Feeling a bit lost? While us Admins and the rest of the staff don't know everything, we sure can summarize Pern information. Here's a general guide to Pern, for those of us who need a quick update. Feel free to use this for reference in your posts, and don't feel bad about asking something to be added. Not everyone can get everything correct.


An Idea of Pern
Pern is an alternative Earth. The first people here were actually from Earth, and flew here by spaceship. However, this information is long lost to time and Thread. Pern functions now as a slightly medieval world, a feudal system, full of lords and ladies. The flora and fauna are much different than the ones on Earth, with the exceptions of the shipfish, and the beasts that were brought from Earth.


Flora and Fauna of Pern
No native humans have been found on Pern, and it's going to stay that way here. However, Pern does have it's share of native plants and animals as well as domestic breeds brought from Earth.
http://www.angelfire.com/planet/pernrpg/guides/Animals.html

Dragons
There are five kinds of dragons:
Gold ~ Impress only to Heterosexual Females
Bronze ~ Impress only to Heterosexual Males
Brown~ Impress to mostly Heterosexual Males and very very VERY rarely to Females
Blue~ Impress to mostly Males and sometimes to Females
Green ~Impress to Females or Homosexual Males or Bisexual Males

Dragons have multifaceted eyes that change color with their mood.
Blue-Green ~ Contentment
Yellow ~ Fear
Reddish-Yellow ~ Battle
Red-Orange ~ Anger
Red ~ Hunger
Purple ~ Mating Lust
White ~ Danger
Grey ~ Pain

Pern Terms of interest

Between- an area of nothingness and sensory deprivation between here and there
Black rock- coal
Day Sisters- a trio of stars visible from Pern
Dawn Sisters- see Day Sisters
Deadglow- a numbskull, stupid
Fellis- a flowering tree
Fellis juice- a juice made from the fruit of the fellis tree; a soporific
Fire-stone- phosphine-bearing mineral which dragons chew to produce flame
Glow- a light-source which can be carried in a handbasket
Hold- a place where the common people live; originally they were cut into mountains and hillsides
Impression- the joining of minds og a dragon and his rider-to-be at the moment of the dragon’s hatching
Interval-the period of time between passes, generally 200 turns
Klah- a hot stimulating drink made of tree bark and tasting faintly of cinnamon
Looks to- is impressed by
Long interval- a period of time, generally twice the length of an interval, in which no Thread fall and Dragonmen decrease in number
Month- four sevendays
Numbweed- a medicinal cream which, when smeared on wounds, kills all feeling; used as an anesthetic
Pass- a period of time during which the red star is close enough to drop Thread on Pern
Pern- third of the star Rukbat’s five planets. It has two natural satellites
Red star- Pern’s stepsister planet, It has an erratic orbit.
Rukbat- a yellow star in the Sagittarian Sector, Rukbat has five planets and two asteroid belts
Sevenday- a week on Pern
Thread- spores from the Red Star, which decend on Pern and burrow into it, devouring all organic material they encounter
Turn- a Pernese year
Watch-wher- a nocturnal reptile distantly related to dragonkind.
Weyr- a home of dragons and their riders
weyr- a dragon’s den
Weyrsinger- the Harper for the dragonriders, usually himself a dragonrider
Wherries- a type of fowl roughly resembling the domestic turkey of Earth, but about the size of an Ostrich.
Withies- water plants resembling the reeds of Earth.

As found in Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey



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Helpful Links
Five Stone Weyr Wiki - (Adversity made this for the original one, so feel free to glance through it if you want.)
Pernese Oaths / Oaths and such
Pernese Archives / Pern Museum and Archives
Dragon Anatomy
Bunch of interesting.. stuff.
Wikipedia!
Dragon Healers / Dragon Healing / Dragonhealing including Dragon Genetics / More Healing
Pern Alliance
Sariel's Guide to Pern
Sabria's Guide to Pern Online
Animals of Pern / Plants of Pern
Messages from Anne
Saddle and Riding Straps