Coria

Information

Player: Mathias

Character Full Name: Coria Dawnseeker

Character In-Game Name: Coria

Nickname(s): Fel-sucker, Sister, Blood Knight

Association(s): Blood Knights, Quel'thalas

Race: Sin'dorei

Class: Paladin

Age: 152

Sex: Female

Hair: Redhead

Eyes: Fel-green

Weight: 120

Height: 5'3”

Alignment: Lawful Good

Appearance

Coria is typically wearing her Blood Knight armor and tabard when she is in the middle of an investigation. Her warblade is strapped to her back and ready at a moment's notice. Her tabard is as slashed up as her face, but she doesn't seem to mind.

Her face is completely disfigured, removing any beauty that she had. Many of the scars avoid the area around her right eye, which was burned and she had covered with her hair. She also sports a Gilneas Grin. She will refuse any treatment anyone offers her for her scars.

Personality

Coria has been doing her best to act as a paladin ever since the Sunwell and the sin'dorei were redeemed by M'uru's sacrifice. She despises paladins who believe that they need to only kill demons to serve the Light, noting that demon slaying isn't going to feed a beggar or save an orphan. She believes everyone should smile more often, but this might be a joke about her Gilneas Grin.

History

Coria Dawnseeker was born into a moderately well-off family. They were true worshippers of the Light, and they wanted Coria to become a priest to aid others throughout the Eastern Kingdoms. Training was all Coria would know for the many years to come, and the Priesthood would become her family. Everyone else seemed to be happy with the choice, so Coria didn't mind at all and worked hard.

Coria grew up around rumors, but mostly about childish things that no sane adult would believe. She loved investigating them when she had the time. Each time the childish rumor would prove to be false, and she would boast about it whenever she heard the rumor again. Some children asked her why she was against them having fun, but she believed the fun was in discovering the truth of the rumor.

Coria eventually stopped her investigation so she could focus fully on her training, though she believed she would serve more good helping a beggar than studying. She never made her thoughts known, and she would continue her training until she was an adult, and her training finished right around the same time as the First War ended.

Quel'thalas would send a meager force to Lordaeron to aid the Alliance, and Coria would be a part of this force and serve in the fields to heal the wounded. She would eventually meet a Matthew Hunter and form a relationship with him. She never considered it as something serious, and enjoyed the small flirts here and there which annoyed others. Matthew would end the relationship months later, and the two seemed to be enemies for a bit.

She spent most of her time during the war healing the wounded and making small chit-chat with the soldiers she worked on. She wouldn't see Matthew again until she was sent with him to Quel'thalas. She failed to become friends with him, as he now hated elves with a passion.

On Quel'thalas; this would be the first time Coria used her Light given powers to harm instead of heal. When she heard the orcs broke their way into her homeland and burned the forests down, she was worried about the children who might have watched their parents die or the innocents dragged off for the orcs to use their strange magic on. This worry would turn to anger, and she would call about the Light to smite the invading orcs and trolls. She wished to never do that again after the Horde was pushed out of Quel'thalas.

The Second War would soon end in Alliance victory, but Coria would stay in human lands for a time to travel throughout the Eastern Kingdoms to provide aid for those who were victims in the war. She would spend her time spreading the teachings of the Light and seemed to find true happiness doing so. She would also travel alone, believing her faith would protect her. She would be mistaken.

Coria would meet Matthew as he patrolled the road to Stratholme, and tried to start some friendly chit-chat with him. Matthew would have none of it, and would talk over her just to throw a common elf insult at her. It was pointless to continue further, so she left after she asked, “You had no trouble fighting with me in Quel'thalas. Why do you have trouble being my friend?” She suspected that he might have spat at her as she left.

Coria would eventually try to return to Quel'thalas, but a blackjack to the head ended those thoughts. She wasn't fully knocked-out, but she had trouble opening her eyes so couldn't tell where she was going. When she could open them, she was in a single room building with only a single candle providing light. She was being bound to a chair while the kidnappers, three humans, called her by a name she didn't recognize. As soon as she was tightly bound, they started their treatment.

For the first month, Coria would be beaten and kicked. She was provided with one meal a day and this meal would always come after they were done with their beating. Beat-eat-beat was how each day would turn out, but Coria would not let herself die so quickly. Each night before she slept, she would pray to the Light for a rescue.

