User:Velaima

Character Back-story for Velaima Shadowglade

Velaima Irkine is a mage of Dalaran, she took up studies of the arcane at the age of seven, she traveled all over the lands of Lordaeron with the mentor whose name she never learned. She was one of two apprentices at the time. Her other fellow apprentice was Landing Irvinghoff. When she was thirteen she headed off to the city of Dalaran where she took up classes and more advanced studies for ten years. During her time in Dalaran she was almost inducted into a minor group of warlocks. She gave into peer pressure and began on the darker path of magic and learned basic things but she then gave it up after seeing the pain of an accomplice trying to bind control over demonic magic. All her life she has had temper problems, bordering bipolar, that she has inherited from her mothers side of the family. She always kept her anger pent up inside and one day when she learned a friend had passed away, she snapped. She lashed out on the nearest object which happened to be an orphanage. When her anger exploded she lit the orphanage on fire. She immediately regretted it and tried to correct it. She teleported herself in and got the orphans out safely, but she still hated that she had done such an act and hated herself for it. She shut herself away in isolation for many years after. She planned on isolating herself for the rest of her life but soon things began to change. A week after leaving Dalaran, after deciding there was much she couldn’t learn from a book, but instead needed to be learned by experience, she was recruited into The Forgotten Light by Cherwini. From there she met Zakhaev and his alter ego Rhakir, who was the first friend she had in many years. It is because of him that she was able to break out of her shell. She had many good times with The Forgotten Light’s members and steadily became good friends with Zak. When the organization splintered Velaima joined up with the reformation under Illidria Dawnstorm. In time, Velaima rose through the ranks of The Last Dawn. She began as a fairly high rank and became closer to Illidria and eventually joined her council. She also grew closer to Zak and soon became more than just friends. Since becoming friends with Illidria, many things have happened, she opened up a bit to others and made more friends. One day while out in Darkshore, she was riding through the woods when she came across, Namika, one of her friends who had wrecked her bike. Velaima tried for several minutes to get Namika to regain consciousness. When she finally came to a worgen dropped out of a tree. Velaima quickly got Namika and herself onto her horse but as she was escaping the worgen lunged and sunk it’s teeth into Velaima’s calf. She shrugged it off, but after dropping Nakima off at the inn in Auberdine, Velaima fell into a two day coma. When she awoke she sought out Illidria to purge the wound of infections but the damage was done. Velaima had become one of them. Illidria found a collar which Velaima enchanted to keep her from losing her mind and becoming truly like the Worgen. At this time, the collar is only a back up incase the elixirs that she made begin to fail. She made potions based off of Ur’s studies on how to keep a person from losing their mind to the transformation. Illidria and the dragons of Wyrmrest believe that Velaima’s mother was a black dragon, despite evidence Velaima has a hard time believing it. She hasn’t inherited much from her lineage but their temper, and their love for fire. She does not possess the great physical strength of a dragon, but she does excel in fire related magics. Velaima and Zak, now known as Ardim, began planning a wedding, and before long, tied the knot. He accepts her for what she is and loves her despite of it. Velaima has been very confused and stressed by the current events in her life, but is working through them. She is fiercely loyal to her organization and its’ members and serves them to her dying breath. She seeks to make the most of her life and learn everything she can along the way in her unending pursuit of knowledge. Where life will take her she does not know but she seeks to help people along the way in what ever way she is able.