Seija
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- Player: Etmosril
- Character Full Name: Seija
- Character In-Game Name: Seija
- Nickname(s): None
- Association(s): Draenei, Shattrath, Alliance, and Paladins
- Race: Draenei
- Class: Paladin
- Age: 21,463
- Sex: Female
- Hair: Black and quite straight. She likes to wear it in a variety of styles.
- Eyes: The usual glowing silver, perhaps a bit bluer than usual.
- Weight: 263lbs
- Height: 7'2
- Alignment: Chaotic Good
Appearance
Usual Garments/Armor: Seija likes robes for everyday wear, and usually favors the colors white, orange, and purple. She will wear anything for armor as long as it's available (and has expressed on more than one occasion her distaste with the scanty plate/mail of Azeroth.)
Other: Her hooves are shod. Because of her surroundings, this means she can only travel on roads.
Personality
Plainly a good person, but not dogmatic or overbearing. She is disdainful of the whole concept of the moral-crusader paladin, and will point out to any listeners that most of the those who sit around boasting or having their armor polished never actually do anything. She believes very strongly in the Naaru and their promised salvation (but prefers that you not ask about her beliefs, because she considers it a private matter. She is also convinced she will be a paladin in the Army of Light.) Just because she doesn't talk about it doesn't mean she's a pushover: she's kept her belief and strength for thousands of years and it is literally impossible to sway her.
She is very good with Common, using it with barely an accent - though her manner of speech is somewhat roundabout and lacking in contractions of any words. She tends to express new ideas or things that she doesn't have the words for in VERY odd ways.
New people and places make her rather disoriented and prone to ask too many questions. They also exacerbate her hearing problems.
Enjoys jewelcrafting and mining - she's not even passable with any other professions and is particularly horrible with cooking. It's probably a good idea not to try anything she offers out of hospitality if she says she cooked it herself. (Likewise, she is a bit skeptical of Human food after learning that they regularly use milk products.)
She is hard of hearing. Most of the time she can disguise this by standing closer to the people she's speaking to. When she's alone and everything around is quiet, she tends to 'hear' things that aren't there. When this happens at night, she loses sleep over searching the area to make sure there's nothing around.
She has a very un-Draenic intolerance towards some species of the Horde (particularly Orcs, which she will not speak to or work with under any circumstances. In some very bad cases, they have been KOS.) Gnomes and Night Elves are easily her favorite races of Azeroth, and she will associate with them as freely as her own kind. Humans are an area of study, and Dwarves are, at best, a bucolic curiosity. The exception to those racial rules are paladins; she will be friendlier towards them than she would be towards the rest of their race.
History
Seija was very young when she left Argus with her mother and several grandparents (her father was corrupted.) She was too young to memorize the events that transpired, but to this day, she has a vague sense of what living in Mac'Aree was like and sometimes has dreams about her own poorly-interpreted version.
Her home life while on Oshu'gun was happy. For a few years, she was still relatively naive as to why the older Draenei were so bereft and hurt after the loss of their planet and kin. The only things she did understand clearly - and had as soon as she saw one from a distance - were the Naaru, whom she loved.
It was her affinity for the Holy Light that convinced her mother that she would be a decent priest if trained. This didn't turn out very well - although a quiet and respectful child, she was not suitable for it in the slightest. She refused to sit down and learn like the others, and more seriously, she saw prayers as being complaints and pleas to fix problems. Her education was dropped entirely after a few particularly bad incidents.
This was a difficult point in her life. She was just hitting her adolescence, and was beginning to understand the full implications of what had been done to her race. She started researching and asking elders about the departure from Argus. Later those inquiries extended to many other Draenei, all of whom contributed their stories on the matter.
She began to compile them into a personal sourcebook of sorts. Those helped distract her and put her own problems in perspective. She also picked up jewelcrafting as another shallow distraction - and found it to be a better form of meditation for her than what she had done during her early priest training. Both helped her immeasurably.
Until this point Seija had been casually practicing weaponwork, since she was too energetic to just research and craft jewels. She became familiar with a few of the paladins she practiced with and decided to try their training - after all, she did follow the Light, didn't she? It was a success. She worked steadily and advanced for several thousand more years, until Oshu'gun landed on Draenor and the Draenei began to explore this different world. By this point she was a full-fledged (and fairly green) Holy paladin.
The event that followed (the corruption of the Orcs by Gul'dan, and their brutal attack of the Draenei) was her first call to arms. The only thing that kept her alive during this period was the fact she was stationed in a relatively safe area (Zangarmarsh.) Her mother, two grandparents, and her former mentor in priesthood all died within eight years. Seija coped as she always had: with her gemcrafting and the book of Draenei lives. She rejoined the rest as they traveled to Netherstorm to regain Tempest Keep.
She was unfortunately situated during the escape. Although she was lucky enough to avoid being struck and killed by debris, she was nearly deafened during the engine's explosion. She slowly regained some degree of hearing during her days of exploration in Ammen Vale.
She was sent to Stormwind quite recently as a civilian (and to research Human paladin techniques). Disgusted by what she found there, she left human lands for good. A few months later she discovered Ashenvale. She now resides in Astranaar, working as a jewelcrafter and fisherman, and seems pleased to remain there forever if it comes to such.
