Talk:List of Dragonriders of Pern characters

message: [1] See #Menolly hair color (was not old but posted at top instead of bottom).
[2]Personally, I think it best to order these by Pass then profession, rather than simply by profession. Bluap 16:05, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, found the answer. Bhamv 07:32, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I can't find any reference to this on Google, so suspect that it's simply fan-fiction. Bluap (talk) 15:43, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
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message: I see the link for "agenothree" leads to the Wiki page for Nitric Acid. Wasn't Agenothree supposed to be silver nitrate, an antibacterial / disinfectant? (That is, AgNO3)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.36.24.43 (talk) 15:26, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Unlikely. Can you find any supporting evidence? Colour, etc. Are there any cases of injuries involving "agenothree"?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.95.1 (talk) 18:24, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  "Agenothree" was originally "HNO3" but was slurred over time (by the end of the first pass, if I recall correctly). Quote from Dragonsdawn - "Tarvi drafted a crew to work round the clock, adapting empty cylinders into flamethrowers and filling them with HNO3." - This is page 202 in my book (hard cover, First Edition, 1988) Zirenth (talk) 05:49, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Agenothree

message: Menolly's hair is not red as currently stated in the article. There's a supposed link to a source for this, but I just did a search in google books in Dragonsinger for both "red" and "hair" and red never comes up in conjunction with Menolly's hair. There's red eyes, red dresses, the Red Star...no red hair. When I searched for "hair" it says Silvina has dark hair, Robinton has silvered hair, Piemur has curly hair, Beauty hides in Menolly's hair, but it never says what COLOR Menolly's hair is in Dragonsinger. The red hair Menolly is often mistaken to have comes from the interpretation of the cover artist Rowena, from the old US covers for the Harper Hall Trilogy. Book itself doesn't state it.  
:Rowena "covered" the 1986 Del Rey reissue, first to label them "first of the h h trilogy" and so on.
:For red hair see also the earlier cover of The Harper Hall of Pern (1984 omnibus, also US). According to the Pern Museum, that painting is still for sale. -P64  
All The Weyrs of Pern however says Menolly's hair is "dark" when I search for it. So I'm removing the color and its incorrect "reference".D. M. Domini (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 19:33, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Reading Dragonholder it seemed clear to me that McCaffrey's model for Menolly has dark hair. Can it be a figment of the black-and-white photograph? I'll try to revisit the text. --P64 (talk) 18:39, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Menolly hair color 

message: :See also the fourth comment above ([4], which I have just numbered).
Currently there are 15 so-called major characters from the present Ninth Pass Pern, c. 2500 AL: one artificial intelligence, eight people, three dragons, three more people.
 Ninth Pass
          o 1.1.1 AIVAS
          o 1.1.2 F'lar
          o 1.1.3 F'nor
          o 1.1.4 F'lessan
          o 1.1.5 Jaxom
          o 1.1.6 Lessa
          o 1.1.7 Menolly
          o 1.1.8 Piemur
          o 1.1.9 Robinton
          o 1.1.10 Mnementh
          o 1.1.11 Ramoth
          o 1.1.12 Ruth
          o 1.1.13 Readis
          o 1.1.14 Sebell
          o 1.1.15 Sharra
Whose is really a major character? Not the last three, who are less than Brekke. Rather than add Brekke, I would cut F'nor and F'lessan (see figure), leaving ten.
By this standard which earlier characters qualify as major? No dragons yet, although Talenth and Minith may be surpassing all but Ruth as characters. Among the people,
 Sixth Pass, ~1500 AL
   Alessan
   Moreta
   Nerilka
 Third Pass, ~500 AL
   Fiona
   Kindan
   Lorana
 Second Pass, ~250 AL
   none
 Landing and soon After Landing (AL)
   none?
Alessan, Moreta, and Nerilka qualify as major characters essentially because Moreta and Nerilka's Story develop their characters more than most Pern books do. (Furthermore, Moreta and her story seem to be an important model for the Todd McCaffrey books: repairing dragons, facing the plague, traveling in time, borrowing a dragon.)
Fiona, Kindan, and Lorana should go without sayin'. --P64 (talk) 17:58, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major characters 

message: I have removed the following, who have mainly only appeared in a single book, with limited impact on the story of that book: Bluap (talk) 10:24, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed entries