Sayuria

Information

Player: Hexproof

Character Full Name: Sayuria Belrose

Character In-Game Name: Sayuria

Nickname(s): None

Association(s): The Argent Crusade, [Formerly] The Scarlet Crusade, The Church of the Holy Light

Race: Human

Class: Priest

Skills and Abilities: Holy Defense: Sayuria's greatest strength isn't in her offensive powers, but in her defensive ones. She's honed her Light-wielding skills to become adept at creating barriers of Holy energy as shields and simple defensive structures. The largest of which she can maintain at any given time covers an internal area of roughly ten by ten square feet, divided evenly when she attempts to create more than one barrier. Adept Healing: Sayuria is a skillfully trained healer, having excessive medical experience only recently augmented with the massive stores of information she's gained from the more ancient species she's come in contact with.

Age: 33

Sex: Female

Hair: Platinum Blonde

Eyes: Blue

Weight: 136 lbs

Height: 5’8”

Appearance

Usual Garments/Armor: Sayuria likes to dress in whites, usually favoring robes and the like over more restrictive or otherwise uncomfortable garments. She likes things that flow, and prefers skirts to trousers on the rare occasions in which she isn't wearing robes.

Other: Sayuria has sworn a vow of nonviolence, and as such she cannot take any action which could be perceived by herself as violent or offensive (physically) unless there is no other recourse. As such, she doesn't actually know and is ultimately incapable of using any sort of offensive divine magic, be it power words, smiting or anything of the like.

Personality

Sayuria is a strongly pacifistic woman, intent on preventing fighting wherever she can. She earnestly desires to bring happiness and comfort to everyone she meets, and goes out of her way to do so if it means that any amount of joy has been given to said acquaintance. She throws herself into this work, making it her life's mission and ultimately seeking to continue it until she dies, whether it be in the name of converting others to her personal belief in the Light, or simply making their lives a bit easier or happier.

She doesn't judge based on race or creed, willing to heal and aid the Alliance or Horde as she sees fit to the situation, hoping that perhaps by aiding their personal troubles and sorrow, she might help nudge the world a little closer towards peace.

History

Sayuria's story begins on a note that I must stress is not a sad one. While she did not, in fact, ever know her parents, she had a very happy childhood, comfortably living and growing in a small village community in Lordaeron. She'd been left on the village church's steps as an infant, with merely a letter stating her name and nothing more, but she always assumed it was for the best, as she was happy where she was.

She grew up tending to that church as the priest's daughter, taught early on in the ways of the Light and about the philosophies attached, and they grew on her. She decided very early on that her life's mission would be to protect and help in the name of the Light, and that was how she lived. It wasn't glamorous or anything of the like, but it was what it was. She was more than content to stay in that little, vaguely secluded village forever, but fate intervened as it is wont to do.

There had been rumors of war, of course. Of both wars, really. They were out of the way enough that mentions of Orcs and Trolls and monstrosities and anything of the like were little more than legends or occasional tales from travelers. The Plague of Undeath was different, though. It began with a ragged man stumbling into her (by this time, Sayuria was training her own apprentice to tend to their little village's little church, the woman being twenty-four and her adoptive father having since passed) sermon, speaking of corpses rising from the ground and of cultists and all manner of nonsense.

Still, she tended to his illness, but it was already too late, really. The sickness set in, and it was only a matter of days before most of the town had fallen, the land around them sickening and becoming corrupt and illness-ridden. There was nothing she could do, either, and so rallying whoever was left, Sayuria attempted to flee.

Luck, fate, or any other argument one could apply eventually dropped them upon a group calling themselves the Scarlet Crusade and after a period of terseness, were welcomed when Sayuria displayed her abilities with the Light, showing that at least she was not corrupted.

She joined their ranks, and until some time later, believed she was doing the right thing. She believed that by punishing and hunting down the mindless risen corpses, she was helping the world, helping bring peace and helping perhaps one day pushing things back to how they would be. She thought she was doing the right thing, and couldn't have been more wrong.

It was several years after that that Sayuria realized what a grave mistake she'd made. She had been doing well, even rising through the ranks to become an Inquisitor and leading several people of her own. Hers was a brand of “tough love”, but it was shattered by a chance encounter with an Undead who was willing and able to speak. She realized, then, what horrors she'd been committing, and she fled.

She fled and fled and ran and continued to flee until her path led her into Alliance territory once more, giving her a real look at the way things were for the first time, and eventually leading her to join with the Argent Crusade just as they began their siege of Northrend. There she worked as a healer, and honed her skills in an attempt to make up for more than half a decade of wrongdoing. She took a vow of nonviolence as well, and to this day attempts to keep it.

Sayuria doesn't know what the future holds, but she has become resolute that she wishes to make it brighter.