Gorose

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Player: muhaha8

Character Full Name: Gorose Falaran

Character In-Game Name: Gorose

Nickname(s): Saint, Dark Priest

Association(s): Undercity, The Forsaken, The Church of Forgotten Shadow, The Royal Apothecary Society

Race: Forsaken

Class: Shadow Priest

Skills and Abilities:

Gorose deals heavily with the combative side of Divine Shadow, rather than just the mind-bending aspects. As such, he is very potent in combat, and can use the Shadow in varying ways than many.
  • With the Shadows - While in Shadowform, Gorose can disappear from sight, so long as he stands in a shadow and relatively still. This requires focus and cannot be used in direct combat, but more to launch a surprise attack on an enemy.
  • Shadow Friend - Gorose can bring his shadow into combat as a Shade. It holds all the abilities of a normal Shadow Priest, and cannot be forced from combat, or turned against him. If destroyed, Gorose is greatly weakened, and it will take time to regenerate his shadow. It is extremely succeptible to Light magic.
  • Lightphobia - Gorose, due to his extremely heavy use of Shadow, has become more succeptible to damage from it.
  • Feast on the Shadows - Gorose can damage an opponent by pinning him or her and draining his or her life energy. This does not replenish his own health.

Age: 37

Sex: Male

Hair: Thin, wiry and greasy black, matted to his head.

Eyes: Unholy yellow glow.

Weight: 103 lbs.

Height: 5' 2"

Appearance

Usual Garments/Armor: Gorose dresses largely in pale green and silver robes, with a hood almost constantly pulled up over his head. He carries a wooden staff, dark with age, and a ceremonial curved dagger.

Personality

Gorose is an odd one. He does still feel, in a physical, but not exactly an emotional, manner.His use of the Shadow has dulled any emotions he may have had. He is more of a husk of himself than he even was when he was made Undead. He preaches, and follows the teachings of, the Forgotten Shadow to the letter. He tends to relish in the fear he strikes into mortals. It was from these foolish mortals that he recieved his monacre, and because of them he still carries it. He is often filled with a seething hatred towards anything living. He has an equally as large hatred of the Scourge, and would gladly have joined Putress at Angrathar if he had been able to.

History

Gorose was born, as well as orphaned, in the once-great city of Stratholme. His parents abandoned him on the stoop of one of the city's many orphanages, and it was there he was raised. His earliest memories are jaded with hatred and pain, remembering the lives of the children in the home. They were abused and mistrested behind closed doors. The poor little boy, then called Armas, could do nothing about it. This eventually led to his embitterment toward power-figures in society. He was powerless to do anything, and it broke the young boy, almost completely.

Armas's demise came some years later. During the intervening years, the boy, now young man, had joined the priesthood, as a way to both escape the orphanage, as well as to allow himself an opportunity to make something of his miserable life. He became a small-time parish Priest, and there he developed a seemingly natural affinity for honest, reverent preaching. The young Armas knew how to draw a crowd, one could easily say.

Armas's demise came swiftly, and without retribution. When plagued shipments of grain arrived in the city, and had been distributed amongst the people, Armas included, Arthas planned to purge the city. Thus, the Culling of Stratholme began. Fighting the Dead Lord Mal'Ganis for every body, Arthas swept through the city. He killed many before the plague could take them, but Armas was not one of those he killed. The poor young Priest had the misfortune of mindlessly serving the Lich King now.

The years between that day and his freedom are completely blank to him. He remembers the screams, the blood of his defenseless victims pouring like wine flowing from a bottle, soaking his wretched corpse of a body in their living filth. Well, not living for long. It was as though he was on auto-pilot to begin with. He could see what he was doing, but could not control himself. Regardless of how cruel society was to him, he was disgusted by his uncontrollable actions. Eventually, the Undead gave in, and began to mindlessly relish in the murder he committed. Until Sylvanas came along, that is.

Sylvanas Windrunner, former Ranger General of the High Elves, had become a Banshee against her will, when Arthas slew her. The woman slowly regained control of herself, until one day, she felt she was no longer under Arthas's control. She broke free and attacked the man, wounding him. It was a wound the great Death Knight would never fully recover from. All the Undead under Sylvanas's command, Armas included, regained control of their own bodies, as well. Sylvanas took her body back, and led the newly-dubbed Forsaken as their queen. Armas gave himself a new name as well: Gorose Falaran.

Gorose was quite frightened when he discovered he had no use of the Light anymore. He became embittered, hating living beings for having access to his once-favored source of magic when he did not. He joined a group of Forsaken who were turning to a new power: the Shadow. These men distorted the teachings of the Light to fit their own twisted, egocentric views. They warped the Holy Light's virtues into that of Power, Tanacity and Respect. He quickly rose in power, both within his fold, and in power with the Shadow. He quickly gained his own small, yet devout, following, and split off, setting up his parish with his followers at a small house in Brill. There he has remained since, his following small, but still as devout as it ever was. In recent months, Gorose could be found leaving the area to travel abroad, in the hopes of furthering the Forsaken cause and bringing more members into his fold.