Fort Weyr is the first of eight (by the end of the 9th pass) Weyrs established on the Planet Pern in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series. It was founded by Sean Connell and his wife, Sorka Hanrahan-Connell and is located in the mountains of the Southwestern peninsula of the Northern Continent. It was built primarily using high tech sonic/plasma stone cutters to form perfectly smooth walls absent in later Weyrs. Created when the population was forced to desert the Southern Continent during the Second Crossing, Fort Weyr housed the original eighteen dragonriders and their dragons. Although capable of holding 500 dragons, along with their riders and support staff, the Weyr became too small to sustain all of Pern's dragons and was expanded into several large Weyrs including Benden Weyr and High Reaches Weyr.
Fort Hold, South Boll and Ruatha Holds are all beholden to Fort Weyr.
The first Fort Weyrleaders encountered in the series are T'ron (called T'ton in Dragonflight) and his Weyrwoman Mardra. After T'ron loses a knife fight to F'lar, he resigns his position to T'kul. After the Oldtimers moved south, N'ton became Weyrleader when his bronze dragon Lioth flew the new Weyrwoman Margatta's queen Ludeth. Another famous pairing, Sh'gall and Moreta, were the Weyrleaders of Fort Weyr at the time of the great plague.
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