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Daav yos'Phelium, the 85th Delm of Clan Korval

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Description[]

  • Dark hair (worn in a braid when younger), intense dark eyes, wiry and lanky
“The man in the portrait was. . .feral. His eyes were fierce and black under well-marked brows; his lean face was hard; his mouth firm, and his chin decided. His hair— Jen Sar had kept his greying hair cut short— this man’s hair, so dark a brown that it might have been black, had been braided and let to hang over his left shoulder. From his right ear swung an ornament of silver wire, twisted into a primitive design." [1]
  • Silver Earring:
“This certifies my place as a son in the tent of the Grandmother of the Tribe of Mun, whose name, we would say, is 'Rains-in-the-Desert,' though I rather think 'Rockflower' a closer fit."[2]
  • As an elder scholar, about age 68, he was going gray with a slight pudge in his middle [3]
"Visible through that window was a lean young man lying on a pale mat, his tender flesh uniformly golden, showing neither scar or mar. His nose and his face alike were long, the mouth perhaps a bit thin, lips presently pressed into a firm line. The eyebrows were strong; dark, like the thick lashes that lay lightly along his cheek. Short, dark hair covered his head like a tight-fitting velvet cap; his ears were shapely." [4]

Loud, yet nigh invisible[]

To a Healers's sight Daav is too "loud" and sometimes his presence dismays[5], but he can use a method (similar to the Scout rainbow) he learned from a grandmother of a tribe of hunter-gatherers, who taught him to be still.[6]

He taught his daughter Theo Waitley to be still. She was nearly invisible on Frenzel, at Chaliceworks:[7]

“They really didn’t like it when I said I’d learned how to be invisible from Father. Apparently men aren’t supposed to know anything.”[8]

Other Names / Titles[]

Neogenesis[]

  • Kor Vid yos’Phelium - counted as distant cousin (Neogenesis & Accepting the Lance)
  • Daaneka tey’Doshi - counted as distant cousin

Notable Acts[]

Daav’s POV Mouse & Dragon excerpt
  • Investigated mysterious disappearances of pilots at Low Port (see Mouse and Dragon and The Beggar King)
  • Moved to Delgado to teach genetics for 20-some years, to achieve Balance— and for other reasons:
"Daav would do nothing for one reason when he could do it for six."[15]
“Er Thom’s cha’leket had left Liad, heart-reft and half-alive, to draw the enemies of Korval away from the clan.” - [16]

Kin[]

Excerpt Local Custom Kareen Daav

excerpt, Local Custom

"Korval-pernard’i had never written Daav out of the clan book, nor made any notation of a death. . ."[21]

Friends[]

Given Daav's comm code[]

Kareen calling warning light

excerpt, Daughter of Dragons

"Daav yos'Phelium's blinking blue "Kareen warning" light on the kitchen unit" [10]

Jen Sar Kiladi[]

Juntavas Announcement Carpe Diem & Breath’s Duty

Gone Fishin’

  • Alternate persona of Daav yos'Phelium furthering Balance for his lifemate's death.
  • Kamele Waitley's onagrata and Theo Waitley's father.
  • The persona of Jen Sar Kiladi is based on a wager started nearly fifteen standards before Daav and Aelliana met.
  • Scholar Kiladi originates upon a Terran world with a lesser Liaden population. In his supplication letter to Dobrin Univeristy on planet Bontemp he wrote that this early living astride two cultures was what first excited his interest in the field of cultural genetics. An interest that has only deepened with his degrees in comparative linguistics and dynamics of diaspora. He has taken all his degrees at Terran universities. Kiladi’s peers describe him as brilliant, radical, original, but also as a popinjay, a recluse, and a dangerous madman. He was awarded his third degree by the Guardians of Knowledge of Dobrin University. [23][24]
  • Barvenna -- A "very Terran" world. Jen Sar Kiladi was a grad student there, or so his paper trail says.[25]
  • When Aelliana wanted to "meet" Jen Sar Kiladi, Daav "changed" for her into Scholar Kiladi. Aelliana described that, "like Daav, Kiladi was an upright man, proud withoud being prideful. It seemed, that he was not quite so tall as Daav, nor, when he opened his eyes, so bold or ascertaining in his glances. His step was light, but by no means silent, his carriage easy, even graceful, but it did not cry our "Pilot!" nor even whisper "Scout."" Afterwards Aelliana asked Daav how long he can sustain this. He answered: "I can support it more easily at length, it becomes worn in, like a favorite sweater."[23](is this ability a heritage of Cantra yos'Phelium's aelantaza[26] abilities? -"They convince other people because they are convinced themselves."[26])
  • Even before Daav left Liad to Balance Aelliana's death, he was teaching students, for example, at Searston University.[27]
  • Gallowglass Chair of the Department and Professor of Cultural Genetics at the University of Delgado.
  • a scholar recently awarded his third degree by the Guardians of Knowledge of Dobrin University.
  • Expert in the following fields: comparative linguistics, diaspora dynamics, cultural genetics
  • Kamele Waitley describes Jen Sar as her onagrata, a challenging scholar, stimulating companion, surprising lover, and affectionate role-mate for her daughter.

References[]

  1. Dragon in Exile
  2. Scout’s Progress chapter 20
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Breath’s Duty
  4. Dragon Ship
  5. Mouse and Dragon, ch 20
  6. Mouse and Dragon, ch 2
  7. Dragon Ship, chapter 8, Frenzel: Chaliceworks Aggregations
  8. Neogenesis, Surebleak
  9. 9.0 9.1 Scout's Progress, ch 11
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Daughter of Dragons
  11. Prodigal Son
  12. Fledgling
  13. Fledgling
  14. Fledgling
  15. Mouse and Dragon, ch 11
  16. Trader’s Leap; Dutiful Passage Millsap Orbit
  17. I Dare
  18. I Dare
  19. Necessity’s Child
  20. Ghost Ship
  21. Trader’s Leap; Dutiful Passage Millsap Orbit
  22. Due Diligence, ch 4
  23. 23.0 23.1 Mouse and Dragon, ch 22
  24. Mouse and Dragon, ch 18
  25. Saltation, ch 12
  26. 26.0 26.1 Crystal Dragon, ch 6
  27. Mouse and Dragon, ch 21
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