User:The Lightguard

=Malendir Lightfist=


 * "Malendir? Oh, he's just out perfecting unpredictability; man's made it into a bloody art form by now."
 * --John 'Skip' Farmoore to an Honor Guard officer.

Highlord Malendir Lightfist is a former member of the Knights of the Silver Hand and a survivor of the destruction of Lordaeron. Currently, he leads the Honor Guard and is an avid supporter and member of the Argent Crusade. Residing in and around Elwynn until recently, he has relocated to a quiet, out-of-the-way home in Ashenvale where he lives with his wife, Emirstra Lightfist, with the permission of the Sentinels.

History
Malendir has witnessed the fall of Lordaeron, seen his family ripped apart by members of the Horde, been privvy to the redemption of the death knights of Acherus, the restoration of King Wrynn to the throne, and much, much more. He's seen the best and worst that Azeroth has had to offer and still fights to see it a redeemable even in its darkest hours.

Early Life
Born in 2 B.D.P., Malendir Lightfist was the son of Drake and Merilia Irial. Drake was a wealthy landowner in western Hillsbrad, while his wife was a priestess and avid practioner of the Light's ways who held weekly sermons in a makeshift Cathedral in the Hillsbrad Fields.

When the orcs invaded Azeroth, he and his family remained blissully unaware of the occurence until the city of Stormwind was destroyed and its refugees made their way to Lordaeron, warning King Terenas and seeking refuge from the green monsters that had taken all they had ever known.

Immediately after, Drake left his family behind to find a way to aid in the defence of the kingdom. Soon after, while his family was left undefended, a small party of orcs happened upon their farm and managed to slay three of the farmhands and Malendir's eldest brother before they were brought down by a dwarf hunter passing through the region in such of some form of rare game or another.

Deciding that the family would not be safe so long as the orcs inhabited the region, the dwarf decided to escort Merilia, along with eight-year-old Malendir and his newborn sister, Alleigh, to the small town of Brill just north of Capital City where he hoped they would be able to wait out the rest of the war.

Due to their leisurely pace and the fact that Alleigh needed constant tending to, they reached Brill some six days later. It was here they would remain, with the dwarf, one Broln Ironarm, as their guardian until the end of the war. In this time, Broln often took Malendir out with him hunting and taught the boy how to fire and load a gun, fight with a sword, and track animals.

When the war ended, Merilia was told that her husband had been lucky enough to survive and had been relocated to a new fort known as Nethergarde Keep for fighting alongside Anduin Lothar at Blackrock Mountain in the final, decisive battle against the Horde in the war.