Lopaki

Information

Player: ChampionMouse

Character Full Name: Lopaki Ironhide

Character In-Game Name: Lopaki

Nickname(s): “Pak-Pak”

Association(s): Shaman everywhere, The Horde

Race: Orc

Class: Shaman

Skills and Abilities: Lopaki utilizes most of the basic skills in a Shaman’s array, except with a heavy focus on Earth based abilities. With a good deal of concentration, she can move rocks by communicating with the Earth spirits and will them to rumble and strike her foes (Earth Shock with a bit of pizazz). Her healing is mediocre, and the Spirits of Air don’t seem all that interested in listening to anything she says because she is too “grounded” and not aloof enough. Her skills with lightning are positively terrible because of having their disfavor currently.

Age: 24

Sex: Female

Hair: Lopaki’s black hair is pulled back into a top-knot that is tied together with a simple leather strap.

Eyes: Blue

Weight: 330 lbs

Height: 6’4”

Appearance

Lopaki wears only very simple leathers consisting of a harness and plain brown britches. On her feet she wears a pair of sandals, and if she isn’t wearing them, she’s probably going barefoot. She’ll never wear heavy armor, always preferring to be unburdened by metals.

Other: Lopaki’s chest and arms are tattooed heavily, and she also wears a lot of decorative jewelry because of her many piercings. She often carries either a staff, or a set of two identical axes with her. These are the weapons she switches between, but she will never carry all of them at the same time as it would be too much of a burden.

Personality

Alignment: Neutral Good

Lopaki is a well learned Orc. She enjoys telling stories based off of the historical records she has read. She likes to study those she meets as well, often interrogating them to find out everything she can. She is fairly friendly, but intense in her questioning and socializing devices. She has less of an issue with personal space than most Orcs, not really caring so much when others get right up in her face. In turn, she may also be prone to intruding upon another’s space without really thinking anything of it. Despite her decently friendly nature, Lopaki is a willful woman and does not like being told what to do. She much prefers to present herself as being an independent wanderer and any person who gets in the way of how she sees herself will quickly earn her ire.

She is capable of great focus and will meditate for hours if she can. However, she prefers to be outside rather than inside when she does this, and is not so much a fan of buildings with walls and roofs. Being confined makes her a little anxious, so she tends to stay away from cities. Above all else, Lopaki takes her duties as a Shaman quite seriously.

History

Lopaki was born shortly before the start of the Second War, and because of such, had a rather turbulent childhood. Being too young to endure a land in such turmoil, she was often sent away to places deemed safer for her and did not get to spend that much time with her real family. She was fostered for a good while by the Frostwolves, and under their watchful eye began to study the basics of Shamanism. She didn’t show too much promise for anything at first, but they let her stubbornly continue to practice which was much akin to letting her bang her head against a wall.

In those days, she didn’t wander off. Orcs were being forced into Internment Camps and the thought of being so confined made her jittery. She liked it much better amongst the Frostwolves where she could sit by a campfire and hear the Elders tell stories of how life was before. Sometimes they even spoke of what they thought would happen next, and Lopaki always found a certain delight when they spoke politics and thought she wasn’t listening.

She never socialized much. She was always reluctant to approach the other pups. Often she would lose herself in reading or sitting and meditating, and when she did speak with the other children she appeared to be so curious and demanding with her questions about them that they often ran off thinking she was strange. She was like that often, either extremely quiet when she was concentrating on something important, or extremely intense. It was a fierce juxtaposition in her personality that made socializing properly a bit difficult for her.

There were those that didn’t mind her quirks, though. So she passed much of her free time with them. There was Mog’are, Junawe, and Bohg, her three best friends. They made up many games when they were not working or studying, some of them safer than others. There was one day when the pups decided to play a game that they aptly named “Spirits in the Snow.” It quickly devolved into throwing snow and ice balls at one another. During the course of the game, Mog’are hurled an iceball at Lopaki while she was in close range. Instinctually, the young girl put her arm out to slap the snow away, but the ice ball collided with her fist and cracked, spraying back in Mog’are’s face. A small chip of ice rebounded directly into his eye, putting an end to that game. After that, he often told Lopaki that she had an “iron hide,” since harmful things just bounced right off of her. Though he would bear the scar from the silly accident for the rest of his life, he never really blamed her, knowing full well it was some kind of clumsy fluke.

After Thrall freed the Orcs from the Internment Camps, the Third War was short in coming. Lopaki was not quite an adult, but the Orcs needed every body they could get to fuel the Horde War Machine, so to speak. She knew the basics of combat, and could at least apply basic first aid and cook food for camps if they needed. The four friends split up at this time, all of them pursuing different paths.

Lopaki went with her people when they traveled across the sea to Kalimdor, and was there with them when they met the Darkspear Trolls, saving them from invading Murlocs and Naga. She found the Trolls to be fascinating creatures, but she could never get one to sit still long enough to compare the traits of their tusk shape.

While she traveled she continued to learn from the Orcs around her, always trying her best to keep up with them. Meeting Orcs from different Clans with different ideas on how to communicate with the Spirits proved to be beneficial for her as well, and she quickly picked back up her Shaman studies and practices. She wasn’t extraordinary by any means, but she could feel the spirits and sometimes hear if they wanted something.

Kalimdor was a place that she fell in love with. Once they moved on from the Trolls, Lopaki was able to meet the nomadic Tauren who the Orcs rescued from their enemies the Centaur. It was here that Lopaki chose to stay for quite some time. She would learn from the Tauren while the Battle for Hyjal came and went. In fact, she stayed here for a while. The only time she would ever leave was to visit the Frostwolves and later, after it was built, Orgrimmar. Orgrimmar was a trip she did not take often at all, for the city was a bit intimidating to her senses compared to the open huts she had lived in for so long.

She grew into a fine young woman, taking her studies seriously while learning how to enjoy the more peaceful and tranquil sides of life from the Tauren. She cared for these bovine people like her own family in some ways, though they were much gentler than she remembered anyone else being.

Lopaki stayed out of the Northrend conflicts under the pretense of wanting to study, but she did not escape the horror stories that came down from there. She was not eager to go to a harsh and foreign place, but neither was she content to stay in one place forever. Perhaps it was the struggle of her people in Northrend that finally provoked her to travel, but either way…Lopaki now wanders the roads in search of friends and good stories.