Category: Appendix

  • Map of Pern

    I found this map of Pern on the ‘net, have no idea who to credit it to. My Weyr, Kahrain Steppe Weyr, and Singing Waters Hold are not on it, as I have no permission to modify. However, as the Southern Continent is far larger than this map shows, if you imagine a line descending…

  • Who’s who

    10 Feb 25 Who’s who (and what’s what) Arlita, Mardriss’s wife, K’ndar’s sister-in-law Billek, Weyr’s Master Healer B’rant, Weyrlingmaster bronze dragon Banarth B’rost, blue dragon Rath, geologist, journeyman Healer stationed at Cove Hold Healer Hall, bronze fire lizard Kelso Braig, Captain of Arrow, Lindea’s brother Cecilia, Master Harper and currently Lord on Council of Six…

  • Why write about dragons?

    Earlier this year (2019), needing a break from the insanity that is America today, I re-read Anne McCaffrey’s “Dragonriders of Pern”. I’d not read them in 35 years. I’d forgotten what a fascinating world Pern was, and how incredible dragons are. I even found more recent books that fleshed out dragons, their riders, and other…