Cylain

Information

Player: SoarTheSky

Character Full Name: Cylain Spearleaf

Character In-Game Name: Cylain

Nickname(s): Watcher (She hates that name)

Association(s): The Watchers (Used to be one, See history)

Race: Night Elf

Class: Hunter

Age: 424 years

Sex: female

Hair: Emerald green

Eyes: Silver

Weight: 197 lbs

Height: 6'3"

Appearence

Usual Garments/Armor: A dark leather ensemble cut in a style she enjoy's for it's freedom of movement and breath ability.

Other: A silver locket within which sits a small stone she hides from all eyes, even her own.

Personality

Cylain is confused, and events in her recent years have made her angry with people she loves and with herself. Over time she is becoming less angered and is trying to come to grips with the events that hurt her, and the people who were involved.

Living among dwarves and humans and dealing with many members of the varied races of Azeroth have given her insight to things both little known, and wished not known. Perhaps the most prominent effect on the anger stricken woman is the profanity used by dwarves. Not the most elegant thing for a Kaldorei to know, but oh so satisfying when venting frustration.

"The first thing I do every morning I wake up is wish I hadn't. The Second thing I do is find a drink."

History

Cylain, her sister Ayanna, and her mother Mandra, lived in Feralas among the Sentinels based in Feathermoon. Mandra was a sentinel, her mother before a sentinel, and so on and so forth for as long as the line goes. Cylain, born first, was expected to be a sentinel as well, and she was. In fact she excelled at the martial weaponry and military style of life, like a well honed weapon to its sheath. Ayanna was not so well suited, the younger sister had trouble with most any weapon, could not remember orders, and worst of all, would panic whenever put under stress. It's these traits of Cylain's younger sister that caused her greatest pain.

When the burning legion began their attack on Kalimdor, Mandra, Cylain, and somewhat unwillingly, Ayanna joined the sentinels and held the line. But in one of the battles, as the undead scourge advanced upon the unit she was with, Ayanna panicked and ran. Her cowardice left a gap that the scourge exploited, tearing through with ease. And as Ayanna ran she tripped, leaving her vulnerable to an approaching Abomination. The monster struck at Ayanna, but its blade sank into Mandra's body instead, who had jumped to shield her daughter. Cylain witnessed this and, in rage, attacked the behemoth who slew her mother. But even though her eyes were clouded by anger, Cylain could not help but notice that as their mother died, Ayanna simply ran away.

From that day on Cylain refused to talk to her sister, refused to even acknowledge her existence. And as the events of the third war came to a close, the two sisters who were at once so close, had fallen to opposite sides of the world, both physically and in spirit. Ayanna felt shame and sorrow for what she had done, blaming herself even as her sister did for the death of their mother. But Cylain continued down a path clouded by anger until it was all she could see. When the Warden Maiev set out to hunt down the betrayer, Cylain joined the Watchers in their hunt. Cylain despised Illidan, believing that any of her people who would be willing to give up everything they cherish just for the sake of power deserved no mercy nor would receive any.

But this view changed when she saw that it wasn't just power that some sought. When Maiev left the priestess Tyrande Whisperwind to the scourge, and then lied to Malfurion of it, She was confused and felt like a child in a place she did not recognize. Maiev was a warden, one of the Watchers who served no other than the high priestess. But she had abandoned the Priestess to death in order to quicken her hunt of Illidan. When the events had settled out, and Maiev and the other watchers rushed to chase Illidan to worlds beyond, Cylain found she could not follow them for they were not what she had thought.

But even though she did not follow the watchers, nor did she return to Kalimdor. It was for no other reason than because she could not face her sister, as she knew she had to. Cylain had opened unclouded eyes for the first time since her mother's death, and found that if she did not forgive her sister, she could not consider herself any better than that which had forged her anger. She had given up her family to anger, had refused to forgive her simply because it was easier to be angry. And even now Cylain did not wish to return, she could not forgive, because it was her sister who had to forgive her.

For the next decade or so, Cylain wandered the lands of Azeroth as a mercenary. A hard life, but that was what she wanted. She eventually made her way through the dark portal, into the land the watchers, and the warden, had passed through in the hunt for Illidan. In this broken outland she once again reconciled herself with what she knew and what truly was. When news of Kil'jaeden's return reached her ears, her deep seated hatred of demons urged her into battle alongside the Naaru and the Sha'tar. there, she witnessed how the Sun King Kael'thas had betrayed his people to gain power from demons, who had been the guiding force behind his peoples destruction, and how his people sought forgiveness from the Naaru and the Sha'tar.

And then, in Northrend she reconciled herself to more of reality. As she fought alongside the argent crusade against the undead scourge, she witnessed how the Knights of the Ebon Blade were betrayed by their creator and master, and how they sought to redeem themselves in the eyes of those they had once fought and died to protect. She discovered, and after some time accepted, that the Undead scourge who had slain so many of her people in the third war were not entirely at fault, that they were merely used as a tool for the demonic legion's malefic ends.

Over time Cylain has learned that the world is not just light and darkness. Betrayal can happen to anyone, and everyone. And sometimes, even your own heart will deceive you.

Skills and Abilities

Piercing Gaze, Cylain's previous training as a watcher prevents distraction from her target

Stubborn Aim, Cylain hates letting any target get away, and has practiced predicting a target's movements, even when they leave her sight

Determination, Part training, part stubbornness, Cylain refuses to be stopped until her blade meets its mark.