User:Waycrest

Early Years
Jyxie Lynn Waycrest was born to an independent and fierce woman of Kul Tiras,, and a High Elf, Anador Brightwing, who left Quel'thalas because the tranquil forests were far too uninteresting to merit exciting adventure. But even with a daughter on the way, Anador was not one to settle long; it would not be long before this young family was split. Anador remained until Jyxie reached the age of two, then he sailed home to the Eastern Kingdoms without so-much as a goodbye. Life proved difficult for Mishan; she was obligated to her duty as Captain of Kul Tiran Sentry as well as providing for her daughter. Unfortunately for the young half-elf her mother left her in the care of an experienced mage while she was off fighting against sea creatures and pirates anonymous. Logan Lockley was a simple mage that spent much of his time reading and tending to a variety of garden activities. When Mishan brought Jyxie to him he was enthralled to teach her the laws and rule of magic, especially arcane and the disciplines that followed.

Growing up


Jyxie's father left her at an early age, his restlessness and sense of adventure overwhelming his duty to his home. So Jyxie was raised as an only child by her mother Mishan, who at this time, besides caring for her daughter, also began establishing a reputation for herself amongst the military of Kul Tiras.

Jyxie loved to read, and read all she could, her favorite reading materials were her father's old Spell books, which she discovered she could not only understand, but she cold also cast some of the spells within. She had inherited her father's magic and proved powerful from the start, a true protégé, and she was going to make her mark on the world.

At age thirteen her magic had matured enough, so she enrolled in the Kul Tiras Academy of Magic. Unlike the stuffy libraries and classrooms of Dalaran, the Academy had large open air dueling arenas and class periods. Although especially gifted in magic, Jyxie could not totally control her magic at times; she sometimes injured her co-students and teachers when it got away from her, Instructor Bernard still has not grown his beard back...Eventually the academy could no longer cover the expenses that Jyxie had brought on by damage and destruction and thus she was expelled.

At the Age of sixteen, she had a nasty encounter with a Couatl, a vicious serpent beast that had stowed away aboard a visiting trader's vessel. The couatl had escaped from the hold of a Mr., a Tinker who had taken up board in the Waycrest home while he was in town with no place to stay. One day during a casual stroll through the little woodland Kul Tiras had Jyxie encountered the foul beast. Using her arsenal of spells, agility and intelligence she managed to slay the monster, but not without injury, during the battle, the couatl managed to scrape her abdomen deeply, and has left a scar that remains even to this day.

Experience off the Island
Two years after her incident with the couatl, Jyxie could not find the life of bettering Kul Tiras by aiding the local people with her magic, so she set sail for the Eastern Kingdoms in order to search for her father. En route to Menethil Harbor, Jyxie's ship was waylaid by pirates, although she could keep them at bay with magic, she would not last long against the sheer number of buccaneers. Shortly after her capture a neighboring vessel approached the two ships. When the ship came into view its name came clear, “The Leviathan”, and quickly the soldiers of the Leviathan flooded the buccaneer’s vessel – their leader, a William Curtis Stone, cut Jyxie’s ties and freed her crew. He was a Paladin traveling home to the Kingdoms after a visit to Kul Tiras. They had agreed to set anchor together for the night incase the buccaneers should return in greater numbers, thankfully none did. The next morning the crews parted ways.

Jyxie spent the next few years exploring the Eastern Kingdoms, hoping to one day catch up or find her father. She ventured from the forests of Quel'thalas to the depths of Blackrock Mountain, even through the troll ruins of Stranglethorn Vale. But each search was a dead end. She was about to give up hope when she decided to put her bias aside and take a visit to Theramore, the kingdom across the sea which reigned over. When she arrived she was surprised to find “The Leviathan” anchored in the harbor, but the familiar crew had gone astray. When she approached Jaina Proudmoore the two fair magi put their powers of divination together in hopes to locate Jyxie’s father, Anador Brightwing. Alas neither could locate the self-centered High Elf and Jyxie gave up hope. At this Jaina offered Jyxie a place in her military; but fearing this would bring shame to her family and Kul Tiras she respectfully declined.

A few months after her venture to Theramore Isle Jyxie found herself back in the Eastern Kingdoms, in Ironforge more specifically. She decided to take up a temporary residence while she sifted through their massive library. Ironically she came across a few members of the Proudmoore Vanguard, such as Vice-Admiral Monssul and Admiral Tseric Valamar, highly respected gentlemen of Boralus (the capital of Kul Tiras). There they convinced Jyxie that joining the Vanguard would change her life for the better, and so she took them up on the offer and joined the militia.

Together Tseric, Monssul and Jyxie sailed back to Theramore where Jyxie officially joined the Proudmoore Vanguard. She was welcomed by none other than William Curtis Stone, who was a personal friend of Tseric and a valued commander of the Vanguard. Together both Jyxie and William excelled through the ranks and were quickly promoted to Vice-Admiral, William retained his flag ship “The Leviathan”, while Jyxie received the flag ship “The Endeavor”. With Will’s help they installed mage cannons to “The Endeavor” and buffed up Theramore Isles defenses.

