Post by Felix Falora on Dec 27, 2010 15:17:08 GMT -5
Full Name: Helena Ashenworth
Nicknames: The Crimson Knight
Age: 20
Height: 5'0 (Human), 5'9 (Worgen)
Weight: Skinny for her race either way.
Gender: Female
Race: Worgen, a race similar to Werewolf except freedom to change forms. Henceforth, with freedom, I refuse to call it a traditional Werewolf, but thankfully Blizzard gave the alternate name, Worgen.
Alliance: Neutral Good
Home: Born in Gilneas, her city was taken by the Forsaken, so the Worgen now reside in Darnassus. This is canonic for WoW and is not an attempt to make yet another "human-like-a-Night-Elf" character similar to Emeraldi.
Franchise: World of Warcraft
Physical Description: Helena has two forms to switch from. The first form she prefers to stay in is her human form. In this form, she has long, neatly combed black hair that reaches down to her upper back. Her eyes are onyx colored, same as her hair, and she has dark colored skin. She keeps herself in peak physical condition; her body has muscle, mainly seen in her arms and legs, but it can also be detected in her chest. She trains hard in order to once again fight in Human form, but unfortunately for her, she always seems to revert in combat. Her Worgen form is more wild looking, as you would expect. She has a sort of mane that runs down her back, but its shaggy and messy. Her eyes, emerald in color, seem to glow with whatever emotions she feels. Her fur is a dark color, but instead of being black, it almost looks blue-tinted, though more of a really fine cobolt. Underneath clothing is a more animalistic body to the point where Worgen women sometimes joke about their six breasts. (Yes, this is a canon WoW joke.) Of course, in Worgen form, she has more muscles, more strength, and she utilizes it in combat. As for her clothing in either form, she is known as the Crimson Knight because she dons crimson-dyed plate armor in battle. When in public, however, she tends to wear a simple Tuxedo attire to match the top hat she wears.
Weapons: As a Worgen, you figure Helena needs no weapon. She has claws that can rip flesh easily and fangs that, upon contact, turns other Humans into Worgen. Now to explain the lack of non-human Worgen as well as why Worgen cannot be Paladins (Humans cannot be Shaman, so we won't discuss them), one could speculate that the other races are incompatable to the magic that spreads on into the body of the bitten, for in WoW, Worgen were created by means of a magical experiment the Night Elves incorperated onto Humans after they themselves became Worgen. As for the lack of Worgen Paladins, the Light protects those overtly faithful to it (you figure Paladins are zealots and the like) from the curse. Priests can waver in their faith (ask Emeraldi, who's a major in the Shadow Spec), so they can still become Worgen, but Paladins are absolute devouts to the Light (or in Jacqueli's case when I make her... God), and it protects them. Either way, back on topic, you figure no Worgen truely NEEDS weapons, but Helena, in a desperate cling to her humanity, uses weapons nonetheless. As a Warrior, she can utilize nearly any weapon she wants and how. In her main hand, she carries a huge blade with spikes where a blade and dull edge should be, giving you the idea that such a weapon is used for shaving over slicing. The other is a very ornately decorated and almost mystical looking claymore that is more traditional with the blade's appearence and is more for slicing. Both weapons are normally meant for two hands, but a well trained Warrior can wield a two-handed weapon with one hand, thus making him or her more deadly.
Abilities/Powers: As a Worgen, Helena has free control over her transformations. In her Worgen form, she's able to run extremely fast, which even allows her to run on all fours in a manner that makes riding mounts, horsen and the likes, useless for her. She still needs flying mounts though. As a Warrior, you think her abilities wouldn't need much explaining, but as always, WoW has a way of making it more complicated then just "she-slash-things-and-they-be-dead." A Warrior trains in three arts; Arms, Fury, and Protection. Fury and Protection are two opposites while Arms is somewhere in the middle. A Warrior who trains in the arts of Fury moves to do heavy damage and rip their enemies limb from limb quickly, giving into their carnal, berserker rage and carrying a weapon in each hand. A Warrior who trains in the arts of Protection, however, serves as a Defender to his/her allies. Using shields to protect themself and taunting their enemies, they fight not to kill their enemies, but to keep their enemies attacking them. Then there is the Warrior who trains in Arms, a balanced fighter who delivers heavy blows, but also knows how to remain on the defensive with their two-handed weapons. Helena used to be a Warrior training in the Protection spec, but the unbridled rage of the Worgen made it easy for her to become an expert in the Fury Arts. It is, in fact, those warriors who master the Fury arts that can carry a two-handed weapon in one hand each.
