Esleír



''‘Welcome. For those of you who do not have older siblings, who would have explained the proceedings today, I will now tell you. This feast is to welcome the new students to the school. After the feast, we,’ he gestured to the other Masters at the table, ‘will be choosing to whom who you are apprenticed.’''

'''Master Ascelin's explanation at Shaina's own esleír. '''(CA1)

The Esleír is the ceremony in which a Master Dragonrider chooses an Apprentice, whom they will undertake to educate and train for ten years, unless one or other dies first. For many years, there has been a requirement that the Master and the Apprentice be of the same gender. Noted cases such as the story of Ari and Naysa are exceptions, and some say inspiration for the rule.