The next few months were a flurry of raids and attacks on Horde settlements and working to safeguard Theramore from the constant attacks of the horde. The Horde launched a counter-offense, and managed to break through the main gates of Theramore. The Vanguard was prepared, but not powerful enough to block their advance, the brute force of the horde made it to the mage sanctum of Lady Proudmoore. There, the last stand against the Horde was led by the Admiral and his Vice-Admirals, Jyxie and William. Jyxie was able to destroy a large portion of the enemies by burning the lower portion of the tower, the staircase crumbled beneath the pressure of the fire and the rampaging orcs and tauren. Only a scattered few of the horde invasion force remained. Quickly the Vanguard’s elite dealt with the stragglers, leaving none alive.

Soon after the Horde invasion, Jyxie and William began to court each other. They held their first date looking over the fields of Westfall from the river-valley in the Westbrook Mountains. From then on, they could constantly be seen smiling at each other. They kept their relationship quiet in public as such relationships could be used against them by their foes, and even against the Vanguard itself.

During the course of Jyxie's travels, she was waylaid once more by Pirates, this time in the South Seas by none other than the Bloodsail Buccaneers. Her ship suffered heavy damage and she was forced to take shelter in Booty Bay where she was stranded until her ship was repaired or the Admiral and William made it to her. William made it to Booty Bay much faster than the Admiral who was onto clues about mysterious ships and soldiers invading all over the world, but no traces to be found. This was later to prove to be a much bigger threat than the ghost ships they seemed to be.

After The Endeavor was repaired Jyxie aided William in his search for his own family. While traveling, both Jyxie and William were caught up in the Emerald Void, the realm between Azeroth and the Emerald Dream. There in the pocket dimension, they discovered William's family, his long-lost brother battling none other than William's father; an all powerful evil wraith hell-bent on killing off his own bloodline as only they could harm him it seemed. When William and Jyxie joined the fight, William's father revealed to his sons his murder of their sister. William's brother, in a blind rage attacked his father with a vengeance only to let down his guard and be killed. Absorbing his son’s energies, William's father turned his attention to the interlopers in “his realm”. Jyxie and William battled for ages, although they were weary and distraught, they were able to lock away William's father forever within the Emerald Void.

When they were expelled from the Void by some unknown force, Jyxie found several arcane runes embedded with an odd fel aura. And while studying and tampering with them she accidentally opened a loop hole in the ley lines of the Dark Beyond; sending both her and William to another dimension, a mirror to their own where they both did not exist normally. This banishment from their native realm was a blow, now they had only each other, this caused them to bond much stronger than most couples. But always lurking in their thoughts was the fact that William's father could possibly be watching them from his prison in the void which was open to all realms...

Strangers in Another Dimension


Living in a new dimension was a strange experience, here they were unknown and had no history, they might well have been phantoms to the people of this realm had it not been for the large amount of Adventurers around. They had to create their own histories, covering details like the fact that their mirrored families had their own versions of themselves, named the same but with a completely new history. In this world, Jyxie's father had never left and was a cleric, not a mage. And so, in this dimension, the native Jyxie was a cleric and the native William was not from Lordaeron but lived in Gilneas, living the life of an ordinary soldier. They were startled to discover this dimension was younger than their own, by at least five years. Even more surprising was their meeting with this dimension's Tseric Valamar (or Arduron Valandale), ironically his name was not the same as their mirrored selves. A Tirasian once again, but a powerful warrior and hero of the Grand Alliance, this Val was much younger and also unmarried. He fought in gleaming armor and had left Kul Tiras at a young age. This Val also hated pirates with an incredible hate due to his own presence at the Siege of Drisburg and the birth of the Bloodsail Buccaneers. For a time, Jyxie and William served with Arduron in the Theramore Military.

During this time they began to think about their new future, a future together. They soon began to date seriously and soon had decided that they wanted each other forever and so a few months later aboard the now recovered Endeavor of this world, they were planning their wedding, only to be interrupted by the sudden arcane disturbance around them, they had been transported back to their own dimension as phantoms to see that their old dimension had turned into a nightmare.

