Surienna

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Player: Seraphim

Character Full Name: Surienna Grovesworn

Character In-Game Name: Surienna

Nickname(s): Surry, 'Stick-Eater'

Association(s): The Alliance, Silverwing Sentinels

Race: Night Elf

Class: Warrior

Skills and Abilities: Surienna has fought enough to become a honed warrior with her monstrous axe and twisted punching dagger. She makes up for a lack of focus and care with incredible raw strength and pain tolerance.

Age: 212

Sex: Female

Hair: Light Blue

Eyes: Silver

Weight: 217 lbs

Height: 6'4"

Scale: .95

Appearance

Surienna wears a dirty suit of mixed leather and plate armor; she has recently taken to wearing an intimidating spiked helmet and shoulderguards as well. She is short for her species and has a youthful, heart-shaped face. She is not particularly happy about either feature. Surienna is well-muscled and athletic, but has almost nothing in the way of curves.

Personality

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Surienna is brash, headstrong, and feral with a strong competitive streak. She can come off as downright mean to strangers, as she is impatient and sarcastic in conversation. Surienna always prefers action to idle discussion. If she bothers to be involved in a conversation, it is usually to find out where something is and how she can get it.

Surry, as she sometimes prefers to be called, also exhibits traits that give away her relative youth. She is curious to a fault, and will often imitate those she admires. When frustrated, she throws something of a fit, kicking at the ground and grumbling under her breath.

Perhaps the most immediately obvious thing about Surienna's personality is her outspoken hatred of orcs. Her vendetta with them appears to begin with the deforestation of Ashenvale, though other factors may be at work. In fact, she thinks poorly of the entire Horde and much of the Alliance, as she cannot comprehend why the Allies do not simply march on their enemies' capitals and wipe them off the face of Kalimdor. She seems to think that such a conflict would result in inevitable victory for her people, hinting at her lack of real wartime experience.

It should be noted that Surienna's Common is not very skillful or proper- She learned the language by listening to the lower denizens of human cities speaking it, and thus, her pronunciation of certain words is hurried or incorrect. Lacking a strong understanding of the language, she often uses human curses as a sort of verbal crutch. That said, she did go out of her way to learn the most offensive Darnassian phrases in the human language. "Satyr-lover" and "Fel-sucker" are two of her favorite insults.

Surienna is perfectly fluent and much more eloquent in Darnassian, though she is illiterate in both languages. She prefers to speak in Common unless her limited vocabulary forces her into her native tongue; another form of subtle rebellion against the older members of her race. However, she will speak Darnassian to those she feels comfortable around. It should be noted that this list of people is exceptionally short.

History

Surienna was born long after the major conflicts of the Night Elven people. Her mother was a warrior and Sentinel of Astranaar, and her father a Druid of the Talon. She was conceived during one of the rare, brief meetings of her parents when her father was awake.

Surienna never spent much time with her mother, growing up. From a young age, she sought out the natural world beyond Astranaar, going as far into the untamed wilderness as the adult elves of the town would allow. There, she learned survival skills and gained an affinity for nature. In the few moments she had with her mother, she learned of combat.

By the time the orcs invaded Ashenvale, Surienna was anxious to join her mother and fight in defense of her home. She was young by Night Elven standards, but still she demanded to be sent to Hyjal. Yet, as per the wishes of her mother, the adults of Astranaar would not allow her to enter the fray. They would have no choice but to physically restrain Surienna after at least two failed attempts to sneak off to battle. In the end, her father (whom Surienna had never met) was awoken with the other druids, and both parents left to fight the Burning Legion. Azeroth would be saved, but at a terrible price. The world tree was destroyed, and Surienna's mother returned alone, becoming even more distant from her wayward daughter in the years to come.

In the aftermath of the war, Surienna left the sanctuary of Astranaar and exiled herself to the forest. There, she learned the skills to survive on her own, all the while scheming to wage her own conflict against the orcs and eventually the entire Horde. She found that there was little she could do by herself, so she attempted to join with the Silverwing Sentinels.

Surienna became friends with several members of the group, but was never allowed to join. She was seen as being too impulsive, too extreme, and completely incapable of working with others. Angry and disillusioned, Surienna gave up on her crusade and traveled to other lands, where she settled into a life of treasure-hunting and practicing her skills.

Following the Cataclysm and subsequent Warsong incursion into Ashenvale, Surienna snapped. She returned home to resume her war against Orc-kind, this time employing the aid of anyone and anything she could get her hands on. She now targets any Orc, not just those directly involved in the conflict, and so Surienna teeters precariously on the thin line between warrior and murderer.


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