Shil

Information

Player: flammos200

Character Full Name: Shil. (Formerly Liviannah Robertson)

Character In-Game Name: Shil

Nickname(s): None.

Association(s): The Human Alliance of Lordaeron (Former), The Defilers, The Hand of Vengeance.

Race: Forsaken.

Class: Warrior (of the Forgotten Shadow)

Skills and Abilities: Most of the Warrior skills 'n abilities interpreted as being at least aided in some measure by divine magic - faith in the Forgotten Shadow specifically.

She's also a damnably good alchemist, particularly when it comes to engineering virulent plagues, poisons and toxins.

Age: 33

Sex: Female

Hair: Dark red, turned somewhere around purple by decay. It somehow still holds a measure of volume.

Eyes: Yellow ghostlight.

Weight: 68 Kgs.

Height: 1,70 m

Appearance

Shil is the adept of heavy platemail, considering protection to be paramount to success in combat. Vials of diverse substances are sometimes sheltered under the better-armored parts of her.

Other: Shil has a metallic jaw, complete with fangs. It generally aids in cannibalizing corpses, as her original jaw was lost in combat to a particularly brutal blow.

Personality

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Shil is a mere shadow of her former self. A logical being, occasionally prone to over-analyzing things in order to reach an optimal outcome, she finds as much comfort in her undead state as she does unrest. On the one hand, she loves the fact that she can work, worship and fight without tiring, and indeed her long hours in all manner of laboratories and temples rival - and sometimes surpass - those spent in combat, but her fear of ever becoming mindless is extreme - she fears it far more than she fears being slain. It grows obvious how dearly she holds her consciousness and mind and she would stop at nothing to safeguard those.

As far as the races go, Shil is cautious of the living. She can cooperate with them, especially when this means the races of the Horde, but as soon as whatever duties she'd have to perform were done with she would make her exit with haste. She is a very devout individual, showing a measure of respect for the various faiths and practicing her own, recognizing its usefulness. However, Shil's conviction that reason matters slightly more than faith is readily apparent. She is also a rather curious individual, always striving to further her knowledge, be it combat techniques or science.

History

Stratholme-born in a family of alchemists and guards, her childhood was one of happy anarchy. The usual laughter of children playing, splattering each other with mud after rainfall, the occasional fight, coming home with grazed knees much to the worry of her family were commonplace events. She was neither rich nor poor but she was happy. All in all, pretty normal. Growing up she took a dual path. She learned the trade of alchemy from her uncle in her spare time from training as a guard.

The years passed quickly, and Liviannah managed to take up guard duty on the Western outskirts of Stratholme and be a somewhat accomplished alchemist. They pay was good, the food was whatever she fancied at any given moment and all seemed well. Yet it seems that the more comfortable and well we are at any given moment, the more likely it is that something happens - as if to intentionally disturb the carefully-crafted balance we have achieved.

It was so in Liviannah's case. The plague of Undeath spread across Lordaeron, and it hit Stratholme hard. Horror gripped the young guard as she was forced to strike down friends and even family - shells drained of life, carrying the faces of the people she knew and loved. She was lucky to have her equipment on hand at the time; a simple suit of scalemail coupled with a sword and shield. She would make use of the knowledge she had gained as an alchemist to keep herself alive during the coming weeks.

She fled. She ran westward, grouping with a band of refugees, her single goal being survival, and the occasional retribution for the Scourge's taking of all she knew and held dear. It felt as though the world had ended. And her world truly did. Food was running out, she was hungry and weak. But the worst of it all was that the realm seemed plunged into everlasting darkness.

Then, when all felt lost she succumbed to the plague of Undeath, and Liviannah Robertson faded into nothing more than a mere memory. Now an agent of the Scourge with little regard for her former companions, the still-armed undead girl slaughtered them. The sound of metal biting into her enemies would become her new identity; Shil. Her masters in the Scourge would let her keep the name, as it was short and eased commanding her considerably. And thus time under the Scourge passed...

After the Lich King's mental control over the Scourge of Lordaeron waned, Shil found herself with her will and memories restored, conscious once more, her past in the Undead Scourge feeling like some faded dream. She quickly grouped with the rest of the newly freed undead and together, they dubbed themselves Forsaken, under the Banshee Queen.

Shil's service to the Forsaken came in three ways. In her incipient days, she joined the Defilers and fought long and hard for over a year against the Humans still surviving to the South of Tirisfal. During this time, she also perfected her skill in alchemy, delving also into the Forgotten Shadow and becoming a warrior practically empowered by the Echo of Life. Her endeavors into further scientific pursuits were also met with rapturous hunger for knowledge and progress. Tinted by her disregard for life, these projects of hers carried a distinctly dark nature to them - poisons, vile concoctions and the like, all to be spread for the glory of the Forsaken and the detriment of their living enemies. Her worship took a similarly gruesome path.

Shil would stay locked between battle, science and faith for a fairly long time, but as the Forsaken sent troops to Northrend, she joined them, becoming one of the Hand of Vengeance, aimed at striking back against the Lich King no matter the means or cost. It was during this time that she worked mostly on the New Plague, only stopping after the Battle of the Wrathgate and the retaking of the Undercity.

Refocusing her efforts towards the war, she became a part of the crew of Orgrim's Hammer, a gunship of the Horde operating in Northrend. It was there that she put her technical and scientific skills to good use, and ended up staying until the very end of the War against the Lich King. Finding herself without more enemies to fight, nowadays Shil whittles away her time by wandering and furthering her none-too-kind goals through research and devotion alike.