Elria

Player: Vaetai

Character Full Name: Elria Thistlemoon

Character In-Game Name: Elria

Nickname(s): Ria

Association(s): The Sentinels

Race: Night Elf (Kaldorei)

Class: Hunter

Skills and Abilities: During her younger years Elria picked up abilities in climbing, camouflage, ranged weapons(bows and throwing knives) and tracking, allowing her to become a skilled hunter and reliable scout.

Age: 475

Sex: Female

Hair: Green, short

Eyes: Glowing white

Weight: 278lbs

Height: 7 feet tall

Usual Garments/Armor: Elria wears a combination of mail and leather, for increased mobility and to make it harder on herself when she takes a hit. If her armor is broken or destroyed she will wear whatever she comes across, that being an animal pelt or even a bright pink shirt. She covers her face when she goes on a hunt(or a job). When facing single opponents she takes her time in finding the right moment to procure a one-shot one-kill strike. But when facing multiple enemies she will take out the rearmost, then the frontmost, forcing them into a defencive stance. She will then take them out slowly at her own leisure.

Alignment: Chaotic neutral

Personality: Elria's mannerisms dictate her to be a cautious elf. She distrusts everyone regardless of race, faith or gender. Elria keeps her distance, and always tries to hide or if possible, leave her emotions behind. She is deceivingly friendly when in public gatherings or towns/cities. She is the type who would one moment be offering you a drink, and the next be planting an arrow, knife or bullet into your skull.

History: Elria grew up as a troublemaker, having a passion for one thing, distance. Whenever she was bullied or was in trouble she found herself always searching for a method to create distance from her opponent. As she grew she became focused towards becomming a sentinel, one who specified in ranged combat. Her passion for range grew as her skills with the bow did also. Elria's training took off from her first lesson in melee combat, where she proved her skills at dodging and running were stronger than her skills with the blade. Elria eventually became a skilled tracker, using her bow and slowly increasing skills to hunt down those who did wrong to the Kaldorei, though due to her training and her age, Elria was unable to participate in the battle for Hyjal, she was sent after those that committed crimes during the event's aftermath.

Through this, Elria learnt of her newly gained mortality, which to her increased the enjoyment of going on dangerous missions. To be truthful, Elria felt no real connection to the world tree, she always tended to keep any thought of such matters to a minimum. Only realising it's importance after it was destroyed. From there Elria was tasked as a bounty hunter for her skill with the bow, during which she silently blamed the loss of the world tree on the other elves. She then slowly secluded herself from society. On one unfortunate night, Elria was given the order to assassinate some rogue elves who were harbouring and assisting the Satyrs. Elria took a swift hold to honor and set out for the hunt, not knowing that her target was her own parents.

She travelled through the forest, as silently as possible, found herself a good viewpoint and then played the waiting game. She waited for two days in this spot among the tree's, when something caught the corner of her eye. It was two elves, and a satyr walking in the forest. All of whom were speaking in darnassian about resolved problems and what appeared to be a 'surprise' for the elves. She found the voices to be something she had once heard before, but she could not place her finger on it. So she silently drew and arrow and stalked her prey to a more suitable location. Once she was in position, she let arrows fly each hitting their target within a moment of eachother, each newly-made corpse falling to the ground in a heap. She waited for 5 minutes to ensure that no others were waiting in ambush, then proceeded to move towards the bodies to grab proof of the completion of the task, as she moved the bodies to gain the proof she discovered the cold, dead faces of her parents and a satyr. Mixed emotions sturred, in which Elria removed her arrows, found her proof and vanished once again into the forest. Elria secluded herself from the towns almost entirely, only rarely entering towns and villages to gain work or supplies.

Elria eventually moved across to ashenvale, where she gained more work from the villages to remove some of the horde threat. The usual task would be to 'remove' horde or other 'bad' influences. On one particular day, she found a poster with the head of an elf, the description claiming this elf to be a menace, and really tall. This elf's name was Izshandriel, and so Elria set off to scour the forest of ashenvale to find her prey. Elria did not realize she had finally bitten off more than she could chew. She scoured the forest for tracks, scents, campsites or anything else she could find. She eventually decided to cross closer towards the horde camps, and along a river she found a peculiar dressed elf, drinking from the river. Elria did not recognise her target until she stood up, in which elria sent an arrow flying towards the woman. The arrow buried itself in the woman's shoulder, she quickly ran off into the forest, Elria in persuit. A slow paced battle followed, Elria sending arrows, and Izshandriel firing from her bow what appeared to be metal rails. Elria continued her chase until the crossed a river. Where Elria lost sight of her target. She attempted to lure the target out into an ambush, so she ran upwards, up a hidden path towards an old Kaldorei grave site. She quickly hid herself and waited, only moments later her target appeared from the hill, announcing her compliments to being led into an obvious trap. Elria let loose a volley of arrows and when out, throwing knives. Izshandriel drew two massive blades from her back, deflecting the arrows and simply letting the knives hit, showing only minor pain.

Elria realized finally that she did not have a chance to survive in this situation, and in such used everything in her power to at least wound Izshandriel in a way to make her vulnerable. Which ended up with a simple throwing knife, missing an important artery and Izshandriel's blades, lined up against Elria's throat for an execution. But then the most peculiar thing happened, in the diologue that followed, Izshandriel gave Elria a choice, to die like the untamed animal she is, or to follow Izshandriel. Elria did not know whether this was a sign of compassion, or simply that Izshandriel wanted to train her own soldier. But one thing was made very clear by Izshandriel. If Elria chose to follow her, she would go through everything that Izshandriel went through in her life, it was promised to her. As a reluctant but shameful way in Elria's mind to follow her enemy, she decided to keep herself alive. In which she followed Izshandriel, and accepted to become her student, with the bonus of herself becomming increasingly powerful. Elria made her decision to follow Izshandriel, and wonders every day when her torment will end, when Izshandriel will either kill her, or be killed herself.