word of her.
730 AL & 27 Turns: While traveling between outcrop villages Jiershom is kidnapped/Stolen by I'shan and brought to Katila on the Southern Continent. Jiershom is a bit put out by this, but in addition to his Candidacy the dragonriders are perfectly happy to allow him to teach the children of Katila the teaching songs and the other general education given by Harpers on the Northern Continent, so he is somewhat appeased by this. He hopes the riders will eventually move North again.
731 AL & 28 Turns: Jiershom gets used to life in Katila, and he is one of the Stolen who is more kindly inclined towards the dragonriders. He has no expectations as to Impressing a dragon, but he does have a bit of hope that he will. He bonds to a blue firelizard in this time, and he decides he is happy with his firelizard, even if he never Impresses a dragon.
732 AL & 29 Turns: Halfway through the turn, he Impresses to green Siolilth and becomes J'shom. He loves his young dragon.
734 AL & 31 Turns: J'shom and Siolilth return North, which makes J'shom happy; he has the chance to see his family and old friends, as well as get caught up on all the new songs composed while he was 'away.' He does, sadly, learn that his father has died while he was down South, which brought up complicated feelings for J'shom, having not been there for his father.
735 AL & 32 Turns: Siolilth's talent for Searching is discovered, and the pair are promoted to searchriders now that they have returned North and have resumed regular Searching.
736-739 AL & 33-36 Turns: The next few turns are spent mostly Searching and assisting in teaching weyrbrats. He does buy himself a very fancy standing harp sometime 738 or 739, using a very large percentage of the marks he makes as a greenrider.
741 AL & 38 Turns : Gets together with B'kit at the beginning of the Turn.