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Valenia
Location Igen Weyr
Position Mindhealer
Craft Healer
Birthplace Lemos Hold
Played By Mira Furlan
Player Lanti

Description

Slight of build and aging well, Valenia is not physically intimidating, but she has one of those bright-eyed, sharp gazes that holds sway. With the light, her eyes sometimes appear more blue or green. Her hair is long and naturally wavy, now more silver than its original dark brown. Her shoulders and arms are slender, just bony enough to lend angles to her curves.

Her skirt and blouse are of high-quality fabric and stitching and likely bear weavercraft stamps somewhere within their designs. The long-sleeved blouse is a deep indigo reminiscent of clear ocean basins. The understated ruffles ebb and flow like the tide, polished opal buttons glimmer like whitecaps down the center, and brilliant white embroidery adorns the collar, lapels, and cuffs. Valenia's skirt is more modest by comparison, with dark brown linen that hugs her slender hips, only to fall loosely to just above her ankles. The bottom hem bears embroidery in a dark green that dances in vines and leaves, twirling around white rosebuds. A simple, wide leather belt encircles her waist, while stark black boots of supple wherhide protect her feet from cold and heat.

An elegant, double-corded knot of purple and white threaded throughout with gold sits primly on Valenia's shoulder, the double loops and tassel marking her Healer Master's status.


Common Knowledge

  • Due primarily to her mindhealing skills, Valenia achieved her Healer Master's knot shortly after her 45th Turnday and is one of Nowtime Pern's foremost mindhealers.
  • Rumors state it is no coincidence that her craft is requesting to post her to Igen Weyr. It's possible the Healers already at the Weyr made that request.
  • Her specialty is not just mindhealing, but pediatric mindhealing, though she has no children of her own, and at her age, such a possibility is slim to none. She has been a foster mother to several children over the Turns, however.
  • She is said to be a great lover of runners, which is possibly why she requested to be posted to Keroon after she achieved her mastery.
  • Despite her specialty, Val has never shirked her infirmary duties and will gladly jump into the fray in an emergency, though she tends to stick to first aid situations.

Relationships

There are a handful of past foster children, most of them full-grown adults by now. She has also had her fair share of mentees over the Turns, though currently she does not have one assigned. Most of her acquaintances are within the Healercraft, but she seems to prefer to make her career her priority.


History

Valenia is a Nowtimer, Holdborn, and Craftbred and raised, originally from Lemos Hold. She has been a Healer Master for three Turns now, and a practicing mindhealer ever since she first earned her journeyman's knot. Since that time, she's earned herself a reputation as a cracking good mindhealer, something that is as praised and despised as it ever was, here, there, Nowtime or Oldtime. (No really, who doesn't think "psychiatrist" and get a few more descriptors in mind at the same time?) Her best work has been with helping rehabilitate traumatized children, but she won't turn down adult patients.

Previous to Igen, she was posted at Keroon Hold, but given some of the Weyr's recent developments, someone either from the Weyr or from a Healer posted at the Weyr has requested that the Healercraft send a mindhealer to help. Valenia's name came up, and she accepted.

Being a Nowtimer woman in a respectable position, Val knows her "place" within society, and maneuvers within it. Outwardly she is the picture perfect female, and if she hadn't excelled from early on in such a tiny niche of her Craft, she would likely have remained a journeyman. She's kept her views on the Oldtimers to herself and seems to take her Healer oaths absolutely seriously. The patient-doctor confidentiality is an ingrained law for her, and "First Do No Harm" may as well be tattooed on her forehead. She's also excellent at keeping her professional life and personal life separate… mostly by having no personal life. Or so it would seem.

While Valenia will occasionally take infirmary shifts, she is at Igen mostly to do service as a mindhealer. In any non-emergency situation, she will likely refer people to the more normally posted Healers. In a pinch, though, she still remembers her first aid training quite well.


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