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Ruatha Hold Fort Weyr Southern Weyr

Mardra was Senior Oldtimer Weyrwoman at Fort Weyr during the Eighth Pass. After she came forward to the Ninth Pass, she continued to serve as Senior Weyrwoman at Ford Weyr, but only until her exile to Southern Weyr. Her dragon was Loranth and her weyrmate was T'ron.

Biography[]

Early Life[]

Mardra was born at Ruatha Hold during the Eighth Pass to the Lord Holder of Ruatha. After she impressed Loranth, she became Senior Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr.

At Fort Weyr[]

When Lessa suddenly emerged from between into Ruatha, the Lord Holder was surprised out of his wits; but, he quickly sent for Mardra at Fort Weyr. Mardra, T'ron and her father all agreed to keep Lessa's visit a secret and to arrange for the Ruatha tapestry to be commissioned.

Due to their shared lineage, Mardra and Lessa were on friendly terms when they first came forward in Time to the Ninth Pass. However, Mardra soon came to actively hate Lessa for renouncing her claim to Ruatha. While Mardra periodically visited Ruatha Hold, neither young Jaxom nor Lord Warder Lytol were eager to see her, due to her snide comments.

Mardra witnessed the duel between her weyrmate T'ron and Benden Weyr's weyrleader F'lar. After F'lar won the duel, then exiled everyone who would not look to Benden for leadership to the Southern Continent, Mardra contested F’lar’s authority to exile them. But, her protests fell on the deaf ears of the determined front of Robinton, Larad, Fandarel, Lords Sangel and Groghe.

At Southern Weyr[]

At Southern Weyr, Mardra became the most senior Weyrwoman, splitting duties with former High Reaches Weyrwoman Merika. Since Mardra did not burn all her bridges to the north, she continued to trade with Lord Holder Meron of Nabol Hold. She usually received fine northern goods while Meron received fire-lizard eggs, which turned out to be primarily green, blue and brown fire-lizards. In Dragon's Code, when T'ron learns that Mardra was involved with the stealing of Ramoth's queen egg, he takes all male dragons and their riders to an undisclosed location.

Appearance, personality and traits[]

In Dragonflight, Mardra was described as a sympathetic woman and was the one who helped Lessa while the latter was recovering from her arduous and infamous flight between. Later, in Dragonquest, Mardra grew bitter and hard, culminating in her leaving the north with fellow Oldtimers T'kul and T'ron.

In Dragondrums she was briefly mentioned in a conversation between two southern dragonriders, overheard by Piemur. They complained that she was furious over the loss of the contents of a sack of fine cloth. This served to underline that the once sympathetic woman had grown bitter and ill-tempered.

When T'kul died, after having attempted to murder F'lar in grief-madness after losing his dragon, she was described as sobbing hysterically in a show of grief that disgusted Toric, who knew how often she had quarrelled with T’kul.

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