Kiandra was born at Storm Fires Hold and raised there. When I introduced her she had just turned 18 and achieved the rank of Journeywoman in the Baker craft. Her mother is called Agliadra and her father Kian is deceased. She has a step father named Gillin, a step brother Giano, and a step-sister Lillina. Her step-sibs are much older than her though and never mentioned.

A simple soul who is often regarded as slow even by those who know her, Kiandra is not stupid, but it takes her a little longer to learn things if it requires reading. Once she has them, however, she has no problem remembering them, and her reflexes are quite quick. She is discovering that her strengths are in learning physical things instead of bookwork, which is absolutely fine now that she's a dragonrider. She has an unfailingly cheerful attitude that she shows to the rest of the world, and it hides an inner insecurity that she allows to show only when she is alone or with her closest friends, Jessilee and Nial, although this insecurity is slowly fading away the longer she's with Cariath.

Kiandra stands at 5'8" tall with a big-boned frame, although she is not fat. Her large frame makes her appear slightly chunky even though she is at the height of physical fitness. She has soft brown eyes that remind one of a canine's eyes along with an easy smile that lights up her face. Her curly brown hair goes down to her ears with two tendrils on either side of her face that trail down to her waist, which she can tuck up beneath her riding helmet.

Kiandra's father died when she was only five in a lumbering accident where a tree fell on him, and her mother remarried when she was 10, giving Kiandra her two older step-siblings. They were both much older than she was though, and so she didn't see much of them. Her mother loved her new children as if her own, and compared them constantly to Kiandra. Kiandra is not as quick at picking things up as her step-siblings though, and so her mother looked down on her daughter as a disappointment.

In time, the negative comments that she got from her mother began affecting her, and she would eat to help with the depression. This caused her to gain weight until her already large frame appeared fat and gave her mother a new reason to pelt her daughter with negative comments. The fat and stupid comments only made Kiandra more depressed, so she continued to eat, locking her into a cycle where she couldn't lose the weight and could never please her mother. She decided at age 12 to become a baker, an occupation that didn't please her mother and aided her in her eating binges, but she is a good cook.

Her childhood friend Nial developed an attraction for Kiandra despite her overweight appearance and the two are quite attached. On the night that Kiandra and Nial made Journeyman, Nial proposed to Kiandra, and she happily accepted. The next day, Jessilee approached her and asked if she would like to come to the new Weyr that was just starting up. Kiandra was delighted with the prospect of being around dragons, for she had always loved them, and she and Nial both readily accepted the invitation, and were eagerly awaiting news on whether or not they had been approved to go. When Kiandra told her mother about the possibility, her mother only stated that it would never happen and that Kiandra was silly for dreaming that the Weyr would ever accept her to be their baker when there were other prettier and smarter candidates for the position.

Rising Dawn Weyr did accept Kiandra and Nial, and the next day Kiandra, Nial and Jessilee all left for the Weyr. Kiandra hadn't been there long before she was Searched, and her first time standing Impressed a green named Cariath on November 26th, 2004. Nial doesn't mind that his love is now a dragon rider even though he will not be Searched and will never become a dragonrider. He knows that her heart is big enough for both Cariath and himself.

Nial patiently waited out the one Turn of the Ban so that he can Kiandra could live together, and the two are quite happily weyrmated. During that time, Nial Impressed a green flitter which he named Elia. Kiandra graduated and was been placed in a Wing to fight thread, and she does a marvelous job at it. She later Impressed a brown flitter she named Padji, and when Elia rises to mate, Padji catches her and Nial and Kiandra get that little taste of what it would be like if they were both dragonriders. They're very happy wherever they go as long as they are together.

After the attack on Rising Dawn Weyr, they moved to Storm Fires and were perfectly happy there, although they missed having a weyr that was right by the sea. They were getting set to move back to Rising Dawn Weyrhold when Kiandra found out that she was pregnant, and she was thrown for a loop when the dolphins informed her that she was pregnant with twin boys! She named them Alexando and Quinnor, and they completed their move back to Rising Dawn Weyrhold, so they're quite happy, if a little tired from dealing with two young babies.

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