Arazol

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Player: Kaghuros

Character Full Name: Arazol Loradrien

Character In-Game Name: Arazol

Association(s): Darnassus, Cenarion Circle (loosely)

Race: Night Elf

Class: Druid

Skills and Abilities: Savage Savant: Arazol is a skilled shapeshifter who slips into the "character" of his wild forms almost too easily. He has enough control over these forms to perform minor Druidic magic while shapeshifted. However, he has little natural talent with the other facets of Druidism even while in Elven form.

Age: 758

Sex: Male

Hair: Dark blue, and quite long and unkempt. He also tends to sport a full beard.

Eyes: Golden

Scale/Height: Scale 1.05, roughly 7'4"

Appearance

Usual Garments/Armor: Arazol generally wears a leather kilt and a loose-fitting leather harness that serves as armor in Elven and animal forms.

Personality

Reserved and somewhat unsure of himself due to his relative youth (and his difficulty with magic), Arazol is deferential to others and generally respectful to those he considers above him in society. He has a strong desire to see the world and experience something different from the life he had in Elven lands, as well as a strong, and very much related, desire to prove himself as a worthy person.

His youth also gives him a more hopeful outlook on the other races of the Alliance. Though he has a degree of initial skepticism of anything related to magic due to his strict upbringing and his experiences of the invasion during the Third War, he is willing to at least entertain the idea that people have good intentions at heart. Naturally this attitude does not carry over to the Horde (and especially not to Orcs, whom he despises for their destruction of the forests and ceaseless war with the Elves).

He enjoys working crafts and herb-gathering, and has begun compiling a manuscript of the herbs and animals of Azeroth's wildernesses for his own reference. These pursuits give him peace of mind, and he takes quite a lot of pride in accomplishing skilled work.

History

Arazol was born into a family of magical talent. His father trained as a Druid among the third and fourth generations of young Elves after the War of the Ancients, and his mother entered the Priestesses as a young girl due to her talent at healing. Naturally Arazol was born with golden eyes and a sense of overwhelming destiny. He was enrolled under Druidic teachers as soon as he could write, and his parents pushed him to excel in the magical arts as they did. The fact that he proved a natural at shapeshifting only solidified their belief that he would one day become a strong and proud Druid in his own right.

However, Arazol was not skilled with magic beyond shapeshifting. Despite excelling at herbalism and the other "practical arts" of Druidism he felt increasingly disappointed with himself, and due to that strove harder to make himself the kind of Druid his parents expected of him. Going through many arduous trials to attempt to improve his magical aptitude.

The birth of his sister, Suha, came as both a relief and a blow to his confidence. She proved to be a natural spellcaster like her mother, and was inducted to the Priestesses at a young age. Her success took much of the pressure off of Arazol, but also cemented his feelings of failure as a Druid.

Arazol participated in the defense of Hyjal, and was devastated by the destruction and loss of life that followed. Though his people were not destroyed (and remain strong in their forest holds), he fears the demoralization caused by the loss of their immortality and the onslaught of the Warsong Orcs.

For much of the time between the end of the Third War and the present, Arazol has been fighting the Orcs and training alongside a militant and strict Druidic master whose emphasis on savage knowledge and wild shapeshifting brought Arazol closer to the mind of the beasts he enjoys becoming.

Centuries have passed since he began his training, but Arazol still has a mental block that prevents him from performing complex magic under pressure. His fear of failure has held him back until now, but a chance meeting in the forests and his recent journey beyond the ancestral lands of the Night Elves has re-awakened a spark of hope in the young Druid. Perhaps, with the help of his new experiences and new friends, he can become more than he thinks he is.