Skills: Many adventurers, such as Helena, learn cooking, fishing, first-aid, and archaeology. As for her major professions, she has taken up Skinning and Leatherworking for the sake of her sister and their friend. Skinning gives Helena the know-how on how to cut hides from animals. Leatherworking gives her the expertise to then turn those hides into leather she can use to make leather armor and sometimes even mail armor. (Yes, this is canon)
Personality: Helena has always been a strong, steadfast, courageous young woman who would dash into battle to protect those she cared about without regards to her own life. However, this sort of personality clashes with the feral, carnel, animalistic rage of the beast she's becoming. With the aid of medicine and magic from the Night Elves, the rage of the beast has been quelled, but it shows easily when she becomes tempermental. When angered, she flies into an unearthly fury the likes of which has hardly ever been seen. This rage is her undoing and she fears this rage like a child would fear the dark. She desperately wishes to cling to her humanity and, as a result, stays in human form as often as possible. Sh also eats human foods, uses human weapons (clothing is always mandatory), and speaks in human tongues always, never using the feral tongues that Worgen know.
History: Gilneas was once a steadfast ally to the Alliance, but as the problems of the world made its king fear for his people's safety, he constructed the Graymane Wall, thus shielding Gilneas away from all other forms of contact he thought possible. It is in this walled off city that Helena grew. The humans of Gilneas kept to the old ways. Priests ofted to believe in God, but Pagan beliefs still existed in the form of Druids that could actually be found. Helena came from a Pagan family, but did not share their beliefs. She still loved them and respected them, but when it came down to what she wanted to be, she did not become a Druid like her parents and her sister, Annalissa. She instead trained her body so that she could fight as a Warrior of Gilneas. And her time came when unknown invaders struck hard before the coming of Deathwing.
Worgen, once brainwashed by the Archmage Arugal, had made their way from Silverpine Forest outside the Graymane Wall. They had scaled the wall, surmounting it, and gotten into the city. People that weren't slaughtered were infected by the curse, bitten by the Worgen. Helena had been one of the ones to get bitten while fighting Worgen alongside her king Graymane and the once considered traitor Darius Crowley. She had not considered it anything worrisome then, but in Light's Dawn Chapel, she had suffered its effects while holding off the last of the Worgen. She had merely thought when they stopped advancing that they felt they had lost. Then she changed into the beast and went onto a killing rampage, forced to watch, trapped in her own body, as she slaughtered her companions and ran the wilds unchecked until hunters found her.
Graymane's alchemist, Krennan Aranas, was able to make a sort of serum that helped those affected by the Worgen's curse fight back against it. Some Worgen were unable to feel it, still dominated by feral nature, and were put down, courtesy of Lord Godfrey, advisor to King Graymane who held an unearthly hatred to the Worgen for whatever reason. Helena was one of the survivors who was able to regain her humanity and, for this, was allowed to live. But troubles found them fast. With the Cataclysm and the fall of the Graymane Wall, the Forsaken under leadership of their banshee queen, Sylvanas Windrunner, as well as the new Horde warchief, Garrosh Hellscream, poured in to conquer Gilneas and take it as their own. But though Garrosh intended to do the conquest the old fashioned way, Sylvanas had her own plan; a plague that Garrosh had forbidden, yet she cared not. During the battle for Gilneas, she murdered the king's son, Liam, and tempted Helena's wrath, she who, along with her sister, held a crush for dear Liam. Then she unleashed the plague. Quite a few survivors who had been unable to evacuate in time were caught in it. Not even their bones had been able to remain.
