User:Byaggha/Gloriarn Mithrilweave

Author's Note: Hello there! Despite the fact that this character is a complete sociopath, rest assured that I am not. I'm actually quite friendly and open to RP, so feel free to yell at me if you see me in public and want to start something going, RP-wise!

General Information
Name: Gloriarn Mithrilweave

Race: Dwarf, Dark Iron clan

Home Server: Steamwheedle Cartel US

Age: Appears to be in her mid to late 20s, if estimated by looks and by a human, though she is probably closer to her 50s.

Class: Rogue

Level: 80

Talents: 18/51/2 (Combat-heavy raiding and PVE build) and 11/6/54 (Shadowstep subtlety for PVP).

Professions: Mining (450) and Goblin Engineering (450). Also an accomplished chef ( Cooking 450), fisherman ( Fishing 450), and field medic ( First Aid 450).

Guild: Alkahest.

Physical Description: Slightly shorter and leaner than an average Ironforge woman, Gloriarn makes up for the lack of size with sheer smirking, witty attitude. Her velvet-smooth tenor voice has a mocking tone to it more often than not, as if the rest of the world is the butt of her joke.

Her skin has a strange dark color to it, as if it were dusted with coal, and her eyes, when visible, are red. She wears her onyx hair in tight twin braids, held fast by plain brushed mithril clips. She has three small, undecorated silver hoop earrings in her right ear and one in her left. She otherwise has no jewelry or ornamentation of note.

Her belt has tools - including lockpicks - fastened securely to it, and she smells of machine oil and blasting powder.

Personality Description: Bold, brash and in-your-face, she's very self-assured and enjoys a good joke. Sarcasm is the order of the day. Personal goals include the following list - Gold. Her own comfort. Gold. Kicking the emperor of the Dark Irons around. Gold.

A Short History
Born and raised in Shadowforge City, Glori was interested in explosives and engineering feats from a young age. She is self-taught in the basics, and when her natural prowess for machines was discovered, she was immediately conscripted into the Dark Iron nation's armies.

After several years of stealth and explosives technician training, she was released into a unit of sappers which attacked various weak points within Ironforge lands. She spent some time at the battle for Thandol Span before being reassigned for her good work - she was made head of her own unit, which was then sent on various raids (each progressively more dangerous than the last) until she was finally ordered to storm Wildhammer Keep with her entire unit carrying nothing but a barrel of seaforium each.

Deciding enough was enough and her king was a moron, she defected from the city and made a winding run to Ironforge, hoping for some modicum of asylum. Instead, she was greeted at gunpoint and thrown in a cell, to be branded as a criminal. She was left to rot in the cell until she was 'rescued' by Griffonclaw fitzSilver ( User:Griffonclaw ), who pressed her into service for the Alliance.

Figuring such service is the only way she'll stay both protected, well paid and free, she continues work for the Alliance to this day. She may wear their tabards, but that doesn't make her a hardcore Alliance member - she doesn't care about squabbles with the Horde unless the pay is enough to make her care.

She is well aware her presence in the Alliance is only tolerated as long as she's active and working towards what goals they want her to work towards, the gleeful sociopath often turns her attention to making life for their selected targets miserable or much shorter than it would have otherwise been. She has recently been put to use as a bounty hunter for 7, who have let her know in no uncertain terms that if she screws up, they will not send a rescue.

(( For more information on Glori's history and current life, please visit her subforum at The SWCRP Archives, or visit my archive of WoW stories at Deviantart. ))

Current Activity
Gloriarn is usually either hanging around in Stormwind's Old Town, particularly near her house next to The Five Deadly Venoms. If she isn't there, she's in Alkahest's complex over Nagrand, or hanging about the Argent Tournament Grounds and antagonizing the Ironforge delegates by having her squire, Shortround, fly their banner as she buzzes about on her motorcycle and causes trouble.

Notable Names
Coming soon!

Other Things

 * There is a good chance Gloriarn is a 'stage name' of sorts; it's a masculine dwarven name and not something dwarven parents would normally give female child. She has neither confirmed nor denied this rumor.


 * Glori's last name is actually descended from her mother's side rather than her father's. Her mother's family was more prominent inside Shadowforge City, so on what amounts to marriage for a Dark Iron, he took her name rather than vice versa. Glori thinks this is hillarious and makes him look like a complete failure of a man.


 * Her Mekgineer's Chopper is her pride and joy - she hand-built it with from little more than hard won plans and a lot of mined ore, spending days tooling every part and stretching every belt by herself. As such, anyone threatning the bike will be the recipient of a free trip to a Spirit Healer.


 * Gloriarn is a sociopath, but she tends to hide it fairly well. She is by no means someone who will show you their evil deeds outright, but make no mistake, she is usually plotting more than one thing for her own amusement, and she has no qualms about stepping over your dead body to accomplish it. There are no friends, there are only pawns.


 * Glori has a history with the goblins of the Steamwheedle Cartel; even before she left Blackrock Mountain and 'defected' to the Alliance, she was contacting them for the latest explosives innovations. Since then, she has maintained good relations with the little moneygrubbers, mainly because she thinks they're too dangerous to be on the wrong side of.