User:Kiralyn/Kiralyn Windsinger

Kiralyn Windsinger is the only daughter of the druid Loran Windsinger and sentinel Vailsyn Winterscythe, who herself was a Highborne descendant. Born in the town of Nighthaven in the Moonglade over a hundred years ago, she grew up desiring to become a huntress like her mother, but has since changed the course of her life towards a new path and goal.

=Biography=

Early Years
On the surface, Kiralyn seems like a genuinely happy and outgoing Night Elf huntress. She's only around 125 years old, certainly not an elder by any stretch of the imagination. Up until a few years ago, she grew up and lived in Nighthaven.

However, she hides a deeply buried secret.

Kiralyn was the granddaughter of a highborne who had escaped being sent into the ocean along with Azshara, but chose not to leave with those who would eventually become the High Elves, the reason being that her love for her druid husband won over her desire for magical power, though only by a very small margin. Back before the Well of Eternity was sunk into the sea, her grandmother secretly managed to fill small hollowed crystals with a few drops of water from it, and then had those gems inlaid into several pieces of jewelry. By wearing the jewelry, she was able to hold the hunger at bay. It was always present, but it was bearable and could be put out of mind so long as she kept herself busy or preoccupied with other things that kept her active.

However, what she didn't count on until her daughter, Kiralyn's mother, was born, was the fact that her addiction to arcane magic could be passed on to her children. Though she had two sons later on in life, only her eldest daughter acquired the addiction. This could be attributed to the fact that the female highborne were more sensitive to magic than male. In order to help her daughter cope with the addiction, she gave one of her pieces of jewelry to her. Then, when her granddaughter, Kiralyn, was born, her third piece of jewelry was automatically passed down to her.

Her grandmother and grandfather died before Kiralyn was born, rumored to be the victim of assassination. Then, just a few years ago, when the Burning Legion ran through Kalimdor, her mother and father were both killed during the final battle against Archimonde. She was slated to fight in that battle as well, but was saved when her addiction withdrawls got so bad her relatives knocked her unconscious and sent her to Astranaar for safety. Once her mother died, all pieces of the highborne jewelry passed down to her only surviving daughter..

Post Battle of Mount Hyjal
After her parents' death, Kiralyn went to live and train in Darnassus, seeking to continue being a Sentinel like her mother before her. However, when she got there, she noticed something very wrong happening to her. The hunger for magic that had always been kept at bay by her jewelry was increasing.

Or rather... the magic within the jewelry was failing.

Kiralyn had no choice but to give up on her dream to become a Sentinel. Though only the eldest of the surviving Night Elves knew of her family's shameful past, no one suspected that the addiction to magic had been passed down through their bloodline. She couldn't risk revealing her secret to her people. She was afraid that if they knew the truth, she'd be forced into exile, just like the High Elves. Her uncles also held prominent positions in Darnassus (one as a member of the Argent Dawn, and the other as an ambassador to the Eastern Continent). Even though the men in her family showed no signs of the addiction, she couldn't risk their standings if she was found out herself.

So taking on the role as a trader as well as a huntress as an excuse to constantly be on the move, Kiralyn traveled around both continents, searching for something to help cure or at least hold the hunger back so that she can endure it enough to hide it in the face of her people once more. Until then, she constantly kept busy. She trained as a hunter to occupy her body with hard physical labor, and practiced engineering to occupy her mind with minute, tedious details in crafting mechanical objects. She also devoted a lot of time to her pets as well, who she considers her closest friends, because in the end they won't care if she's got tainted blood or not.

Interestingly enough, in recent months Kiralyn has come in contact with at least two individuals who know her secret outside her family. These are her friend and fellow hunter Xeriko and the warrior who adopted her as his younger sister Akkairn. Both have ties to demonic energies and could sense the magic in Kiralyn's blood almost right away. Both have their own addictions as well and the huntress is soothed somewhat by having kindred spirits she doesn't have to hide her secret from.

Recently, the night elf had a horrible blow to her spirit. During her last trip to the Eastern Plaguelands, she was ambushed and kidnapped by members of the Scarlet Crusade. There in Tyr's Hand, the mages there learned that she was of Highborne blood and performed experiments and tests on her. Eventually she was rescued by a group of brave warriors sent to find her by her uncle. However, even though her physical injuries have all healed to pale scars, the emotional ones still haunt her. Because of this, she tends to feel either blinding murderous rage at the sight of weaker Scarlet Crusaders, or mind numbing fear at the sight of stronger ones.

Guild History
Kiralyn had a heavy burden laid upon her shoulder, that being the leadership of the guild known as the Wolves Kingdom. Her previous guild leader felt the need to step down and tapped the young, but faithful huntress for her successor. Though very surprised by the offer made to her, and still uncertain about how well she could perform in the role, Kira accepted.

A short time after accepting her promotion from Wolfsmoon, leadership of the Wolves Kingdom had finally sapped the last of Kiralyn's energy and patience with the guild. Tired of being miserable in her situation, she came to the decision to not only return the guild to Wolfsmoon's hands, but also to leave it permanently.

Though she walked unguilded for a time, during this time period she drew the notice of the leader of the shadowy guild, the Gray Myst Alliance. After some "misunderstandings" and a bit of a wild tallstrider chase, Kiralyn was invited to join the Gray Myst by Sprok Von Gearstrom, not only to be a member of his guild, but to become his "student."

Exactly what he wants to teach her, though, still remains to be seen.

The Shen'dralar and the Sin'dorei
Complicating matters now is the fact that during her most recent excursion into Dire Maul, she learned that her maternal great-grandfather is still alive and living down there as one of the respected Lorekeepers of Eldre'Thalas. During their visits, he teaches her about life as a Highborne while she tells him of news of the rest of the world and all that has happened. She is beginning to look at her ancestory from a different angle, not from the side of the society that raised her, but of what she would have been raised in had the sundering of the world never happened and she was allowed to be who she was born to be.

Much to Kira's surprise, due to her recent training in the arcane arts within the halls of Eldre'Thalas, her grandfather has offered her the chance of a lifetime. Using a strong polymorph potion, he is able to disguise his granddaughter as one of the Sin'dorei using the bones from the dead high/blood elf in the library of Eldre'Thalas, Kariel Winthalus.

The potion, borne from a few millenia of alchemical research by the Shen'dralar, allows a person to take on the form of another person so completely that it would allow them to slip by unnoticed by guards and most others under reasonable circumstances. If used by a person of the same gender, it would make that one the identical twin of the subject whose form they are borrowing. If used by a person of the opposite gender, it would turn them into their "genetic twin" though they remain their original gender. This is because actual blood and/or bone is one of the main ingredients of the potion. Bone is only used if the subject is unfortunately dead.

However, this potion is not without its risks. If too strong a potion is made, or too much taken at once, it would make the change in the person permanent. They would not be able to transform back to who they were. On the other hand, using the weaker version of the potion allows only temporary transformations that lasts for a week at most before another "dose" is required to keep the false form. Also, the weaker potion is susceptible to alcohol, and if any is taken, it shortens the length of time a person can stay in disguise. The stronger the alcoholic beverage, the sooner it makes the disguise break.

This is to give her the opportunity to learn and practice magic among others who could be considered her peers. Despite the risks to herself and her identity, Kira chose to go along with this plan of her grandfather's. So it is with his help that she has crafted a new identity by the name of Suuri Dawnherald in anticipation of her first trip to Silvermoon City.

=Server= Kiralyn can be found on Server:Shadow Council US.