Zhanda

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Character Full Name: Zhanda

Character In-Game Name: Zhanda

Association(s): The Kirin Tor, The Exodar, Darnassus

Race: Draenei

Class: Mage

Age: Old enough to have lived about two fifths of her life on Argus

Sex: Female

Hair: Dark blue and messy

Eyes: Glowing blue-white light

Weight: Average

Height: 7'6"

Appearance

Blue robes ranging from very old and ratty to very new and expensive looking.

Personality

Zhanda is above all else, very very logic-driven. She does whatever she thinks must be done for the greater good of the world that she currently inhabits. Because she is always out working for the greater good that she thinks she is working for, she has decided herself not to follow any moral code, and normally takes no mind to the lives of the "obstacles" she may meet. (Obstacles, of course, being people she may feel the need to dispose of.) She is not evil, though. She doesn't harm other people unless she needs to, in fact she actually enjoys making other people happy whenever she can, as any normal draenei would. She just sees all the races of Azeroth as she has any creature she has met in her many world-spanning travels, as inferior. When not doing whatever she can to further her own goals of worldwide peace and order, she likes to spend her time on what she sees to be very trivial things, like writing and reading and walking alone. She also spends a good deal of her time educating mages of Azeroth in the "proper" use of the arcane. She finds flaws in the mystic arts of another quite easily, even if said other does not see them as flaws as well, and always feels the need to take the time to correct these "flaws".

Since Zhanda sees all the denizens of Azeroth as equally inferior and unintelligent, she has no problem associating with what others may call shady or disreputable. She has no problem with any particular race other than orcs, of whom she is very uncomfortable around as any draenei should be.

History

Zhanda was born and raised on Argus, by the sea, and she loved it there. She, like all other draenei, had a natural love of arcane magic, and learned quite a lot of it over the many years she lived on Argus. She had a normal draenei family with a normal family arrangement and two siblings and had what she thought was a pretty nice and normal childhood. When she grew older, she decided she wanted to leave her family and friends by the sea to move to the Eredun capital to learn even more magic, the things that her family on the coast couldn't teach her. She studied many many years in the capital, though never got quite accustomed to city life, so she made visits to the coast quite often. It was during one of these visits that news came to her of an alien landing, a visitation by a powerful being called Sargeras, who had approached the world's three greatest leaders with offerings of power and new knowledge. Zhanda immediately bid her family goodbye and went back off to the capital to see what was going on. She did not trust the offerings of this great visitor, and grew wary of Kil'Jaeden and Archimonde. When the time came to choose, she sided with the leader she had always thought the wisest, Velen. She reluctantly left her home-world with the Velen and the new naaru allies, along with all the other newly christened draenei.

From there on she embarked on many travels to many worlds with the draenei and grew more and more into the logical person she is today. She never really bought into the light and power of light that the naaru taught them, preferring to stick to the magic their own people had developed and that she knew well, though she did accept quite a few pointers for working the old arcane a bit better. She spent nearly all her time on the ship practicing and developing her magic, and when on a planet, spent her time working to build up their society. Every time she met a new race or species in her travels she gave the new race a smaller and smaller initial amount of respect. With each new world she felt it more and more her duty to take charge of the lesser beings and make sure their world does not fall into the same evil that theirs had, and grew more and more annoyed as the Burning Legion attacked each world they landed on. When the draenei finally landed on what they decided to call draenor she, along with the other draenei, decided it best to have a very subtle presence among the inhabitants of the new planet, contrary to her belief that they should be teaching the inhabitants how to take care of their world as well. She lived peacefully and quietly for the years on the planet, and didn't do much other than keep herself alive and help out around the village that she lived in. At one point she even found a husband and after a while, had a child. The family did not last too long, at least by Eredun standards. The reason being, was of course the orcs.

When the orcs began growing violent she felt it her own people's fault for not teaching them otherwise, and when it was found out that it was work of the Burning Legion she felt even more so. She fought against the orcs and demons to the best of her arcane abilities until Velen called for all the strong and healthy draenei to flee to Zangarmarsh and go into hiding. Unfortunately, her husband and child were not among these surviving draenei. She tried her best not to get emotional about the life-altering news of her loved ones deaths, thinking it silly and illogical to mourn things past. Instead she just spent as much time alone with herself as possible, meditating and almost obsessively developing her arcane magics. She even went away from the other draenei for a while to live completely on her own, but returned in time to hear of the blood elves taking of Tempest Keep and to get herself involved with the plan to retake the Exodar. When they set off into the nether and soon after went spiraling out of control to crash land on Azuremist she had decided to herself that this time she would play a major role in educating the people of the new planet. After her remaining people had finally regrouped and recovered from the crash and made first contact with the alliance, she immediately set out to exploring the new world and has been traveling around this world "educating" it's people and doing what she thinks is helping the world ever since.