Character type: Other Rank: Farmer Age: 39 Gender: Male Sexual Preference: Heterosexual
Current Location: Other
Appearance:
Chak is tall and lean, his strength deceptive due to the wiriness of his muscles and the bagginess of his clothes. He also appears older than he really is, as he began to go grey in his twenties. The Southern sun has also contributed to his grizzled, weatherbeaten appearance by tanning him since childhood till it looks as though he was draped in finely creased soft brown hide instead of human skin.
His eyes are his best feature, a startling shade of green deepset beneath a strong brow. There's usually a smile on his face, displaying wide white teeth.
Personality: It's hard to get to know Chak, not because he's an introvert-- he's not-- but because he's mute. An accident in early childhood cost him his voice, and very nearly his life.
Being handicapped in a society that values strength and health made Chak more wary around strangers than most. He experiences quite often the common belief that those who lack hearing or speech are often short in the intelligence department as well.
Those that know him would laugh to think that there's anything lacking with Chak's mind. He may have gotten only the scantest of educations, but he has plenty of horse-sense. He also has a real gift for farmwork, able to "plant a fencepost and harvest fruit from it."
Anywhere else, he might have been considered no more than an outdoor drudge, but at Callamere he's valued for both who he is and the gifts and skills he possesses. Chak has no lack of friends, and had no problem winning a wife when he decided it was time to do his bit to populate the continent.
History: Chak's parents came South after Chak's accident as a toddler. When they realized that their precious boy would always be a mute, they wanted more for him than the life of a drudge. They were happy in their life as cotholders in Kerroon, but the future for their son would be bleaker there.
Riv and Revai had recently established a new Hold in the Southern continent, so Chal and Kira sold almost everything but the clothes they stood in, to purchase passage to the new frontier.
As they'd hoped, the new Lord and Lady of Callamere welcomed them as cotholders. Chak grew up as the Hold did, doing his part along with his parents to turn it into the prosperous success it has become. Communication evolved without much thought on anyone's part, as Chak naturally developed signs that the others could understand. Too, reading and writing were skills he seized upon eagerly, though his mathematical abilities are a bit shaky to this day for anything but figuring yields and pounds of seed per acre.
Life was happy, but uneventful as life on Pern can be, with the cycles of the seasons and the Passes to mark the time. Chak matured, and at the late age of thirty took a young wife. Anba and his parents get along well, and she's presented them with four grandchildren so far. Chak worships the ground she walks on, and dotes on his children. He is a contented man, perfectly suited to the life he lives, and perfectly happy with the choices he's made.
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