But though it seemed all hope lost for the people of Gilneas, help has arrived in the form of Darnassus Sentinels, Night Elves who came to help those that been cursed by their past mistakes. For like many of the troubles of the world, the Worgen curse was a result of Night Elf idiocy. Night Elf Druids had tried to utlize a more carnal form and thus tried to turn into wolves. However, the violent nature of the wolf had caught them and left them unable to finish the shifting, thus they became humanoid wolf-beasts, the original Worgen. The Druids of the Cenarion Circle, instead of destroying these beasts, locked them into eternal sleep dictated by a magical artifact, the Scythe of Elune. Then Archmage Arugal tampered with it, unleashing the Worgen onto the Scourge in the Eastern Kingdoms, but they turned on him, thus causing the curse to spread as far as it did, letting it reach Gilneas.
Tyrande Whisperwind, High Priestess of Elune and religious leader of the Night Elves, felt responsible for the humans of Gilneas suffering. So she sent her people to aid them and their escape from the Forsaken. They took refuge in Darnassus, in a new tree now known as the Howling Oak, and Tyrande helped convince King Varian Wyrnn of Stormwind that the Worgen would be invaluable aid to the Alliance. Her Druids helped soothe the curse and gave the Gilneans their ability to switch between human and Worgen form. With Varian's consent, the people of Gilneas were openly a part of the Alliance again. Which of course meant that its warriors were to serve. Helena, having suffered through all of these battles, having seen her people suffer at the hands of the Horde, and feeling indebted to the Alliance for taking her people back in despite how they had treated old King Terenas of Lordaeron before walling themselves away, was but one of Gilneas' many new Worgen warriors to eagerly help the Alliance in its new fronts, to retake the whole of Azeroth in its now broken state.
Other: Many events were documented wrong; I'll probably revamp them later, but the history is the general of what happened, even if documented chrnologically incorrect.
Picture: N/A
Nicknames: The Crimson Knight
Age: 20
Height: 5'0 (Human), 5'9 (Worgen)
Weight: Skinny for her race either way.
Gender: Female
Race: Worgen, a race similar to Werewolf except freedom to change forms. Henceforth, with freedom, I refuse to call it a traditional Werewolf, but thankfully Blizzard gave the alternate name, Worgen.
Alliance: Neutral Good
Home: Born in Gilneas, her city was taken by the Forsaken, so the Worgen now reside in Darnassus. This is canonic for WoW and is not an attempt to make yet another "human-like-a-Night-Elf" character similar to Emeraldi.
Franchise: World of Warcraft
Physical Description: Helena has two forms to switch from. The first form she prefers to stay in is her human form. In this form, she has long, neatly combed black hair that reaches down to her upper back. Her eyes are onyx colored, same as her hair, and she has dark colored skin. She keeps herself in peak physical condition; her body has muscle, mainly seen in her arms and legs, but it can also be detected in her chest. She trains hard in order to once again fight in Human form, but unfortunately for her, she always seems to revert in combat. Her Worgen form is more wild looking, as you would expect. She has a sort of mane that runs down her back, but its shaggy and messy. Her eyes, emerald in color, seem to glow with whatever emotions she feels. Her fur is a dark color, but instead of being black, it almost looks blue-tinted, though more of a really fine cobolt. Underneath clothing is a more animalistic body to the point where Worgen women sometimes joke about their six breasts. (Yes, this is a canon WoW joke.) Of course, in Worgen form, she has more muscles, more strength, and she utilizes it in combat. As for her clothing in either form, she is known as the Crimson Knight because she dons crimson-dyed plate armor in battle. When in public, however, she tends to wear a simple Tuxedo attire to match the top hat she wears.
