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**Also justified that almost all of their technical skill went into civil defense which was not needed between Thread season. And Thread was not an intelligent enemy but predictable like weather which put less encouragement on innovation and more on discipline.
* [[Mercy Kill]]: Sometimes administered to badly injured Thread victims, by means of a lethal dose of "fellis", an herbal sedative.
* [[Mission Control]]: A wyer is the dispatch center for
* [[Multiple-Tailed Beast]]: Pernese dragons have forked tails.
* [[The Napoleon]]: Lessa
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** The first time F'nor and Brekke have sex comes across this way to most readers, although there's some debate.
** Arguably F'lessan and Tai as well, although in that case the only possible rape was triggered by a mating flight.
* [[Warrior Monk]]: Dragonriders are kind of like an order of warrior monks, though they are not precisely religious, nor primarily warriors (more disaster relief).
* [[Warrior Poet]]: As noted above the dragonriders are badass bookworms. They also make poetry about their deeds some of which has the practical purpose of preserving information in a partially literary culture. Poetry is of course handled by Harpers primarily but a lot of it is about dragonriders.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: In ''The Masterharper of Pern'' Robinton is noted to have the ability to speak to (and hear) dragons, leading to his mother actually hoping that he would be Searched by a Weyr in order to get him out of their troubled home. Unfortunately no queens were laying when Robinton was of the optimal age to Impress a dragon.
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