User:Vorbis/Leon Everdawn

King Leon Everdawn is the founder and leader of the wood elves, and leads them from the fortress of Falu'Danil Hold in the Ravenwind Mountains of south-western Quel'Thalas. Along with his friend and ally, the red dragon Horakastrasz, he watches over the natural environment of the mountain range with the caring hand of a Druid, and the sharp and experienced mind of a former captain of the high elven Ranger Corps of Silvermoon City.

Biography
Before the Third War, Leon Everdawn served under Ranger-General Sylvanas Windrunner as a captain of the Ranger Corps of Silvermoon. Though subordinate to Sylvanus' second-in-command, Lor'themar Theron, the two had little contact during their service in the military previous to the invasion of the Scourge. As one of the few survivors of the short but devastating conflict, Leon was amongst the high elves who remained in Quel'Thalas after the fall of Silvermoon, the destruction of the Sunwell and the deaths of the king and the nation's entire ruling body. Alongside his friend and fellow officer Halduron Brightwing and other survivors, he aided in the task of organising the confused rabble of elves that were still alive, and beginning the more gruesome and mournful task of finding and burying those dead who remained inanimate.

Shortly after Lor'themar Theron assumed temporary command of the Ranger Corps (Sylvanus having died in the seige), Prince Kael'thas returned from Dalaran to proclaim the rebirth of the former high elves as the blood elves - or "Sin'dorei". As a beacon of a new age, the prince rallied his people around him; taking the most loyal and eager of his remaining soldiers to join the resistance force against the Scourge in Lordaeron, lead by the human Lord Garithos. Lor'themar Theron was appointed "Regent of Silvermoon" in the stead of the prince, and commanded to "safeguard the land and seek a cure for the people" (whose magical needs were no longer sated). The Regent immediately appointed Halduron Brightwing to be his successor as Ranger-General; and Everdawn as Commander of the Silvermoon City Guard, who were both only too eager to begin the rebuilding of the shattered nation.

Approximately around this time, the traitor Dar'khan Drathir pursued Anveena (the current avatar of the Sunwell - though in human form, and with no knowlege of her true purpose) into Quel'Thalas. Everdawn, though one of Silvermoon's premier officers, was not privy to the events that took place regarding Anveena and her defeat of Dar'khan's Scourge forces. He was, however, refused access to the Sunwell Grove along with all other blood elves who were not privy to Anveena's secret and her decision to help regenerate the Sunwell upon realising her power. This lead to conflict with Brightwing and Theron, who were only to his knowledge interfering with his task of safeguarding the city, and this - along with the laziness and arrogance already presenting itself amongst the people, born from the effects upon an elf of survivor syndrome - began his path of resentment towards his superiors which would later turn to disillusionment... and betrayal.