Weapons: As a Worgen, you figure Helena needs no weapon. She has claws that can rip flesh easily and fangs that, upon contact, turns other Humans into Worgen. Now to explain the lack of non-human Worgen as well as why Worgen cannot be Paladins (Humans cannot be Shaman, so we won't discuss them), one could speculate that the other races are incompatable to the magic that spreads on into the body of the bitten, for in WoW, Worgen were created by means of a magical experiment the Night Elves incorperated onto Humans after they themselves became Worgen. As for the lack of Worgen Paladins, the Light protects those overtly faithful to it (you figure Paladins are zealots and the like) from the curse. Priests can waver in their faith (ask Emeraldi, who's a major in the Shadow Spec), so they can still become Worgen, but Paladins are absolute devouts to the Light (or in Jacqueli's case when I make her... God), and it protects them. Either way, back on topic, you figure no Worgen truely NEEDS weapons, but Helena, in a desperate cling to her humanity, uses weapons nonetheless. As a Warrior, she can utilize nearly any weapon she wants and how. In her main hand, she carries a huge blade with spikes where a blade and dull edge should be, giving you the idea that such a weapon is used for shaving over slicing. The other is a very ornately decorated and almost mystical looking claymore that is more traditional with the blade's appearence and is more for slicing. Both weapons are normally meant for two hands, but a well trained Warrior can wield a two-handed weapon with one hand, thus making him or her more deadly.
Abilities/Powers: As a Worgen, Helena has free control over her transformations. In her Worgen form, she's able to run extremely fast, which even allows her to run on all fours in a manner that makes riding mounts, horsen and the likes, useless for her. She still needs flying mounts though. As a Warrior, you think her abilities wouldn't need much explaining, but as always, WoW has a way of making it more complicated then just "she-slash-things-and-they-be-dead." A Warrior trains in three arts; Arms, Fury, and Protection. Fury and Protection are two opposites while Arms is somewhere in the middle. A Warrior who trains in the arts of Fury moves to do heavy damage and rip their enemies limb from limb quickly, giving into their carnal, berserker rage and carrying a weapon in each hand. A Warrior who trains in the arts of Protection, however, serves as a Defender to his/her allies. Using shields to protect themself and taunting their enemies, they fight not to kill their enemies, but to keep their enemies attacking them. Then there is the Warrior who trains in Arms, a balanced fighter who delivers heavy blows, but also knows how to remain on the defensive with their two-handed weapons. Helena used to be a Warrior training in the Protection spec, but the unbridled rage of the Worgen made it easy for her to become an expert in the Fury Arts. It is, in fact, those warriors who master the Fury arts that can carry a two-handed weapon in one hand each.
Skills: Many adventurers, such as Helena, learn cooking, fishing, first-aid, and archaeology. As for her major professions, she has taken up Skinning and Leatherworking for the sake of her sister and their friend. Skinning gives Helena the know-how on how to cut hides from animals. Leatherworking gives her the expertise to then turn those hides into leather she can use to make leather armor and sometimes even mail armor. (Yes, this is canon)
Personality: Helena has always been a strong, steadfast, courageous young woman who would dash into battle to protect those she cared about without regards to her own life. However, this sort of personality clashes with the feral, carnel, animalistic rage of the beast she's becoming. With the aid of medicine and magic from the Night Elves, the rage of the beast has been quelled, but it shows easily when she becomes tempermental. When angered, she flies into an unearthly fury the likes of which has hardly ever been seen. This rage is her undoing and she fears this rage like a child would fear the dark. She desperately wishes to cling to her humanity and, as a result, stays in human form as often as possible. Sh also eats human foods, uses human weapons (clothing is always mandatory), and speaks in human tongues always, never using the feral tongues that Worgen know.
History: Gilneas was once a steadfast ally to the Alliance, but as the problems of the world made its king fear for his people's safety, he constructed the Graymane Wall, thus shielding Gilneas away from all other forms of contact he thought possible. It is in this walled off city that Helena grew. The humans of Gilneas kept to the old ways. Priests ofted to believe in God, but Pagan beliefs still existed in the form of Druids that could actually be found. Helena came from a Pagan family, but did not share their beliefs. She still loved them and respected them, but when it came down to what she wanted to be, she did not become a Druid like her parents and her sister, Annalissa. She instead trained her body so that she could fight as a Warrior of Gilneas. And her time came when unknown invaders struck hard before the coming of Deathwing.
