Kaetrek

Information

Player: Kabluie

Character Full Name: Kaetrek Ironhelm

Character In-Game Name: Kaetrek

Nicknames: The Overzealous, Holy Wolf-head, Insane

Association(s): Alliance, Humans of Stormwind

Race: Human

Class: Paladin

Age: 27

Sex: Male

Hair: Average Brown

Eyes: Hazel

Weight: 205

Height: 6'0"

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Appearance

Usually carries an inscribed book around, maybe hosting a few Holy words and prayers, he wears plate armor, and wields a large axe. He always wears a wolf mask.

Other: He sometimes wears citizen clothes when he's in Stormwind, not fighting or worrying about anything.

Personality

Kaetrek can be a absent-minded freak one day, a kind-hearted paladin another. His mood changes on what is happening around him. He can overreact, and that is what makes him what he is; a fool, a sucker for punishment. He'll take an insult as a instant asking for a fight. No questions asked. Kaetrek is headstrong, and sometimes very stupid. He respects women like they are relics, but is embarressing when talking to one.

History

Kaetrek originally lived in Lordaeron. As plague spread throughout the land of prosperous Lordaeron, he lived through his childhood. His mother succumbed to the plague, and his father sent him with a couple of Dwarven and Human people, who knew escape needed to be now before they fell to the plague as well. His father came with him, his last drop of hope during the journey towards more hospitable lands. His father was a great warrior with the Axe, being taught by dwarves and humans alike from his earnings he had gotten from his farmland outside of Lordaeron. Kaetrek was being taught by his father to wield one before the plague came. Now, I do know I am skipping to how he escaped, so I'll take a step back and tell you about Kaetrek's childhood instead. He was born by Ardraeon Ironhelm and Rabela Arenethorn, being a healthy child. He was playful, and fit.

Kaetrek had a lot of friends. He learned to write, and he worked on his father's farm for his own small amount of pocket money. His mother treated him like a relic, being a bit over-protective of him when he went to unknown streets to play with other children he knew. He complained, but he listened to his mother. They had a bond together, and same with his father. He disliked his father more than his mother for making him do alot of farm work, but he still liked his dad even as a friend. His father taught him what he learned from his teachers in wielding an axe, and they practiced together with wooden replicas of axes, because they couldn't afford two themselves, and his father, Ardraeon, thought it would be unfair if he had a real axe and his son didn't. Kaetrek grew up to be healthy, and strong.

He fell into a romance with Arella Silkstream, but the relationship quickly failed due to him being a hopeless wreck around her, and not helping her at all with anything in her life. He was a wreck around all women at this point, and was hopeless to get into a relationship. He had some tough times in his early teens, and then the rumors of the plague spread around the city. Some of his friends became sick, and his mother kept him indoors. His mother now was well-off and owned a tailoring shop. The problem is, his mother had to go to this small housing, go behind a counter with citizens walking all around the shop touching clothing that she washes the next day, some coughing and sneezing on them. She complained most of the time she was home, and then she fell to the plague, coughing and sneezing. She couldn't go to work anymore, and the family's gains started to fade. They held each other only by love, then his mother died due to not enough money to get any treatment, or any support what so ever. Although she would have died any way, it was at the worst time it could possibly have happened. His father was packing bags one morning, and asked, "What are you doing, poppa'?"

"Packin'. We're leavin' this place, plague rum--- Nevermind, I'll tell ya when we leave, alright, son?" he replied.

Kaetrek nodded, and his father told him,

"Go to your room and pick your favorite toys and things that would entertain you -- Oh, and bring your bed coverings, and your wooden axe."

His father gave him a warm smile, then Kaetrek returned to his bedroom, packing his favored and needed belongings into a large leather bag his parents had since before he was born, when they first moved into this home he would never see again, when they fell in love. He waved to the sky as he walked out of the door with his father, weeping, saying, "I'll miss you, momma'... I'll miss you so much, momma'..."

He cried the whole way out of Lordaeron. His father wept as well. He told Kaetrek, "At least the world had mercy on us... I've got some 'buds' that will come with us to safer lands,"

Then Kaetrek interrupted, "But dad, what about momma'? Will she be alright? Will she be safe up in the skies?"

His dad reassured him, "Yes, my son. Your mother was a good person. She'll be safe up there, and she'll be damn well proud of you for taking such courage, after all that's happened to ya."

Ardraeon patted Kaetrek on the back, and gave him a warm smile. They looked at each other for a moment, then a burly dwarf in rugged clothes and a human man and a woman that Kaetrek somewhat recognized came towards them, and the dwarf said, "'Aight, we're gonna' geh' this show on tha' path? Le's go before one o' us get's green spew comin' out a' us as well."

The two humans beside him mumble in agreement, and they walk out of the city gates, bags and luggage carried, leaving their home behind. Kaetrek and his father wept again, and his father said a prayer to the sky. Ardraeon believed in the Holy Light, and went to the chapel each second day. The group chatted, excluding Kaetrek, because of more adult-like matters. He was now in adult-hood, but still did not understand what was going on, being treated like a almost-teen child for most of his life. They were ambushed by bandits along the road, and his father sacrificed himself to save the group, as he bought a steel axe just before plague rumors spread. This only worsened his current emotions. He gripped his wooden axe by his side always, one of his only few memories and solid evidence of his father. He began to lose his mind, thinking negative thoughts every second.

The woman out of the three in the party that remained with him tried to give him thoughts of warmth and safety, and told him stories when they set up camp along the way. This was his only source of comfort. When they reached Southshore Harbor, it was only the woman and him, both very pale and thin left. A sailor just starting a ship sailing towards Elwynn felt sorry for the losses of the child and the woman, both very courageous, took them into his little home and fed them as much as he could, and smuggled them onto the ship, in a sack of supplies. Kaetrek thanked the woman for helping him through this whole situation, and he started to see her as his step-mother, doing all she could to keep her new objective safe; the child. They reached Elwynn, at last, and were ambushed by bandits. A stormwind patrol found them just as they were being pulled into the bushes, and they arrested the bandit. They quickly took the two to Stormwind quickly, them being almost dead due to illness and starvation.

They were fed, and they told the story to the people who aided them in Stormwind. They began to gain strength, and he felt emotional ties to the "step mom." She had experience in tailoring, and worked at a shop. After a couple of years moving about over and over again to people that had sympathy for them, they earned enough money to rent a part of a small house. They had two rooms, one for both. The people who lived close to them were confused, the lady treating this man in his early twenties like a 10 year old. They were stolen from quite a bit, because of their lack of security and money in general. Kaetrek volunteered for the Stormwind Army, and fought a small bit for them. He was injured and was given medal of honor, and was sent to a first-aid house to be bandaged and healed.

Once back at Stormwind, he attempted to find his step-mother, but he couldn't find her. He gave up, and used the money he had earned from the Stormwind Army to buy a house. He learned blacksmithing from a dwarf, and told him his story. He began to get better and better, until he opened up a blacksmithing shop to sell weapons he crafted while being trained. Kaetrek made a steady earning off of it, and started to go to the Cathedral of Light to pray to the Light that his parents would be okay in the after-life. He was taught by paladins and priests there to wield the Light to his advantage, and to wish him well further in his life, hearing the stories and tragedies of his life already. Kaetrek made the stories sound worse so he got more profit from it, but he never changed the story, staying true to his heart. Staying true to his parents.