User:Zaraek Starstriker/Paladins of the Light

The Paladins of the Light were a very small, almost unknown group of Quel'dorei paladins who practiced intensive techniques of meditation to develop their own connection to the Light. Because of this, they were strict ascetics, attuned to the rewards of spiritual rather than physical pleasure and were shunned and ridiculed by most of the hedonistic high elves. Their rankings were not military, but based on the spectrum of Light that the most advanced of them could perceive within the bodies of living creatures. Through the pure power of the Light, they had the foresight to go against Arthas in a secret preemptive surgical strike led by Anaronae'kan Zaraek Starstriker, in the miniscule window of time before Arthas brought his forces to bear against the Heart of their homeland. They were unsuccessful, and most of them were killed and either destroyed or converted to the first Death Knights. There are rumors that a few still live and may roam Azeroth, scattered to the winds and consumed by guilt and shame, knowing that had they been successful the entire Scourge war could have been prevented and bearing the burden of the near annihilation of the Quel'dorei.