Ionion

Information

Player: Geoni

Character Full Name: Ionion Nalvirr

Character In-Game Name: Ionion

Association(s): The Highborne, Shen’dralar, Dalaran

Race: Highborne

Class: Mage

Skills and Abilities: Ionion is adept in all three fields of magic, being fire, arcane, and frost. He specializes in arcane, but he is also very skilled in the studies of fire and frost magics as well due to his considerable background. One of his more peculiar abilities is the ability to utilize the power of polymorphism, and can change other people into both living and non-living objects.

Age: 12,037

Sex: Male

Hair: Both his beard and hair are long and white, and his eyebrows thick, extending over six inches off the sides of his face.

Eyes: Amber

Height: 6’7”

Weight: 244 lbs.

Scale: 0.96

Appearance

Usual Garments/Armor: Ionion wears a number of different outfits, but he prefers to wear a robe made out of different colors, although most of it is white in color and lined with black and blue.

Other: He carries with him a steel rod that has two white crystals on each end of it, which shine brightly. He has a number of heirlooms that are made out of gold and assorted gems: a necklace with oval pendants, four rings, and bracelets on each arm. The headpiece that he wears belonged to his deceased lover, and having been white and black and containing sapphire, it was the inspiration for him to have an outfit designed to match it.

Personality

Ionion is, first and foremost, dedicated to his studies in magic and his ambitions to teach other races the magic that he learned from thousands of years of study. This means that he will do anything to experiment on a spell, and disregards the safety of other people involved when testing the spells out. He likes to contract people who are willing to get paid in order to be test subjects for his spell tests, and despite many controversies and accidents, has accomplished the creation of a few spells.

Outside of his interests as a mage, Ionion is a rather miserable person, feeling a disdain for all of the other races that he has to work with, despite working for the cause of teaching them the magic that the Highborne are proud of having perfected. Since he doesn’t care about anyone’s personal life or making friends, he tends to be quiet and prefers isolation outside of testing his spells on people. This has turned his personality frigid cold, and he has no qualms about being forceful and generally mean to other people. He does, however, put on a mask of interest and courteousness when it comes to those higher up in the Kirin Tor, as he is working and putting all of his time and effort into finding himself there one day.

History

Ionion was born in Zin-Azshari, to Highborne parents. His mother was of considerable wealth, and his father was strong and intelligent enough to have gained her favor. Together, they had a daughter and a son. Both of them grew up on the teachings of their parents, and on the idea that they were superior to the rest of their race. Blessed with a fortunate and indulgence-filled state of living, such teachings were easy for Ionion to swallow.

By the time Ionion was a few centuries old, and had learned all of the fundamental knowledge that was expected of him, he became interested in pursuing a career. Like the rest of the Highborne, Ionion was captivated by the Well of Eternity and all of the power that could be harnessed from it, and so he spent the next few centuries studying the arcane. For a while, he would study alongside his sister, but she eventually took on the path of the scribe, just as other women in the family line have.

However, there wasn’t much to say for the men in the family line. Ionion’s father was a soldier in the Moon Guard, but they were considered to be lower class in Highborne society, so it wasn’t something for him to aspire to, due to the stigma. Even his father told him that he should pursue something else, but Ionion eventually became convinced that he wanted to join, as he wanted to both protect his people and to put his studies in magic to use.

When the use and addiction to magical power increased within the Highborne, the Queen became corrupted and eventually attracted the Legion. What would result from this, the War of the Ancients, is where Ionion got that chance he was looking for: finally battle had come, and there was more to do in the Moon Guard other than to loiter around on standby. It didn’t matter what he was fighting for: inviting the Legion along with the goal of ridding the Azeroth of its impurities? This sounded good enough for him. He would fight on the side of the Highborne for a while, until the battle at Suramar.

During the battle at Suramar, Ionion’s father, who fought at his side, was killed by one of the ‘lesser’ Kaldorei. Ionion was able to overcome the death of his father and fight back long enough to survive the battle, but afterwards, he found out that he was in fact unable to overcome the death of his father. The loss sent him into an incredible bout of grief, and he soon began to fall into magical addiction. Or rather, he was close to falling prey to such an addiction. He was able to realize the folly in allowing himself to become too obsessed with his use of magic, and overcame this temptation. During this time, he reflected deeply on the state of his people, and eventually began to see the corruption. Enlightened, he joined the forces of the resistance.

Although he joined the resistance, he was late to the call for the last battle against Azshara that would take place in Zin-Azshari. He felt useless because of this, unable to fight to try and save his people from demise, but was luckier than he thought he was. Because he didn’t participate in that battle, he was spared from the destruction of the city and the damage that the Sundering caused. He lost his entire family in the process of the lore. However, along with a few of the members of the resistance army that were left behind, he fled the area, and headed in a southeastern direction on what was one of the now shattered pieces of what was once a great continent.

He eventually found himself in the lush green lands of Feralas. Much of the city of Eldre’Thalas had been severely damaged and destroyed by the earthquakes that the Sundering caused. However one wing of the city, the Athenaeum, was able to survive the destruction. However, the people weren’t as able to overcome their lethargy that magical addiction caused. Thankfully, the solution came with the imprisonment of Immol’thar. For thousands of years, they were able to sustain their magical thirst and immortality by siphoning the energies that the void terror produced. During this long period of time, Ionion dedicated himself to reading all of the literature that could be found within the Athenaeum. During this time, he met a young woman with similar interests, and fell in love with her.

Her name was Eruiel, and she was in fact a few thousand years younger than he was. However, their bond was in the similar interests in magical study that they shared, along with another desire. For a long time, Eruiel dreamt of the day where she and her people would be able to be free of their exile and rejoin the larger world. But for now, the both of them would have to settle with survival. However, survival on the demonic energies that the void terror produced was corrupting, and it was also limited. Eventually, the HIghborne began to kill one another to reduce the number of people that were living off the dwindling supply of energy, and the two of them joined in the cause. Together, the couple killed six people, all of whom they had some sort of qualm with in the past. However, just because they were killers didn’t mean that they weren’t susceptible to being killed themselves. Ionion and Eruiel would survive many attempts at their lives, but eventually, Eruiel was felled.

The loss of his love was devastating, because with her Ionion lost much of his meaning to continue his long and gloomy survival in exile. Despite being devastated, Ionion forced himself to continue to live off the energies with those that were left, if only out of fear of what would happen if he didn’t survive. The man was afraid of dying. He didn’t want to kill anymore, and felt guilty over the past murders that he committed, but those wouldn’t be his last. He had to continue to join in the efforts of killing other Highborne in order to help ensure his people’s survival. But in the mix of guilt, despair, and an accumulation of losses, Ionion grew more vulnerable madness.

His state was at a constant balancing act between sanity and insanity, due to all that had happened to with him. However, with sanity and guilt, he ended his loyalty to Prince Tortheldrin and agreed with the decision that an appeal needed to be made with the Kaldorei. However, making that appeal was something Ionion wouldn’t do. While some of the Highborne were sent to seek audience with the Kaldorei, others were sent to Dalaran as representatives to the Kirin Tor, and the latter would be Ionion’s destiny, as he was seen as a powerful enough mage for the job. Having been in Dalaran for months, Ionion has proven himself to the Kirin Tor and become a member of the magocracy. He has his sights set on becoming an archmage, but is currently in the process of learning more from the people he had been exiled from coming in contact with for so many millennia.