The second month is when they started using magic on her when she didn't respond to the name they gave her. She started to lose track of the days as there were no windows in the house, and weeks would become days to her. They eventually started to scar her face if she ever fell asleep during the magic treatment. She tried to resist at first, but soon felt dead enough that she couldn't even bother with a smile.

Coria was soon as good as dead in that small room and scarring and beatings would become the main forms of torture for her. When she no longer made any noise when they called her by the false name, they started to toy with her. “Come on, Freja,” they would beckon her. “Smile for us, Freja.” When no response came, they lifted her head and used their thumb and forefinger to make her smile. “Beautiful, like one of those Gilneas girls.” They picked up a blade and opened her mouth, putting the blade in, “You should always smile like them, Freja.” That was the moment she was given her signature Gilneas Grin.

Coria would eventually find herself taken from the room and snuck into Quel'thalas, her limp body being carried by the three of them. She was eventually dropped off at the doorstep of some noble's estate, bleeding and her eyes showing no emotion. She would be found by the noble's daughter, Freja.

Coria's scarred were not healed, but she was provided with the best treatment that Freja could force out of her father. The priestess and noble's daughter looked eerily similar, or they did before Coria was tortured. Freja would hug Coria and apologize for what she had to go through, soaking Coria's shoulder with tears. Coria would be cared for by Freja until Coria could function normally again. She refused treatment for the scars, saying she was going to find the kidnappers who did this to her and show them “My beautiful Gilneas Grin”.

She returned to Lordaeron to continue her work as a priest, but many couldn't help but stop and stare at her face. She shrugged it off, tracing the scars that made her grin and looking as content with her life as ever.

The undead plague would come to the land, and Coria would serve with the Alliance once again. She served with Matthew again, but the two didn't recognize one another as Coria was scarred and Matthew was wearing a helmet. Coria left with Jaina when Arthas purged Stratholme, returning to help bury the dead with a few of the soldiers who were already working. She would follow Jaina when she decided to travel to Kalimdor, and would meet Matthew on the ships. They were friendly, and it seemed it would stay that way.

Coria would take up the smiting with the Light once again on Kalimdor, fighting back-to-back with Matthew against the strange creatures and the Orc and Night Elves they would meet there. And she would follow right behind him at Hyjal as he charged to both lines to fight there, helping him drag bodies out of the field. When the battle ended, and the human would found a new kingdom on Kalimdor, she elected to go back to the Eastern Kingdoms to help her own people in Quel'thalas. Matthew promised to write when he could, and they both bonked each other on the head with Coria needing to jump to accomplish this.

She arrived to a shattered kingdom, and a people who were suffering. Her faith was also shattered as she saw former priests without their powers. She questioned why the Light would abandon her people and allow the undead to weaken them, but worked on giving her people hope. Eventually her powers would be lost, and she would suffer the same pains as her people. She now looked to her Prince instead of the Light to give her salvation.

Salvation would come in the form of draining magic, and stealing the Light from a creature that Coria described as “A diamond windchime”. She would happily take the Light from this creature, and joined the ranks of the Blood Knights. She trained each day to properly bring retribution down on the undead ranks and those who would leave the sin'dorei for dead. She was eventually sent beyond the Dark Portal with the Horde to push back the Burning Legion.

With the betrayal of Kael'thas to his people, and his restealing of M'uru from his people who needed the windchime, Coria joined the Shattered Sun Offensive to see that Kil'jaeden would not be brought into the world. She wasn't there for the battle, but she would arrive to watch the Sunwell be revived by the spark of M'uru. She sat down to try and understand why M'uru would sacrifice himself to save the people who drained him of his powers, and finally understood that the Light loved her people despite everything.

She served in Northrend, but it was nothing noteworthy. She has mostly spent her time trying to catch up on everything she hasn't been doing since she became a Blood Knight, mainly pilgrimages, aiding the poor, and taking orphans on trips around Azeroth to inspire them and make sure they don't grow up to become pickpockets. She realized she never kept in contact with Matthew like she said, but assumed he died in Theramore. But she seems to be content with her life once again.