Persona Profile: Bhervehan

Writer: Mikel

Name: Bhervehan
Age: 63
Birthday: m12 d26
Rank: Hall Resident
Location: Vintner Hall, Amber Hills Hold
Job: Tavern Master
Craft: Vintner
Craft Rank: Master
Speciality: Brew Master

Physical Description of Persona:
Bhervehan is a big man. Standing well over six feet tall, height is not the only largeness about him. Called 'Keg' by the Journeymen as he rose through the ranks because of his resemblence to the kegs that held the Hall's beer. His thin fringe of grey hair is held back by a wooden ring.

In his tavern he moves freely about. However when walking any distance he makes use of a walking stick, beautifully carved in black wood. Reluctant to speak of the injury that crippled his knee, all he will say of it is that had a bearing on his choice of specialization. "Grapes stamped with a limp taste odd, so I became a brewer."

Emotional Description of Persona:
: Bhervehan is the consumate inn keeper. Once you have been in his tavern, he remembers everything about you; your name; your drink or your favorite meal. Outside the tavern, he is equally friendly, and out going. However, outside the the tavern, he is lucky to remember his own name, or his way back to the tavern. Luckily he rarely leaves the Tavern without Winda, his eldest daughter, whom he jokingly refers to as "his life, and his memory".

Bhervehan watches over his staff and stock like a brooded Gold. One of the few things that will give rise to his temper is some one mistreating his staff, or meddling with the small batches of beer he personally brews just for the tavern's patrons.

History of Persona:
: Born and raised in the back corridor of Garnet Valley Hold, Bhervehan never knew who his father was until the day he was apprentised to the Vintner Hall. That was when his mother informed him that his father was an unnamed brownrider who promised his mother much, but vanished to his Weyr after his night's pleasure.

His first friend at the Hall was a young lad from the Hall, who had the cot next to his. From the start Bhervehan and Fielton shared a love of the craft, as well as a knack for getting into just enough trouble to have fun, but not risk their apprentiship.

Amazingly enough both boys were able to walk the tables to receive their Journeyman's knots.

During his last year as an apprentice, Bhervehan helping to move casks of wine from the Hall's cellars to the courtyard where a half wing of weyrlings was standing by to take some wine and beer back to the Weyr. Feilton had remarked to Bhervehan that the brownrider sheparding the weyrlings looked enough like Bhervehan to be his da. Bhervehan agreed but then turned sullen, while constantly keeping an eye on that rider.

When the last of the casks was stacked in the courtyard, the rider, atop his Brown, took to wing, to oversee the loading of the casks onto the backs of the young dragons. The downdraft of the browns first mighty sweep knocked over one pile of casks, crushing Bhervehan's leg. The brownrider shouted back that they had best be careful with the Weyr's wine, but otherwise paid no heed to the injured boy.

Bhervehan spent six sevendays in the Hall's infirmary before he was able to walk again, and then only with aid. Through hard work and sheer stubbornness and tenacity He walked the tables in time with his friend. Since that day, though, he has held a silent dislike of riders, and never regained full mobility in that leg.

Unlike his friend, Bhervehan's gifts lead him towards brewing, rather than winemaking. It was during a turn at Sapphire Meadow Hold that Bhervehan first met Junia, the daughter of the Hold's Brewmaster.

After Bhervehan moved on to his next posting, he and Junia maintained a continuous correspondence. When he achieved his Master's knots, he returned to Sapphire Meadows, where he married Junia and they started a family.

Bhervehan had served as brewmaster at a number of locations before he was offered the chance to start a new tavern at Topaz Sea Hold shortly after Thread returned. It was in his last turn at Topaz Sea Hold that Junia died when she was caught in a collapsed cellar during the hurricane that leveled the hold.

He was still serving there, trying to rebuild the tavern when Hallmaster Feilton summoned him back to the Vintner Hall with an offer he could not refuse

Family and Friends
Junvia, 21, Junior Apprentice Harper, Harper Hall, Emerald Falls Hold (Daughter)
Junia, 59, Deceased (Wife)
Winda, 30, Resident (Daughter)
Bhervia, 26, Vintner / Apprentice (Son)

Approved: December 29th 2006
Last updated: March 22nd 2008

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Persona Profile: Bhervehan