User:Reign/Teridastrasz

Ter is not the elf he appears to be. In fact, this undead warrior is Teridastrasz of the Red Dragonflight, twice saved by the demigoddess Aviana.

Personality
As a dragon, Teridastrasz sees himself above other races in the world; however, as a red dragon, he still respects the life in other people. Since his undeath, Teridastrasz has become depressed. No longer able to enter his true form, he longs for the skies; a flying mount is simply not the same.

Teridastrasz, although a lover of life, has no positive feelings towards the Forsaken. They sicken him, and the dragon often goes so far as to completely avoid Lordaeron save for his times in Acherus. As of the events at Angrathar the Wrathgate, Ter has gone from being sickened to despising the Forsaken with all of his being.

Pre-Death
The red dragons of Azeroth are kind creatures and respectful of all life, be it Alliance, Horde, or otherwise. Since the shaping of Azeroth, the Red Dragonflight has worked with their brothers from other flights to watch over the creation of the Titans. And Teridastrasz is no different.

Although a relatively young dragon, Teridastrasz is still older than many individuals alive today, save for the night elves who lived during the War of the Ancients. One of the larger conflicts the leviathan has participated in was the War of the Shifting Sands, where he was one of the many dragons who accompanied Caelestrasz to the battlefield.

Like all red dragons, Teridastrasz was forced to work for the Horde during the Second War. Specifically, the magnificent beast was forced into being the mount of Broxigar, the orc who would one day change the course of history. While injured during a battle in the Hillsbrad Foothills, Teridastrasz was abandoned by the warrior. Believing he would soon die, Teridastrasz decided it a better fate than being a slave. However, before his mind faded, a beautiful, winged figure descended down and healed his wounds. Although alive and free from the powers of the Demon Soul so long as he did not approach it again, Teridastrasz did not attack those who had abused him, instead fleeing into the mountains of the Hinterlands. There he would stay, tending to his wounds, until a while after the clash at Grim Batol.

Between the Second and Third Wars, Teridastrasz came out of hiding and returned to his people. Soon after, Alexstrasza assigned the dragon to watch over the land of Quel'Thalas. It is here where Teridastrasz first took on the high elf form he would later become trapped in, going under the alias Ter.

During his time in Silvermoon City, Ter would become a soldier in the army of Quel'Thalas. When the Scourge attacked during the Third War, Ter was one of those on the front lines; not because he felt it necessary to keep his true form a secret and thus help defend a "lesser race", but because the undead army had broken the cycle of life and death that the Red Dragonflight represented. Upon the death of Sylvanas Windrunner, Ter returned to his dragon form and fled the battle, fearing for his own life. Even with later threats, such as the madness of Malygos or the invasion of the Burning Legion, this decision to flee would haunt Teridastrasz from then on.

Years later, at the Battle of Angrathar the Wrathgate, the undead Forsaken unleashed their New Plague upon the Horde, Alliance, and Scourge. Teridastrasz was one of the red dragons who came in after the devastation, burning away at the land so the infected would not rise as undead, and attacking the Forsaken who had stayed behind. Although he was saddened at the loss of life, as were his brothers and sisters, the great dragon found himself cheering that the ones who caused so much damage to Azeroth were finally hit with a harsh blow themselves. Shifting into his elven guise, Teridastrasz went to investigate the remains of the battleground more closely, but was caught off guard. A minion of the Scourge, somehow having survived both the New Plague and the flames, struck out and Ter fell.

Life After Death
Some time later, Ter would awaken as a mindless servant of the Scourge in a necropolis above Dragonblight, alongside dozens of other Death Knights. None, not even he or the lich in charge of the floating fortress, was aware of his true past and was simply believed by the Scourge members with their minds still intact to be a blood elf. In his time serving the Scourge, Ter would go through with many foul acts that would have sickened him had his memories been unlocked from the depths of the dragon's consciousness.

However, on an attack against the Wyrmrest Accord, Ter found himself face to face with the Knights of the Ebon Blade. The free death knights had moved on to the necropolis above the Dragonblight, hoping to add to their numbers and lessen the forces of the Scourge. Taken into custody along with many others by Keritose Bloodblade, Ter was brought to the Ebon Blade's temporary base in Dragonblight, where they had hired Belnistrasz in hopes that a red dragon would better understand how to free an undead than they would, having been freed on accident themselves. Belnistrasz immediately recognized Ter, and told the knights of his identity. While shocked, Keritose accepted this and they began discussing a way to keep Teridastrasz from transforming while still under Scourge control.

The whispers of the Lich King strengthened the captured death knights, and they broke free of their bonds, battling the Knights of the Ebon Blade and Belnistrasz. Although many on both sides were slain, Ter came to his own senses when the spirit of a familiar winged woman came down in the middle of the fight. Her powers over beings of the sky, dragons included, wiped the control of the Scourge from Ter's mind. Teridastrasz was once again his own person.

However, all was not joyous. Ter found he could not revert to his true dragon form, and when brought before Alezstrasza she expressed concern, and said that because he died in his high elf disguise, Teridastrasz was now and forever stuck in that shape. Although this caused severe depression-and he found Korialstrasz strangely sympathetic, as if he had once been stuck in a mortal form before-, Teridastrasz did not falter from his loyalty to the dragons, or his newfound respect for the Knights of the Ebon Blade. From that day forth, Ter would become the representative of his people for those freed of the Scourge, and made it a goal in his life to save the many undead dragons from their fate.

Aiding him in his endeavors is Horakastrasz, an impatient young drake and old friend, who aids Ter in flying between Wyrmrest Temple, Acherus, and the Vermillion Redoubt.