You walk into the dark caverns of the Historian and look around. A tall man walks into the cavern holding a huge stack of books that cover his face and prevents him from seeing very well. He sets the books down on the near by table and looks up at you. "Hello, my name's Cron, I'm the Historian of Sapphire Weyr. I guess you've come to learn about Sapphire Weyr. Well, then you better get comfortable, Sapphire Weyr has a huge history behind it."

"Long ago, when Pern was just starting to understand the horrible effects of thread and the Red Star, a group of dragons and their riders went searching for a good place to start another weyr. The group consisted of one queen, 5 bronzes, 10 browns, 15 blues, and 20 greens. That may seem like a lot when it comes to dragons, but to starts a new weyr it was very small. They flew over every part of Pern they could, thinking they'll never find a suitable spot. But, just as they were about to turn and start back, the queen spotted an old volcano. It was huge, perfect for starting a new Weyr. And warm too, since it was close to the equater. In the middle of the weyrbowl, a deep, sparkling blue lake provided a wonderful sorce of water and a place for the dragons to bathe. So, the got stone carvers and started carving out the old volcano. The weyr did very well, and the dragon population grew very large. But there still wasn't a name for the Weyr yet. That all changed when one of the bronzes was playing in the lake and noticed something glittering at the bottom. He dove down to see what it was and brought it to the surface. It was a huge sapphire. Soon, they found out the entire Weyr was full of sapphires and could be found anywhere you dug a hole in the ground. The queen and her rider decided to name the weyr Sapphire Weyr."

"About 20 turns ago, a young and beautiful, yet not so bright woman impressed the newest queen in Sapphire Weyr. The old queen, Rallith, soon after died in a horrific accident while going between. So, the little queen had to take over. Concia, her rider, was very beautiful, she had long red hair and blue eyes, her figure was perfect, and every one loved her, all the men, that is. Although her beauty and populatity over the men, Concia wasn't a very smart woman. She let her queen, Menith, stuff herself and sleep all day, until finally Concia had take the shape and mind set of her dying queen. In Menith's last clucth, a huge, golden egg lay in the center of the others. The dying queen didn't have the strenght to guard it any longer."

During the search for girls to impress the little queen, F'lner, blue rider of Gelmith, had passed over the Harperhall, where young Jewel was apprentice. He stopped to talk to the MasterHarper Robinton when Gelmith waddled over to the small girl and nudged her, knocking her over. F'lner was surprised at his big blue, until he told him that the girl would be a great dragonrider. The Masterharper was very pleased with Jewel, and let F'lner take her to Sapphire Weyr. She was a very creative young girl too, she spent the few sevendays waiting for the eggs to hatch painting the walls of her weyr blue and green. She also painted some of the other candidates weyrs too. Finally, when the eggs were about to hatch, Jewel and the others were rushed down to the hatching grounds."

"Jewel was so excited, but sadly she hadn't impressed yet, and all but two of the eggs had hatched. The littler egg hatched and the little blue that came from it scarmbled to a boy next to her. Then, a split in the golden egg appeared. It popped open, and out of it came not one huge gold queen, but two huge green dragons. The littler green ran to a girl next to Jewel and impression had been made. The bigger green, sparkling slightly golden, ran to Jewel and told her her name was Rith."

"The little green was growing fast, and was becoming huge for a dragon of it's color. It did sparkle golden though, even though the weyrleader and dying weyrwoman thought it would only do that at it's hatching. It was soon determinded that little Rith had met to be a queen, but the dying queen hadn't the strenght to produce the color for the little one. And Rith was a twin of Reth, the other little green. Rith kept growing and growing until she was full grown, and the size of a large gold. When Rith had finally grown completely, the dying queen of the weyr had breathed her last breath, and both weyrwoman and queen had died, and Jewel had become Weyrwoman"

"Rith had matured completely, and was ready to rise for the first time. She had taken on such a golden glow, she looked half green half gold. After blooding four herd beasts and a wherry, she took to the air, followed closely by three bronzes and one huge brown. The first two bronzes got into a scawble and fell to the ground. The remaining bronze and brown kept after Rith closely. She swirled around them playfully, calling for them to come closer. The bronze gave up and swooped to the ground. The brown, Clad's Silitonith, grabbed Rith from above and wrapped his neck around hers. On the ground, the bronze riders left Jewel and Clad alone. The next day, Clad asked Jewel to marry him, and she agreed."

"Along with being as big as a gold, and having gold sparkles, Rith also laid eggs like a gold. She produced a gold and 6 bronzes in her first clutch. Jewel was so proud of her."

"Well, that's all of the Weyr history I can tell you, but I know there will be much more happening soon."

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