Kylara

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Kylara is a character in the Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey. She is the headstrong Weyrwoman of the Southern Weyr, later moving to High Reaches Weyr when the Southern Continent is given to the rebellious Oldtimers who refuse to acknowledge Benden as their sovereign. Kylara is known for flaunting sexual and political customs, such as openly taking a lover from among the Lord Holders (Lord Meron of Nabol) rather than maintaining the polite fiction that her Weyrleader, T'bor, is her lover. She also finds much of the domestic work of the Weyrwoman's office distasteful, preferring to leave day-to-day management of the Weyr to more junior goldriders, including Brekke and Vanira (also called Varena).

When Brekke's gold Wirenth rises to mate, Kylara is engaged with Meron at Nabol. One gold dragon in heat can, if she passes too close to another gold near her own heat cycle, drive that dragon into premature mating. Two mating queens within sight of each other will battle to the death over males. Wirenth overflies Kylara's gold Prideth, who launches into mating frenzy, resulting in the death of both dragons. Both women survive, but Kylara is left in a childlike state and Brekke suffers deep depression.

Kylara is the full-blood sister of Lord Larad of Telgar Hold, the daughter of Lord Tarathel, and the half-sister of Lady Holder Thella and Lady Famira of Lemos Hold. In her youth, Lord Tarathel cast her mother aside in favor of another bedmate.