Anka

Information

Player: Esthrunil

Character Full Name: Anka, Daughter of Rondek

Character In-Game Name: Anka

Nickname(s): None

Association(s): Formerly the Stormreaver Clan, currently the Horde. Primarily independent.

Race: Orc

Class: Necromancer

Age: 47

Sex: Female

Hair: Black, greying and let to fall as it grows, groomed lightly.

Eyes: Brown with flecks of red.

Weight: 258 Lbs.

Height: 6'1”

Appearance

Anka favors heavy robes and such, disguising her otherwise frail looking form under large garments. She does not wear armor, but she does have a tendency to carry a large number of supplies tied to straps on her robes.

Other: Anka's skin is a rather pale, sickly color. She carries a sharpened knife at all times, mostly out of utility. Furthermore, corpse and skull paint is not an uncommon part of her ritualistic outfits.

Personality

As it is, Anka has a curious personality. Due to corruption from her studies, she adores the undead and all things related, finding this compulsion difficult to control at times. She struggles with keeping her corruption in check and retaining her proud Orcish side. She has a tendency to fall into a hermit-like lifestyle and shun contact with the living. Every day has become a power struggle between her will and her corruption, in order to at least die with some honor.

She has taken to making her practice of necromancy much more spiritual than it once was, working rituals and adopting a philosophy on life and death that allows her to justify her magic. Justification is a big part of it all, for her. She is unwilling to give up her old magic, but instead wants to use it to a better end than she once did. She is teetering on the brink every day of her life, and understands that it may be such a struggle for the rest of her existence.

For the most part, she ignores her past, though she desires to see her family members again, if at all possible.

History

Anka was born to a young Orcish shaman turned warlock and his mate in a relatively small, unremarkable clan. The years of Anka's childhood were chaotic and dangerous at best. She spent much of her time under her father's wing, learning her people's culture as well as the basics of her father's mysticism. Alas, it was not long before her life was fully touched by the corruption her people had suffered from, and her family was one of a number that left their clan in order to pursue Gul'dan's interests as part of the Stormreaver Clan.

As a member of the Stormreaver Clan, Anka began her training as a Necrolyte under the tutelage of a few members of the Clan. They taught her loyalty to the Clan, as well as the dark arts of the Necrolyte. She was a quick learner and proved to be fiercely loyal to Gul'dan's thirst for power, learning the raising of the dead as well as the manipulation of death magic. When Gul'dan slew a great number of the Necrolytes to create the deadly riders known as Death Knights, Anka was just barely finishing her training and, as such, was not deemed prepared for the honor.

Over the next few years, Anka finally stepped through the Dark Portal with her father and a small assortment of other family members, starting her part in the Horde war effort. She was a useful asset and gained her surname, Skinflayer, through her interest and experimentation in flaying prisoners alive before raising them as skeletons. It wasn't long after she began her part, however, that the Horde began taking major hits, with many clans finding themselves captured and imprisoned. In a raid conducted by a small regiment of human soldiers, Anka found herself separated from her brethren and hiding to avoid her untimely demise.

Evading human soldiers was a difficult task for several months, until Anka came across a group of refugees, hiding out as a single unit. She stayed with them for a few years, waiting for a call to arms from Gul'dan, for his clan. Receiving no such call, Anka felt betrayed. The promises of glory and power that Gul'dan had given all those he enticed weren't fulfilled, and from what Anka heard, they never would be. Seeing much more clearly, Anka became embittered and tore her fierce loyalty away from Gul'dan and his Stormreaver Clan, hard though it was.

The Lethargy was a great contributing factor in this period of Anka's life. Though it was hard to live and think through, it forced her to understand that Gul'dan, one she had believed would be the herald of a new day in Orcish history, was little more than a manipulative false prophet. Seeing all she had worked for crumbling away, she made a decision to continue as she was, a Necrolyte – whether it was in secret or in public, she wouldn't know. Her studies were all she had at this point, and they filled the void that the Lethargy had brought about. For the next few years, she secretively hoarded more and more information on her studies.

When Thrall had become the savior of the Orcs, Anka made herself known only as Anka, Daughter of Rondek. She knew that Necrolytes would not easily be accepted by her people, so she decided to keep most of her life a well-kept secret, down to every little atrocity she'd committed in her time during the wars. It was around this time that she took to being more of a recluse, spending much of her time thinking of what she could possibly do. She would spend many days studying and in her head, thinking of everything thus far and trying to solve it. She had, at this point, become far more dependent on her usage of necromantic magic than she could have thought. Not willing to admit it, it consumed her thoughts and much of her life for some time.

It was recently that Anka had finally broken free of her state, in a way. On a fleeting whim, she decided to start watching others in their day to day lives. It was in one of these more lucid moments that a thought hit Anka – there was more to the world than her studying and the life of a hermit. She recalled the days in her life where she had contact with something more than her skeletons and corpses. Fond memories touched her mind and jarred her just enough to tear her mind away from the considerable corruption that had already taken place. She spent a great deal of her time now meditating on this thought and the fonder memories of contact with the living, curious about it all.

In the present day, Anka is in a state of considerable corruption from her studies. She is torn between moving out and affecting others in a way that could bring about the glory of the Horde she'd wanted to see so long ago, and merely staying in her, “comfort zone” with her studies. This affects her everyday life and is a considerable conflict, but she is determined enough to break free of the chain, at the moment. She left her cave for the first time in weeks, for example.