Grelwaz

Information

Player: Mimloopen

Character Full Name: Grel’waz Darkspear

Character In-Game Name: Grelwaz

Nickname(s): Grel

Association(s): Darkspear Tribe

Race: Troll

Class: Witch Doctor

Skills and Abilities: He has the ability to craft all sorts of potions, including flasks that explode or poison an enemy on contact. He is also able to detect most poisons that use ingredients from Kalimdor. Otherwise, generic witch doctor.

Age: 34

Sex: Male

Hair: A stylin’ orange mohawk

Eyes: Brown

Weight: 255 lbs

Height: 7’ 10’’

Appearance

He usually wears a simple kilt and harness, along with a large ornamental kite on his back and a mace at his side. The head of the mace is, strangely, filled with sand. When doing voodoo rituals he will have a generic voodoo mask.

Personality

Alignment: Lawful evil

A very superstitious fellow. If you fail to follow his beliefs, whether or not you know about them, he will instantly chastise and scorn you. Other than his superstitions Grelwaz is often demeaning when not trying to make a profit. He doesn’t make friends easily with trolls; on the contrary he is quick to make rivals. He is also fascinated by insects, and has a rarely seen soft spot for them.

Despite his demeaning attitude he is quick to back down to threats or violence unless his precious potions are damaged.

History

Grel’waz was born an ordinary troll into a not so ordinary family. His father, a witch doctor, had two wives that were both practised in identifying and gathering herbs for him. At a young age Grel’waz took to following them, often injuring himself on some poisonous plant or bug, sometimes several times in one day. After a lot of trial and error he learnt what gathering he could and couldn’t handle, and made it his priority to collect small insects and beetles for his father, who would award him with a potion that gave him all sorts of enjoyable daydreams. Sometimes he observed his father making simple potions and tried to mimic them, but only ended up with a sore stomache.

His father was extremely superstitious, a man who both revered and feared the Loa and was convinced that his patronage to them was the only true way to please them, and Grel’waz inherited all of these superstitions. Always knock on a door frame before entering and leaving a dwelling, leave one of every kind of bug or plant leaf on the ground when brewing, bring a wooden stick with a bag of sand stuck to it... all of these were to ward off spirits, and there were dozens more to placate them.

Otherwise his upbringing was relatively quiet and normal. He learned the arts of being a witch doctor quickly and was initiated by his father as an ‘official’ family witch doctor by sacrificing and devouring the less satisfactory of his wives, and finding him a replacement. He learned much about the Loa and how to harness their power through voodoo ritual but his main love remained with potion making.

His father passed away a year before the sinking of the Darkspear isles, the result of a potion gone horribly wrong. After fighting against the murlocs he followed the rest of the Darkspears to Kalimdor and was pleased at the entirely new continent to explore for plants and wildlife to use for potions. Eventually he realised his potions could be worth money, so he began making the more pleasurable and entertaining ones to sell at shady areas. The only thing that upset Grelwaz was the Horde’s restrictions on ancient troll traditions, and he worked to undermine these whenever possible.