Therana

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Player: flammos200

Character Full Name: Therana Fallenstar

Character In-Game Name: Therana

Nickname(s): Ther; Therry; Star. Needless to say, she hates all but the latter.

Association(s): The Kaldorei. The stars themselves.

Race: Night Elf.

Class: Warrior.

Age: 11,042

Sex: Female

Hair: Dark blue and very long, it is usually held in a ponytail if expecting combat, or left loose if not, however it may be a combination thereof.

Eyes: Silver.

Weight: 130 Kg.

Height: 2,15 m.

Appearance

Therana enjoys being encased in a layer of metal. Simply put, she prefers heavy armors over lighter ones, as she has sufficient physical strength and training to work in them efficiently.


Other: Therana always carries her tri-bladed glaive, identical in appearance with the usual Sentinel one, on her hip. After over ten thousand years of training with a weapon, one couldn't readily expect her to drop it, could they? That is not to say that she is not proficient in other kinds of weapons, naturally, but she is most comfortable with the glaive.

Personality

Superstitious as she is old, Therana is still, after all this time, the adventurous sort, driven in part by her love of the stars. Believing that everything happens for a reason, and that nearly all things are signs from Elune, she is a person that enjoys a great deal of things in addition to stargazing. For one, she is an adept glassblower and blacksmith alike. She enjoys grinding down lenses and making metallic frames for the telescopes she sometimes uses to spy on the stars above, and naturally, she adores forging her own armor and weaponry, believing that only she can tailor it to her body and make the necessary adjustments as time passes. Therana may be quite protective of the objects of her craft.

Moreover, Therana is obsessed with training and honing her physical form. Her views on the races are very slightly warped by recent occurrences, but she is still pretty racist and very sexist. She dislikes Humans and Gnomes and hates Orcs, Trolls, Forsaken and Sin'dorei with every fiber of her being. She sees Tauren and Dwarves with a certain degree of neutrality whilst Draenei are liked – they are an object of her fascination, as they are quite literally people from the stars – and her own people are obviously valued the most.

Therana's drives, her goals and ideals are as much achieving physical perfection as they are the study of the stars – nowadays close to an obsession. She is not a person one gets close to easily, but that's almost implied by her race and age, however she does enjoy company most of the time.

History

Therana was born one full-moon night on the outskirts of Zin'Azshari, the greatest city in the old Kaldorei empire built on the banks of the Well of Eternity. Her parents were caring and kind, perhaps too much so for the adventurous little girl, whose childhood was spent getting into all sorts of trouble, be it pestering craftsmen with innumerable questions on their more exotic wares, or sneaking off from home only to be found later on her back, grinning up at the starlit sky.

A physical child, Therana's youth was spent in travel and in learning how to properly defend herself from the dangers of the primordial world. It was easy, though, in those days, as the Kaldorei could only be given pause by the Dragons themselves, and had brought most of Azeroth to its knees.

And for a time, everything was good as Therana grew into a fine warrior, but all good things come to an end, and so did Azeroth, it seemed. The Legion poured into the world through the Well of Eternity and she fought long and hard in the War of the Ancients against its hordes of demons, culminating in the Sundering of the planet and the forming of the Maelstrom. Later, she was one of the supporters of the exile of the Highborne across the great sea, seeing it as just punishment to those that quite literally brought about the first truly apocalyptic event that she had lived through.

The Long Vigil that followed was one of training and blacksmithing in nearly equal parts as Therana was inducted into the Sentinels, one of the three major factions of the post-Sundering Kaldorei, the other two being the Cenarion Circle and Sisterhood of Elune.

It was during this time, that a pivotal moment in Therana's life occurred. Quite close to her home, near the Western coast of Ashenvale, she had been stargazing when she saw a bright star seemingly descending from its place among the heavens. Calling it a sign form the Goddess, she followed the falling star to the deep wilds where it landed, and found a crater with a metallic meteorite in its center. Fascinated by the fallen star, an event from which her very name was taken, she took the metallic piece and fashioned it into the typical Sentinel Tri-bladed glaive, with which she served her people thereafter.

With the coming of the Orcs into her ancestral homeland, and the ensuing skirmishes, Therana was called to do battle, and she did her very best, both with the now millennia-old glaive, and more ‘normal' weaponry such as bows and swords. When the Third War culminated in the Battle of Mount Hyjal she eagerly requested to take part in it, and saw it through to the bitter end when the Horn of Cenarius was sounded and she alongside the rest of her people retreated, their immortality sacrificed to ensure Azeroth another chance at a better, brighter future.

In the aftermath of the battle, Therana grew restless. Now conscious of the fact that she would one day wane and die, she left the Sentinel Sisterhood and decided to travel the world, taking her meteor-born glaive with her. After all, she found and forged it, thus it was hers by right. She treaded Azeroth far and wide, the two Continents familiar yet different beneath her armored boots.

Therana happened to be on the Northwestern coast of Kalimdor when she watched the Exodar hurtle down to the Myst Isles, and quickly boarded the next ship headed there, where she met the Draenei and grew fascinated with the alien newcomers, deciding to aid in facilitating their induction into the Alliance in whatever way she could.

Soon, however, the Dark Portal was opened, and she left with some of the Cenarion Expedition's troops, acting more or less as a guard for their operations in Terokkar, Zangarmarsh and ultimately, the Blade's Edge Mountains, where she left the Circle's side to wander the Netherstorm, entranced by its rugged beauty and the closeness to the stars there.

It took a quite a bit of time for her to return to Azeroth, but when she did, she didn't stay on the mainlands for long, departing on an Icebreaker to Northrend, sorely missing the Aurora that she had not seen since before the Sundering. Not bothering with enlisting in the Argent Crusade, she steered well clear of the main conflicts with the Scourge, instead following the Dwarven explorer Brann Bronzebeard into Azjol'Nerub and Ulduar, to the fall of the Old God, Yogg-Saron and the encounter with Algalon the Observer, the latter of the two having a great impact on her worldview, everything she had ever theorized about other worlds and life in the universe seeming to be confirmed.

Upon leaving the frozen wastes of Northrend, she resumed her wandering of Azeroth and Outland, her eyes set still upon the stars above. After all, the calling of the Great Dark Beyond is in the Night Elves' very name – Starborne.