RP: Character Backgrounds: February 2008 Archives

It's about time to introduce my last two alts, my warlock and my rogue.  I'm doing them together because they're both still lower levels, and their stories are intertwined.

 

Name: Emelyn

Age: Around 115.

 

Name: Kalianne

Age: 19

 

Background:

 

Emelyn was an esteemed and powerful mage of the Kirin Tor, having been taken into their midst at an early age and trained as a magic-user.  She struggled with the rules and practices of the order for a long time, but kept to them as best she could.  In her later years, Emelyn began to feel the slow creep of time catching up to her, and it was terrifying.

 

 

For night after night, the aging mage searched for a way to prolong her life, and it became an obsession.  Then one evening, her experiments attracted the attention of a being from the Twisting Nether - one of the leiutenants of the Burning Legion.  He appeared to Eme as a benevolant and beautiful being who offered her youth and eternal life.  Seeing her own mortality on the horizon, Emelyn went against her better judgements and did the bidding of the demon, who gave her increasingly difficult and twisted tasks to perform.

 

Finally, he instructed her to go to a village in a remote part of the land and destroy it, absorbing the souls of the people there, and this would return her youth.  Caught in the heady rush of power and with the promise of being young again, Emelyn did as he wished.  The village was bombarded with a rain of fire, the screams of terror splitting the night.  It was only as she absorbed the last of the life from a woman and felt her own vitality completely restored that Eme realised that the village was her family's home, and the charred remains that lay around her were those of her own children and grandchildren.

 

 

Horrified by what she had wrought, Emelyn gave herself over to the demon completely and became a full warlock.  Now she hungers and cares only for power, travelling and searching for more ways to harness the fel energies of the nether.

 

Unknown to the magic-user, a single person survied the purging of the village.  A young child who was discovered amongst the bodies, crying in terror and sorrow. 

       

The child was taken into the care of the nearby Ravenholdt manor, a hidden house that serves as a training ground and base for a group of assassins.  Kalianne grew up with them, learning the craft as soon as she could hold a knife.  She threw herself into the way of life, wishing only to find the warlock who burned her village and killed her family, not knowing that the woman she now hunts is her own great-grandmother.

   

 

 

The OOC Stuff:

 

My warlock is currently level 63, and I'm intending to get her to 70 when I feel like it, to make her my raiding DPS character.  However, I have my other two raiders (Ele and Yol) to concentrate on, so Eme's levelling is fairly slow.  I do love playing a warlock though, and she was one of the earlier characters I made.

 

Kalianne is currently level 48, and likely to remain around there.  She's the character that I sometimes jump on to have a bit of fun.  I do like the rogue, but I prefer the ranged classes for damage dealing.   

Time for my most recent level 70, my Draenei.

 

 

Name: Yolana

Age: Around 50.

 

Background:

 

Yolana lived with her family in Shattrath City, studying along with many of her age as a servent of the Light.  To her continuing distress, she displayed little aptitude for any type of magic, although her skill with a variety of weapons was undisputed.  Because of this "handicap" as her family saw it, she seldom left the city and never took part in any fighting, even sparring.  Yolana looked up to her older brother, Admosmori, who was a gifted weilder of arcane forces. 

 

Things proceeded quietly until the corruption of the orcs and the attack of Shattrath City.  Yolana, Admosmori and two of their brothers escaped the slaughter, but most of their family were killed.  They went into hiding with the rest of the Draenei, until the prophet Valen led his followers to take the Exodar and travel to the continent of Kalimdor.  Yolana joined the parties that turned the crashed ship into a new home, while Admosmori left to learn the art of shamanism and to fight against the demonic forces in their old home.

 

To her surprise, Yolana learned that the elves of their new home did not revere magic in the same way as her people.  She trained with the Sentinels of Darnassus and then travelled to the Eastern Kingdoms and there continued her pursuit of the techniques that the humans, dwarves and gnomes could teach her.

 

The road was long and hard, adapting to a new place and new people.  Yolana explored as much of this new world as she could, venturing into the depths of ruined temples and the heights of snowy mountains, learning how best to fight against the magic-users and demons that threatened this world as well as her own.

 

The Draenei aquired many new scars, but eventually she saddled her steed, a horse that she had been given by a greatful farmer of Elwynn forest, and she travelled to the blasted lands to pass through the opened portal.

 

When she saw the devastation that had been wreaked on the once-beautiful world, Yolana threw herself into the fight.  She travelled to the reconstructed Shattrath city and allied herself with the Sha'tar. 

 

While in Shadowmoon Valley with a druid she had befriended, Yolana was almost overcome by a pack of fire elementals.  Just as the two of them were about to fall, the elementals were struck by a storm of lightning and destroyed.  To her surprise, their savior was her own brother, Admosmori.  Impressed by her swift progress and abilities, Admos allowed his sister to join him in the fight, and the two of them now battle side by side along with their other allies.

 

OOC Background:

 

Yolana is my third 70.  I started her to try out being a warrior, and because I wanted to have a tanking class along with my healer and DPS.  I levelled her as MS/prot (I liked being able to solo, but also being able to strap on a shield and tank) and ended up respeccing to full protection at level 69, when I tanked Shadow Lab for my Kara key piece.  Since then I've not looked back.  Devastate and shield slam are just delicious for building hate.  I have to admit that the temptation to go to a PVP spec and rock the BGs appeals to me, though.

 

Why a Draenei?  Well, I always loved the look and feel of the new races.  Most draenei at level 70 are shamen, and I wanted something different.  I also already have two elves at level 70, two humans at mid-to-high levels and I find dwarves and gnomes hard to play because of the low perspective of their heights.  Playing a draenei female warrior makes me feel incredibly heroic, too.  Even if she does squeak too much when she gets hit.