Echoes of the Past
The Phantom ghost ships had turned out to be much more than spirits, but a fully fledged empire out to rule the world. They watched as the “Old Endeavor” stood as a flagship for the last remaining free people of Azeroth. Orc and Human, Forsaken and Dwarf alike all fought with each other against the monstrous Baruan Empire. Tseric had not fared well at all, he stood in council with the last live and free leaders, the Proudmoore siblings ( and Lady ),, , and  stood with Tseric as they waited for doom to take them. The land of Desolace stood as the last bastion of freedom in an ever darkening world. The Night Elves had been burned inside their own world tree, the Trolls were a dwindling number, and the Tauren slaughtered, the Gnomes extinct, the Blood Elves joining the Baruan Empire, the other races were not present. Jyxie and William watched as the last heroes of Azeroth fell to the might of the Baruan Empire. The Last to fall was Magni Bronzebeard, Thrall and Sylvanas, and none other than Tseric Valamar, a factor in their defeat was revealed in none other than Fritz Monssul, a previous Admiral of the Vanguard, and none other than the regretful who had been promised his people's safety in exchange for information on the other horde strongholds. In the last battle, Vol'jin had fallen to the Baruan Emperor Galician Greystone and Monssul had been slain by Tseric. But the battle was over; Galician was barely wounded while Tseric was dead on his feet. William and Jyxie had tried all they could but they could not stop the terrible vision, then a miracle occurred, just as Galician prepared to execute Tseric, calling him “My most hated and dangerous undying enemy”, a sudden Arcane discharge had warped the dying Tseric into the mirror dimension.

The triumvirate of Proudmoore Vanguard was reunited once more. Jyxie had frantically tried to heal him, and saved him from the brink of death, Tseric woke up. But the damage was done. Tseric was a changed man, he'd seen a world fall, seen his family's murderer face to face and had failed to do a thing about either. When Jyxie and William told Tseric of the news he was in a new world, and that they would soon be married Tseric gave them possibly the most sarcastic congratulations they'd ever heard. They gave him the Endeavour and prepared for their wedding, hoping Tseric would take them up to be their best man at the wedding, but the day came and Tseric did not show, he was in fact drinking himself into a stupor in Booty Bay. The wedding went smoothly and the two were wed happily, though they planned to give Tseric a piece of their minds once they caught him. That wouldn't be for a long time.

Visiting Khaz Modan
After their wonderful honeymoon in an Arathi farmland retreat, they had noticed an odd drake flying off the coast lines of Arathi and in the mountains of Khaz Modan. Jyxie and William took it upon themselves to investigate these strange sightings. Eventually while hiking in Khaz Modan they stumbled upon a complex cavern in the mountains. Within they discovered something monstrous, a field of hatchlings and eggs for the Black Dragonflight. Swiftly they were cornered by black drakes inside, the following battle left Jyxie stranded in a collapsed tunnel and William nowhere to be seen. She managed to teleport herself out, and for many weeks was in a terrible depression at the loss of her husband and the fact he'd never see his children that she had just learned she was pregnant with.

Present
She traveled for weeks hoping to find any news, her travels took her to Booty Bay, a rumor that a dark-haired paladin had been wandering around Stranglethorn had given her some small hope, but the search proved fruitless and she sought refuge in the Booty Bay tavern, only to find Tseric Valamar drinking himself away in a balcony table. After chastising him and slapping some sense into him, she convinced him to search out a new life in this dimension, even as she herself had seemingly lost hers. After Tseric's crew had dragged him out to sea and adventure, Jyxie underwent the trials of a pregnant mother, without William. When at last her child was born, Jyxie named him Miles Delmar Stone; she weaned him and they began their life together, Jyxie left Azeroth for Outland to maybe find some solace away from the world that had left her husband less and without a real family besides her son. She eventually settled in the Blade's Edge Mountains where she and her son built a small sanctuary from the rest of the world just within Sylvanaar, a night elf refuge town.

Eventually she returned to Azeroth and gave her son to the Argent Dawn at a young age, where he’d be put through vigorous training to become a great paladin of the light – like his father. At this time she joined an Imperial Covenant called “The Rising Covenant”. Through this guild she spent time tending to wounded soldiers and aiding the Alliance in its ever growing cause to slay evil.

Personality
Despite her mixed bloodline Jyxie is often mistaken for a full blooded High Elf, likely due to her physical appearance and her well mannered demeanor. She is terribly humble for an Archmage of her age and often is looked upon with repugnance because of it. While the people of her Nation, Kul Tiras, love telling tales of her adventures from her couatl encounter to her military exploits.

To friends, Jyxie is warm and generous, freely swapping stories and information, as well as guidance and wisdom. She welcomes all friends and family with open arms and full hospitality. And as a lover she is passionate and devoted; and she’ll extend all her time and energy making her husband happy.

As a mentor she is a strict and highly disciplined mage, always alert and keeping her students on their toes. She’ll often result in drastic measures to teach her students about the chaos within Azeroth; such as throwing random mage battles with her students or simply surprising them with a chilling or blazing spell.

Jyxie is a fierce opponent on the battle field, with the skills to open up the skies and rain fire down upon full militias. Or lift the waters of the Great Sea to force tidal waves of Elementals to wash over her enemies. In spite of her powers she is rarely called upon to fight in battle, more than likely because leaders of the Alliance do not fully understand and trust her abilities.