User:Selenium/Gahbal

Before Gahbal awaked from the crypt to his new unlife, he was a soldier of Lordaeron named Nolrin Gahbal.

Nolrin's parents lived a modest life as merchants in a small general store in Stratholme. Nolrin’s childhood was a good one, if uneventful. After reaching maturity, he volunteered for the armies of Lordaeron, seeking adventures he knew he'd never find in his parents' small shop.

For a few happy years, Nolrin traveled throughout the Kingdom of Lordaeron on unremarkable patrols. It was a time of peace of prosperity for the human lands, and the peoples from Lordaeron to Stratholme to Stormwind thrived. Then the Scourge came, and the young Prince Arthas did the unthinkable.

In the months that followed Arthas’ unspeakable betrayal, the armies and strongholds of Lordaeron were methodically destroyed, until the king himself was slaughtered by his own traitorous son.

Nolrin survived these battles, but it was no mercy. After returning home to Stratholme after the near-total destruction of the Kingdom and her armies, Nolrin found only death and pain. He learned of Arthas’ slaughtering of his friends and kin, and rage filled his heart. Vowing revenge on the Scourge, and Arthas, he departed the ruins of his home and traveled to the ruins of Lordaeron where the Scourge had taken hold.

It did not take long for the Scourge to take him, there. For as valiantly as he stood on the fields of Tirisfal that day, he could not hold back the infectious plague which had consumed the land.

Of his time as a mindless servant of the Scourge, Nolrin had no memory. After awaking from the crypt, free of the Lich King by the mercy of the Dark Lady, Nolrin remembered only fragments of his past life—but cared not for any of it. Hatred still burned within his heart. He forsook his given name, answering only to Gahbal. Where were his allies when Lordaeron fell? This question burns in Gahbal. He hates humanity and the other races of the Alliance only slightly less than he hates the Scourge, itself. Now, his only purpose in his unlife is to serve the Forsaken in the same capacity he had in life, as a simple soldier.