Valdreas

== Physical Traits ==
Val has the posture of a martial artist, his family's trademark reddish brown hair and an unusually robust build for a practitioner of magical arts. His general manner contains no small amount of smug, arrogant, and casually sardonic.
He tends toward a neat, well-groomed look, favours dark colours, and wears a collection of smooth, snug bands around his left wrist - there is no obvious way to remove them, short of cutting, and rumor has it the names of his demons are burned into the inside of them, along with the names of the unfortunates who have struck deals with him. He carries a single carefully honed but highly impractical dagger at most times.
Most of his hide (all but face and hands) is covered in demonic inscriptions, tattooed and cut into his skin. The initiated may recognize them as wards of concealment.
== Occupation ==
A student of demonology, necromancy and all manner of dark arts. Though some would (justifiably) call him a master, Val is yet far from satisfied with the completeness of his knowledge.
==Family==
Grandfather Keventrel, a shrewd and moderately influential Magister, the grand patriarch of the family, and a former trustee of the Society. Near-lethally injured in the battle for the Sunwell, these days a comatose invalid, unlikely to live much longer .
Older brother Ventris, disowned after the war for treasonous opinions on Sindorei mana-addiction.
Mezereum Whitecry, young cousin.
Dead family: Older sister Gildrath, the middle sibling, a driven but scandalously hedonist Blood Knight, killed in Icecrown. Parents deceased, father Dreaven with Sunbolt's expedition and mother Rathya while fighting the Scourge. Rathya was Keventrel's eldest daughter, and retained the family name.
== Background ==
The youngest of three siblings who was good but never exceptional in arcane studies: this was unacceptable in the Thundereye family, with its emphasis on excellence in all things. Val dealt with the disappointment by developing a talent for sarcasm, scandal and venomous insight instead. Gleeful use of this ability has, over the centuries, earned him a reputation as an unrepentant bastard who takes gratuitous pleasure in provoking people for the sake of it, fraternising with every kind of social element and manipulating, outraging and/or embarrassing his family and peers for no better reason than to see if he can. Though his Magister brother and Farstrider sister did their best to keep their sibling in line, Val still managed to wrack up a good deal of scandal in the flavour of affairs, outrage and narrowly escaped duels in his youth - including rumods that the disastrously bad blood between him and his sister was simply a cover to conceal an illicit affair.
In itself, this would have been relatively harmless. However, in the course of playing the black sheep and collecting questionable pursuits, he also discovered exactly what it is he excels at. His particular brand of single-mindedness, perseverance and absolute immorality were very nearly tailor-made for black magic. Val left Silvermoon, supposedly to seek mentors in the only magical arts he'd ever excelled at. He spent large chunks of time outside Silvermoon, where magisters had less power to curtail the study of demons and necromancy and Shadow. He claims centuries of expertise in each, and worlds of contempt for fools who would elevate demons, death or darkness to objects of worship, rather than tools to be mastered to further one's own agendas. Still, rumor has it he's cut his fair share of dark deals for power. How much of the usual gossip regarding demon blood, sold souls and virgin sacrifices is actually true is anyone's guess.
Though Val has maintained the lazy, hedonist dilettante routine, the veneer of petty self-indulgence has become paper-thin. Under it he is intelligent, rigorously disciplined, and completely disinterested in any morality besides his own agenda. Those with any closer dealings with him know that his days of seducing boys and parading halfbreed whores around social dos are long gone, and that these days his lifestyle has become practically ascetic (possibly because any excess and indulgence is dangerous to one who would command demons). The one thing that hasn't changed is his taste for control and disregard for law or common decency. If anything he has only become more extreme with it -- or perhaps he always was a sadist as well as a bastard, and has simply lost interest in pretending otherwise. Immediately following the war, he was one of the few who reveled in the easy accessibility of fel magic and hunted Wretched with suspicious glee.
But even bastards can be brought low. Since the war Val has stuck closer to his family than before: in the same decade, the family's lines have been decimated. The deaths of his mother and sister (one in the war, one more recently in Northrend), the tragic injury and sickness of his once-formidable grandfather, his brother the heir being disowned and exiled for treason - events seem to have conspired to put Val in control of the family's fortunes and estates. Rumors persist on the various tragedies being less accidental than they seem - but if Val did murder and scheme his way to inheritance, he hasn't enjoyed the spoils much. Over the last decade he has retreated more and more to the family estates, and rumor has it that for the last year, he hasn't even left his grandfather's study.
Still, even scheming bastard eccentrics have their uses, when they have the control over demons and shadow that Val claims. Though he seems to accumulate power for his own enjoyment rather than any specific agenda, rumor has it he can sometimes be prevailed upon to take an interest in matters of black magics, if his price is met. Given the freedom he still enjoys, it's likely at least one such deal has been struck with a person in a position to keep the authorities out of his business.
== Family Background ==
The Thundereye bloodline claims to trace it's ancestors past the founding of Quel'thalas, to the exile from Kalimdor and the better days before it. They are characterised most by their pursuit of excellence in whatever field they've chosen. While a some of them have been exceptional magisters or soldiers, they've also been quick to step off the beaten path when circumstances have changed, and risk has come with the prospect of great rewards. They have a reputation for ambition, pragmatism, violent tempers, and for being excessively competitive, especially with each other - but also furiously loyal to the interests of the family as a whole.
The grand patriarch of the family Keventrel Thundereye was heavily involved in The Society of Secrets and Antiquities in Sunbolt's day. Since a warwound left him limping with a staff, he was forced to swear off adventuring, and turned to the internal politics in Silvermoon and domineering his family. He had some part in the reclamation of the Sunwell - injuries int he battle left him near death, however, and the efforts of the family doctors notwithstanding, is sloly wasting away in a coma.
== Criminal Record ==
None, though on record as a practitioner of demonic magics. As such, it's quite likely he's done at least a few things that don't quite hold up to inspection, and merely not been caught at any of it
== Current Status ==
Lurking in comfort and security on his estates.
== Personal Notes ==
Information in the profile is rumor, and as such may be grossly inaccurate. The char is currently being played only as a plot NPC.
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