Saanto

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Player: Terant

Character full name: Saanto

Character in-game name: Saanto

Nickname(s): (None)

Association(s): Draenei, The Kirin Tor

Race: Draenei

Class: Archmage

Age: 26,742

Sex: Female

Hair: Long, straight, and silver

Eyes: Bright, glowing blue

Weight: 234 lb.

Height: 7'3

Appearance

Saanto is usually wearing ornate robes, comfortable civilian cloth outfits, or more protective clothing for engineering.

Other: She is both a mage and an engineer. Most of the devices she builds have to do with traveling of some kind.

Personality

Saanto tries to be friendly when she's around others, but she can often become seemingly cold and distant once she gets bored of someone or something, although this usually means she is just thinking too much. What she enjoys most is learning about anything. Saanto absolutely loves reading and teaching herself about any subject matter available at the time.

Because she was alive before her people had to leave Argus, Saanto's personality is less geared toward the Light than many of her kin. She instead chooses to study the Arcane because of the traditional Eredar love of knowledge that she holds onto.

History

Saanto was one of the few Draenei who fled Argus with Velen on the Naaru ship about 25,000 years go. She was relatively young for an Eredar at the time, so she was with her parents when her people fled the corrupted world and the Man'ari Eredar who had taken over Saanto's once rich and beautiful home world.

For thousands of years, Saanto was either living on some strange, new, exotic world or on the Naaru ship. At each world, the Burning Legion would come and her people would be forced to evacuate once again. During this time, Saanto learned many things. Knowledge was for Saanto what food and drink were for others. She learned of the Light, of arcane magic, and of many kinds of science. Saanto even took the time to study the cultures and histories of each race of each world her people visited. As the ship did not hold much in the way of recreation, Saanto's primary activities were studying and training to perfect her Arcane talents.

Then they landed on another new world, and the Naaru ship was damaged beyond all possible repair, despite the best efforts the Draenic technicians. In addition to this, the Naaru who powered the ship, K'ure, was slowly dying from the amount of energy used in thousands of years of protecting the Draenei. Her people named this new world Draenor, and shared it peacefully with the spiritual Orcs for about two hundred years before the Burning Legion found them once again.

During the war against the corrupted Orcs, Saanto's father, a Vindicator of the Light, was killed in the Battle of Karabor, where the sacred temple was completely destroyed. Saanto and her mother, along with many other Draenei refugees, fled to the mushroom swamp of Zangarmarsh to hide from the genocide.

Years later, a new enemy known as the Sin'dorei, or Blood Elves, came through the Dark Portal from the world of Azeroth and started to attack the Draenei. Saanto's mother was killed by one of their warlocks during this war, and she fled with many of the survivors to the Naaru stronghold known as Tempest Keep.

The Blood Elves managed to take most of Tempest Keep, but the remaining Draenei there had managed to take one section of the keep known as the Exodar away from Draenor. Soon after they fled, the Exodar crashed on Azeroth, and apart from a sprained ankle, a few bruises, and a headache, Saanto was unharmed.

Saanto joined a mage academy on Azeroth led by an Archmage of the Kirin Tor. The Gnomish headmaster soon recognized that Saanto's many thousands of years of training and experience made her an excellent mage, so he put her through standard and nonstandard tests of magical ability in order to help the Draenei achieve the same rank that he had. Saanto succeeded in becoming an Archmage of the Kirin Tor.