User:Dunnsworth/Lord Dunnsworth The Demonslayer


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Lord Dunnsworth the Demonslayer is a Human Paladin, Knight of The Silver Hand and former apprentice Tirion Fordring. He is a veteran of the First, Second and Third War. He is currently the commander of an expedition of paladins, clerics and soldiers, that is scheduled to reinforce Tirion Fordring in Northrend, although they are still preparing in Stormwind.

Early Years
Dunnsworth was born 12 years before the First War, and named John Dunnsworth. He was the son of James Dunnsworth, a high ranking member of the Brotherhood of the Horse, and Victoria Dunnsworth, a cleric of Northshire. He had one sister, Lady Mary Dunnsworth, a couragous female Knight. He spent the first 12 years living with his family in the Town of Goldshire, in the Kingdom of Stormwind. His life would be forever changed, and his family shattered, by the invasion of the Orcs, the conflict that would be later known as the Fisrt War.

The First War
Dunnsworth's parents were killed early on in the conflict leaving him and his sister the only remaining members of the family. 3 years after the beginning of the First War, James Dunnsworth was drafted into the military, at the young age of 15, to fight the savage Orcs on the front lines. His older sister, Mary Dunnsworth, served as a knight and fought the Orcs with bravery and honor. Both of them survived the First War, and when Dunnsworth was 19 he and his sister fled with there commander, Anduin Lothar, across the sea to Lordaraeon.

Becoming a Paladin and The Second War
Dunnsworth joined the Knights of the Silver Hand immediatley after he got to Lordaraeon. He was assigned, as a squire, to Lord Tirion Fordring. He would fight along side Fordring, a person he deeply admired, through out the Second War. The two of them formed a speacial bond. Fordring was like a father to Dunnsworth. Dunnsworth also befriended Lord Uther the Lightbringer, the first paladin and Grand Master of the Silver Hand. The 3 of them fought couragously throughout the war and after the Battle of Blackrock Spire, Dunnsworth officialy became a Paladin. The 3 paladins would be close friends through the end of the war and untill one of the three died from the blade of a fallen prince, and former paladin.

The Fall of Lordareon and the Begining of the Third War
When the Scourge unleashed the Plague of Undeath on Lordareon, and the Scourge assualted the northern Human Nations, Dunnsworth, now known as Sir Dunnsworth the Demonslayer, was the first to fight the forces of darkness on the frontlines. But as the human nations suffered defeat after defeat, Dunnsworth realized that the kingdom was lost, and followed Jaina Proudmoore across the sea to Kalimdor.

The Battle of Mount Hyjal and Return to Stormwind
Sir Dunnsworth fought valiantly at the Battle of Mount Hyjal, and heald his ground against the might of the Burning Legion. After the war, Dunnsworth returned to Stormwind, and took up the title of Lord. The newly dubbed Lord Dunnsworth the Demonslayer assisted Lord Grayson Shadowbreaker in helping to recreate the Order of the Silver Hand. 2 Weeks after he returned to Stormwind, Dunnsworth heard of the death of his good friend, Uther The Lightbringer. He immediatley traveled up North to pay tribute to his close friend.

Retaking the lands of Stormwind
Dunnsworth gathered up a band of citizens, trained them in the art of battle, and then lead them in the retaking of the Kingdom of Stormwind. They started their offensive in Elwynn Forest, the area where the capital, Stormwind City, was. They couragously retook various farms that had been taken by a group of theives known as the Defias Brotherhood. The gnolls and kobolds that were pay roll of the brotherhood only saw doom as patriotic soldiers massacered anyone who had taken territory from the kingdom. The offensive then moved on to Westfall, where the headquarters of the bortherhood was, the Deadmines. Dunnsworth lead soldiers and retook the farms of Westfall, and slaughtered the leadership of the brotherhood. They then releaved the town of Lakeshire in Redridge Mountaions, where the Blackrock Orcs were enroaching upon the land. Then, the final area was to be retaken, Duskwood. Duskwood had been taken over by a rogue nercomancer by the name of Morbent Fel. His undead minions were destroyed in the name of the Light by Dunnsworth, and alas the kingdom had been saved from the forces of evil and corruption, now Stormwind had been restored to its fromer glory after 10 years of endless war.

War in the Plaguelands
After Stormwind had been retaken, Dunnsworth traveled back to the Northern kingdoms and helped the Argent Dawn, a resistance group, fight against the Undead Scourge. Dunnsworth would see many of his comrades die fighting the legions of undeath that assaulted the resistance like a hurricane, mindless and destructive. But never the less the Scourge was defeated in the Plaguelands by the time the Burning Legion reopened the Dark Portal, the same portal that had brought the Orcs into the world. War with the Legion was upon the Horde and the Alliance once again, and now Dunnsworth would unleash his full might on the armies of fanatical demons that sought to destroy all civilazation.

Beyond the Dark Portal
When the Burning Legion launched their assault through the Dark Portal, Dunnsworth was among the first people that helped hold the line against the legion untill help could arrive. When the legion was pushed back to Outland, Dunnsworth began his long campaing to bring judgemnt to the Burning Legion and the Ilidari. The paladin traveled throughout all of Outland, fighting to bring order to the shattered world. His battle eventually brought him to Wildhammer Stronghold in Shadowmoon Valley. There he befriended a curious, young gryphon. Dunnsworth bought the gryphon off the dwarves and named him Swiftwing, after the mightiest gryphon of Aerie Peak. Dunnsworth would bring doom to Illidan and his minions, and restore order to the palnet all with Swiftwing by his side.

Fordring's Orders
After his campaigne in Outland was complete, Dunnsworth and Swiftwing returned to Stormwind to live in peace. Until one day, a letter from an old friend arrived int he mail box of Dunnsworth's home. The letter read:

Dear Lord Dunnsworth,

I ,Highlord Tirion Fordring, have reformed the Order of the Silver Hand, and have taken many paladins, clerics and soldiers to Northrend, to fight the Scourge where it is strongest. I am in need of assistance and I request that you raise 2 battalions of soldiers, a group of 40 clerics and any paladin who is brave enough to put an end to the Scourge once and for all!

The letter from his former master ,and good friend, shocked Dunnsworth. Dunnsworth knew that war was upon him again. It was now time to put an end to the Scourge once and for all, this time nothing would stop him. So Dunnsworth now trains and prepares his forces to assist Tirion Fordring, and put and end to the Wrath of the Lich King.