 

I'm about ready to begin tanking in Karazhan with her, and I'm hoping to gear her up as one of our tanks.  We don't have many warriors in the guild that raid.  I'm still considering her as a DPS warrior, but right now I prefer tanking.  

Time to introduce my second 70, and currently my character that raids the most and has the best gear.

 

   

Name: Eledith Leafstalker

Age: Around 500.

 

Background:

 

Eledith is the younger sister of the huntress, Alyviel.  Born and raised while her sister was away, Ele was always told tales of her brave and daring older sibling, and often dreamed of being like her.  During the Third War, so many druids were losing their lives that Ele was taken into training as soon as she displayed an aptitude for the healing arts.  Under the watchful eye of her father, she swiftly developed her abilities.

 

Ele was an impulsive youngster and often found it difficult to be, as she saw it, held back by the stuffy elder druids.  Although her training was not yet complete, she left the safety of Moonglade and travelled to the Eastern Kingdoms with her sister.  It was there that the both of them joined an organisation known as the Shadow Walkers, and fought together against the Burning Legion.

 

Eledith joined the Cenarion Expedition against the wishes of her parents and sister, travelling to the Outland and battling against the Burning Legion.

 

The half-trained druid met and befriended a human warrior by the name of Maxinos.  When he appeared one day at a guild meeting with a patch over his eye, she was concerned.  On learning that Max had been severely beaten by his own brother, a dark magic user named Megawatt, Eledith transported him to Moonglade where she healed his wounds.

 

 

 

Maxinos has been beaten by his cruel brother for warning him away from Eledith and her sister.  On discovering that Eledith had healed Maxinos' wounds, Megawatt sought out the young druid, believing that her strong abilities in a field that he could never touch would be of some use to him.  Telling the impressionable Ele that by allowing Mega to oversee her training, she could better watch over Maxinos, Megawatt bound her soul to himself in a dark ritual.

 

 

 

Well-meaning but naive, the young druid never realised that this would put her into the warlock's service.  Both Aly and Max have suspicions that something has happened, but neither of them has had confirmation yet.

 

 Personality:

 

Before the ritual that bound her to Megawatt, Eledith was a happy-go-lucky, care-free sort, always running around and laughing.  Since travelling to the Outland and battling the demons beside the other druids of the order she has calmed down, and then the ritual dampened her previously effervescent personality, leaving her quieter and more focused.

 

OOC Background:

 

Eledith was my first character created, but my second 70.  For a long time I was the only active druid healer in the guild and so I went along to a lot of Karazhan raids.  Now that we're getting some more geared up, I'm getting the opportunity to play my other characters in there, but Ele remains my best-geared and most common raiding character.  

 

I adore being a restoration druid.  In fact, one of my favourite sources for restoration druid news and tips, Resto4Life was a big inspiration in starting my own blog.  Ele has one piece of Season 3 gear from the arena matches I've taken part in, both in 3- and 2- man groups.  She's hopefully going to get her second piece tomorrow.  She also has the Season 1 headpiece.  Her gloves and chestpiece are both Tier 4. 

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So, I'm on an RP server (Argent Dawn).  And even though I don't get to RP very much, my characters still have backgrounds to them.  That and their OOC backgrounds.  I figured I may as well introduce each of my main characters.

 

This is the first.

 

 

Name:  Alyviel Leafstalker

Age:  She stopped counting a long time ago.  In her thousands.

 

Background:

 

Alyviel is the daughter of a druid and a priestess.  She was originally trained in the traditional way, and served for many years as a Priestess of the Moon, and eventually as a Sentinel.

 

 

She eventually fell in love with a young druid named Daedd.  Suffering the years apart when he was slumbering in the Emerald Dream, their relationship ended in tragedy when he was killed in a terrible accident.  Aly's faith was shattered and she turned her back on Elune and her culture, travelling to the Eastern Kingdoms on her own.  There she wandered for many years, keeping no company but her own and eventually that of a lion who she rescued as a cub from predators and befriended.

 

 

Alyviel and Mauja eventually discovered the gnome city of Gnomeregan.  Fascinated by their technology, something that she had never seen on Kalimdor, Aly spent years studying the diminutive race and their ways.  Eventually she became frustrated with their lack of caution, however, and once again struck out on her own.

 

When the Scourge came, Aly threw herself into the fighting.  With her lion by her side, the former Sentinel was a formidable force and she aided many small villages in fleeing from the undead.  During the Third War, it was inevitable that she come into contact with her own people again.  At first reluctant, she was eventually persuaded to travel home and be reuinited with her family.  In her absence, her parents had produced a daughter, Eledith, who was training to be a druid.  Against her parent's wishes, Eledith travelled to the Eastern Kingdoms to fight against the Burning Legion, and Aly followed to keep an eye on her.

 

Personality:

 

Used to solitude, Aly can come across as distant and aloof.  The only being she really trusts is her lion, Mauja, and she has no great love for anybody else.  Uncomfortable in cities, she spends most of her time roaming the wilds.  Recently she has spend a lot of time in the Outland, battling against the Burning Legion with a fierce passion.

 

The lighter side of her personality only tends to come out around gnomes and as part of her engineering background, leading to some mishaps with the gadgets she tinkers with.

 

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OOC Background:

 

Aly isn't my first character, but she is the first I got to 60 and then to 70.  I liked the idea of a hunter, running around with a pet.  In SWG I had played a creature handler, and this sounded somewhat like that.  I also used to solo a lot and she was a perfect fit for that.

 

Nowadays Aly tends to be my farming character, although I do take her along raiding sometimes.  I still enjoy her playstyle very much but there are a whole lot of hunters out there.  I still maintain that the class is easy to learn, very difficult to master.