Kuru

Information

Player: TadanoHitoshi

Character Full Name: Kuru Veilglade

Character In-Game Name: Kuru

Nickname(s): none

Association(s): none

Race: Kal'dorei

Class: Priest

Age: 7641 years

Sex: Female

Hair: Long, purple, usually unbound

Eyes: Silver

Weight: 54kg

Height: 207cm

Appearance

Kuru is usually clad in relatively modest peasant's robes, unadorned with jewelry, though carrying a crescent-topped staff: a relic of her days as a priestess of Elune, and a satchel full of books, scribbled notes and assorted gewgaws and trinkets. She still possesses her old religious robes though seldom dons them.

Personality

Outwardly Kuru is courteous if not friendly though this is tempered by her innate night elven haughtiness toward non-Kal'dorei. She sees the shorter-lived races as most of her people do: reckless and impulsive and as such is not particularly one to hold grudges against them (why risk vengeance when one can simply outlive one's foe and see their works crumple with time?). She is wary of the sin'dorei, having seen the damage they - as the Highborne - wrought in Ashenvale as a child.

History

The sole offspring of Amuro and Aradesh Veilglade, Kuru was inducted into the priesthood of Elune at a young age. Her only memories of her childhood being decadal visits to the shaded family estate on the far outskirts of Ashenvale, though these are memories which she cherishes greatly. While her father was always engrossed in `his work`, the nature of which he did not reveal to the youth, she fondly remembers her mother's cooking and potions which cured her ills and fears as a child.

She was barely an adult when the reckless use of magic by the Highborne saw them expelled by the Kal'dorei. Having heard countless times of the Sundering and the damage caused by such hubris it was seared into her mind that one must always be careful with the power one wields.

Kuru's studies as a priestess of Elune were brought to an end when she received a letter from her mother Amuro summoning her back to the family estate when she was little over two thousand years old. Her father, whom she had always believed had been a hunter of some reputation, had been found dead on the border of kal'dorei land. The hatchet buried in his back indicated that he had been killed by trolls. Along with his corpse, the sentinels brought a stern warning for the family to remain within kal'dorei land.

Amuro decided it was time that her daughter learned the nature of her late father's work: ever since the Sundering and the night elves sealing themselves off from the other races of Azeroth, Aradesh had taken the task of keeping an eye on the races beyond their borders: searching for any potential hint of the power which had caused such devastation to the elves in the past. While some of his comrades, hunters by profession, patrolled the borders and used their pets to spy upon the other races, Aradesh – a former priest who had always been somewhat eccentric - had used esoteric arts to remotely spy upon the other races, projecting himself through the minds of the animals of the forest in order to keep watch. Over the years his spying beyond the elven borders had brought, amongst other races and groups, the trolls to his attention and fascinated him both with their customs and worship. After compiling volumes of research about them over the centuries he could not stop himself and, sneaking past the Kal'dorei's own border patrols, he ventured out to get a look at the Shatterspear in particular first hand, braving the treacherous terrain the tribe surrounded themselves with...and never made it back alive.

Kuru chose to forgo the priesthood in order to continue her father's work and immersed herself in his numerous tomes, pouring over cluttered sheaves of scribbled notes about and sketches, examining the few trinkets and artefacts he had managed to acquire or fashion in immitation. She learned all she could about the neighbouring races. From his books she also learned the powers he had used to project his consciousness and his will beyond his body, steadily praying less and less to Elune as she became obsessed with her work. Yet was it not true that the price of eternal peace was eternal vigilance?

Thus Aradesh's work – and what had been his growing obsession: a thirst for knowledge – continued in the form of his daughter. With her mother passing away a thousand years later she continued, unguided, to watch the world beyond the kal'dorei borders. When the Third War came to Ashenvale Kuru, unaccustomed to direct confrontation, watched with horror via the eyes of the animals of the forest. While she had for so long focused on the races that had been their neighbours for centuries in the end it was the orcs who broke the elves' seclusion, along with the return of the Burning Legion.

The coming of war to the kal'dorei once more saw their borders opened. Those of her father's friends who survived gave up their old ways, seeing such remote spying as no longer necessary, and Kuru - who had over the years grown distant from them - took the chance to at last venture beyond Ashenvale and explore the world firsthand.