Alariel

Information

Player: Whorak

Character Full Name: Alariel Mistweaver

Character In-Game Name: Alariel

Nicknames: She calls herself ‘The Shadow Mistress’ at times.

Association(s): Silvermoon

Race: Blood Elf

Class: Warlock

Skills and Abilities: Alariel occasionally inflicts shadow damage (The equivalent of the warlock’s Corruption spell) on a victim with her lips. She calls this “Shadow’s Kiss”. Her signature spell is the Haunt spell where she would send a ghostly soul into her victim, terrifying him and dealing shadow damage simultaneously.

Age: 142

Sex: Female

Hair: Alariel has long, curly black hair that is neatly draped over her shoulders.

Eyes: Bright fel green

Weight: 64 kg

Height: 1.76 m

Appearence

Usual Garments/Armor: Alariel likes to dress appealing and therefore wears her Embersilk Robe to just about every occasion.

Other: Alariel is quite agile.

Personality

Alignment: Lawful Evil

From a young age, Alariel showed signs of unstable behavior. This grew later in her life to a dark, and even sadistic, personality. Causing pain and suffering to others only provided her with entertainment, although she would quickly retaliate when pain was caused to her. She would still be careful to keep on the good side of the authorities, however.

Alariel could be perceived as a captivating young female elf. She would never think twice about seducing someone to help her, betraying them as soon as she gets what she wants. Alariel could be compared to a viper: cold-blooded, calculating and always poised to strike. She would often delay a duel while slowly afflicting the opponent with her deadly diseases, only for the opponent to realize the danger when he is too weak to strike back.

History

Born 142 years ago into a well established elven family, Alariel was under constant pressure to perform up to standards in keeping the family name high. Her father was renowned for his skill in the field of arcane magic, and so the weight of living up to his name fell onto his only daughter, Alariel.

As a youngster, Alariel struggled with many of the magic lessons given to her by her mentor. Beginner’s level arcane spells would fizzle in her hands and a simple incantation to light a candle would barely warm the wick. This frustrated her greatly, and led to random fits of chaotic behavior. She was eventually, to the great shame of her family, asked to remain at home. Now without a magic teacher, Alariel started to spend her days wandering around in Eversong Woods as a way of venting her anger and frustration.

One day, late in Alariel’s adolescence, she became friends with an elf who was a few years older than herself. Galdrion proposed to begin Alariel’s magic studies anew with him as her mentor. She eagerly accepted. Free of the pressure to perform well, Alariel progressed from beginner’s spells to more advanced magic at a steady pace. As their relationship grew, Alariel sometimes caught a glimpse of something sinister in Galdrion’s eyes, as if he was keeping secrets from her. This intrigued Alariel, and she became keen to spend more time with her mentor.

After many years of spending time together, Galdrion told Alariel that the time has come to take her studies even further, but that I would require going away from Quel’Thalas. This happened a year after the Second War started. Excited to finally pursue her dreams in mastering the magical arts like her father, Alariel agreed to join despite her parents' warning about the dangers of going South. They left the very next week and finally arrived at a barren area called Badlands after a long time of travelling.

During their time alone in Badlands, Galdrion frequently traveled away while Alariel stayed put. Being alone brought back unpleasant memories from her childhood, and she grew desperate to knew where her mentor so mysteriously disappeared to. One night, when Galdrion was still sleeping, Alariel quietly looked through his belongings. There, in the bag he always carried with him when traveling, rested a tome. She opened it and scanned its contents, revealing spells, incantations and symbols unknown to her. The pages were filled with pain, torture and disease inflicted by magic alone. This discovery marked the start of many occasions she would sneak past her mentor to learn and practice the magic from the tome Galdrion hid from her.

This continued for some time, but ended quite abruptly when he eventually caught her red-handed. Galdrion decided to reveal the truth of his unexplained disappearances to Alariel.

Galdrion told Alariel about his involvement with cultists, how he eventually stole their most sacred source of knowledge on dark magic and how he fled in fear of being killed. The reason he brought her to Badlands was to offer her as blood payment, should his location be discovered. On that moment, Alariel’s admiration towards Galdrion turned into fury and hatred. Bursting into a fit of shrill laughter, she summoned her knowledge on shadow magic and unleashed her wrath onto Galdrion. Caught off guard, he succumbed to her magic and fell to the floor, lifeless.

Alariel spent a long time in Badlands. Feeling betrayed, her personality slowly altered to match the shadow magic she so desired to use: dark and sadistic with a tint of insanity.

One day Alariel woke up with an insatiable thirst for magic. She tried to summon up her power, but it was much harder than she was used to. Not long after, news reached her ears of Quel’Thalas’s terrible fate. She immediately started to travel back to Silvermoon City. When she arrived, she was greeted by rubble, blood and chaos. She helped fight off the remaining scourge, learning about the destruction of the Sunwell in the process. When the city was relatively safe, Alariel went out to search for her family. There, in the runes of her home, lay the corpses of her parents. She turned around. As she walked away, the last pieces of her former self was overshadowed by the new, dark personality. Everything she once loved was gone; simply obliterated. Nothing would ever be the same.

Travelling to Outland with the rest of the Quel’Dorei, Alariel had to learn to adapt to her thirst for magic. There, the elves fed magic off fel crystals, slowly turning them into the Sin’Dorei. It was in Outland where Alariel found another elf who shared her interest in shadow magic. Being a master, he was able to train Alariel. This training involved covering great distances to find knowledge, enchanted items and dark artifacts. However, over the course of many years, Alariel finally mastered the school of shadow magic. Now a warlock, Alariel specialized in the school of Affliction, the school associated with shadow, corruption and fear.

When the Sunwell was restored, Alariel’s thirst for magic turned into a thirst for power instead. She left Outland through the Dark Portal and returned to the rebuilt Silvermoon. She returned to Galdrion’s house and, to her surprise, found it still intact. She hurried to the room she paid so many visits in the past, and on the small table rested the familiar old tome. Having no family to return to anyway, Alariel made the house her home.

Barely two years after returning to Silvermoon City, Alariel woke up one night finding her body paralyzed. Completely surrounding her stood tall, cloaked figures. One stepped forward and revealed himself to be the leader of the cultists Galdrion was involved in. He congratulated her on finishing their job for them, but knowing about the two elves’ relationship, promised that she would not have the honor of death. They imprisoned her in magical chains and dragged her paralyzed body away into the cold, starless night.

Now a prisoner, Alariel was held in the cultists’ temporary lair. They took caution to always keep her tied up, making her unable to properly use magic. There in her cell, Alariel waited patiently. She knew her time would come to escape the foul lair, but when it will happen and what would happen, she did not know.

One night, while the cultists celebrated the fall of Arthas as the Lich King, Alariel seized the opportunity to lure her drunken guard to her cell. Seduced by the elf, the careless guard released Alariel from imprisonment. She made a swift end to his intoxicated cultists’ lives and snuck out of the lair. Despite her state of confusion from being neglected for so long, she was able to find her way back to the safety of Silvermoon (which was quite close to the temporary lair).

Shortly after Deathwing started the Cataclysm, Alariel ventured out into Azeroth to expand her knowledge even further on the school of shadow magic. During this time, Alariel met many new faces. Though, only time would tell if these acquaintances would turn out to be victims of her sadistic nature, or become her allies in her quest for power.