Worgen, once brainwashed by the Archmage Arugal, had made their way from Silverpine Forest outside the Graymane Wall. They had scaled the wall, surmounting it, and gotten into the city. People that weren't slaughtered were infected by the curse, bitten by the Worgen. Helena had been one of the ones to get bitten while fighting Worgen alongside her king Graymane and the once considered traitor Darius Crowley. She had not considered it anything worrisome then, but in Light's Dawn Chapel, she had suffered its effects while holding off the last of the Worgen. She had merely thought when they stopped advancing that they felt they had lost. Then she changed into the beast and went onto a killing rampage, forced to watch, trapped in her own body, as she slaughtered her companions and ran the wilds unchecked until hunters found her.
Graymane's alchemist, Krennan Aranas, was able to make a sort of serum that helped those affected by the Worgen's curse fight back against it. Some Worgen were unable to feel it, still dominated by feral nature, and were put down, courtesy of Lord Godfrey, advisor to King Graymane who held an unearthly hatred to the Worgen for whatever reason. Helena was one of the survivors who was able to regain her humanity and, for this, was allowed to live. But troubles found them fast. With the Cataclysm and the fall of the Graymane Wall, the Forsaken under leadership of their banshee queen, Sylvanas Windrunner, as well as the new Horde warchief, Garrosh Hellscream, poured in to conquer Gilneas and take it as their own. But though Garrosh intended to do the conquest the old fashioned way, Sylvanas had her own plan; a plague that Garrosh had forbidden, yet she cared not. During the battle for Gilneas, she murdered the king's son, Liam, and tempted Helena's wrath, she who, along with her sister, held a crush for dear Liam. Then she unleashed the plague. Quite a few survivors who had been unable to evacuate in time were caught in it. Not even their bones had been able to remain.
But though it seemed all hope lost for the people of Gilneas, help has arrived in the form of Darnassus Sentinels, Night Elves who came to help those that been cursed by their past mistakes. For like many of the troubles of the world, the Worgen curse was a result of Night Elf idiocy. Night Elf Druids had tried to utlize a more carnal form and thus tried to turn into wolves. However, the violent nature of the wolf had caught them and left them unable to finish the shifting, thus they became humanoid wolf-beasts, the original Worgen. The Druids of the Cenarion Circle, instead of destroying these beasts, locked them into eternal sleep dictated by a magical artifact, the Scythe of Elune. Then Archmage Arugal tampered with it, unleashing the Worgen onto the Scourge in the Eastern Kingdoms, but they turned on him, thus causing the curse to spread as far as it did, letting it reach Gilneas.
Tyrande Whisperwind, High Priestess of Elune and religious leader of the Night Elves, felt responsible for the humans of Gilneas suffering. So she sent her people to aid them and their escape from the Forsaken. They took refuge in Darnassus, in a new tree now known as the Howling Oak, and Tyrande helped convince King Varian Wyrnn of Stormwind that the Worgen would be invaluable aid to the Alliance. Her Druids helped soothe the curse and gave the Gilneans their ability to switch between human and Worgen form. With Varian's consent, the people of Gilneas were openly a part of the Alliance again. Which of course meant that its warriors were to serve. Helena, having suffered through all of these battles, having seen her people suffer at the hands of the Horde, and feeling indebted to the Alliance for taking her people back in despite how they had treated old King Terenas of Lordaeron before walling themselves away, was but one of Gilneas' many new Worgen warriors to eagerly help the Alliance in its new fronts, to retake the whole of Azeroth in its now broken state.
Other: Many events were documented wrong; I'll probably revamp them later, but the history is the general of what happened, even if documented chrnologically incorrect.
Picture: N/A
