Name: Shandar (Sh'dar)

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Hetero as far as anyone knows. Maybe bi

Rank: Candidate

Skills: He's totally useless. Well, except with his dedication to beliefs. Maybe. And some sort-of-Smith skills.

Appearance: Long and lanky, Shandar is tall and narrow. He has a long face, with short clipped blondish-brown hair that insists on sticking up in unruly spikes. He dutifully keeps these locks cropped relatively close to his head for comfort beneath a helmet…but is very aware that when it is longer, it looks better on him. While his features are not entirely regular (his nose is slightly long, and his eyes could be sworn to be different colors) he is certainly not ugly. All the same, that tousled, longer hair adds something to him when he lets it get that long. His eyes are rather peculiar: The left is a silvery blue, while the right is green-gray; more on the gray side. This is one tall dragonrider, reaching nearly 6’5. Gawky, he seems not to have grown out of his boyish frame yet, still thin and rather narrow shoulders, with that awkward sort of stance despite his adult confidence. He is muscular in a lean sort of way, with a long stride and well practiced, very quick run when he needs to. He is long legged and boasts an adolescent sort of grace in movements, despite the fact that he’s definitely fully grown. Fair, he is slightly freckled, and when in thought is in the habit of chewing on his bottom lip. He dresses casually, and abhors formal affairs mainly because it means that he has to dress up. When he can, he wears a variation of plain tunics and trousers, with the same belt and sturdy brown boots.

Personality: Withdrawn and serious, Shandar is rather easily flustered but has perfected the art of keeping it to himself. He is undeniably proud, and has been from the time he first learned to speak. As a child, he refused to ever acknowledge defeat, and even now as an adult he has a difficult time backing down when there is nothing else he can do. At the same time, he is insanely modest, and rather shy. He hates spending too much time with unfamiliar people, and arriving late for anything drives him crazy. Shandar would