She has a high empathy ability, she started traning as a healer, but found beast more to he liking, she transferred to the Beastcrafthall, she big strong person Ballora is the new Beastmaster in the Skies of Pern. She was named in the Council meeting at Telgar Hold, 3.1.31, and argued about the wisdom of placing an observatory on the Western Continent, without more knowledge on the life forms there, and "what effect contact with new ones would have with our indigenous species."