Arhenna

Full Name: Arhena Renaal Dawnstalker
Age: 26 years, (24 at time of death.)
Hieght: 5 feet, 11 inches
Class: Death Knight
Affiliations: The Zephyr Crew
Alignment: Lawful Good
Appearance: Standing at nearly six feet, Arhena is tall for a female sin'dorei. She has a sturdy build and can often come off a bit imposing to strangers. Her eyes give a dull blue glow, often somewhat masked by the rim of a wide-brimmed hat. She has a mess of curly red hair that currently drops in thick waves past her shoulders. She looks a bit tomboyish.
==Personality==
While she may briefly appear intimidating to those who don't know her, her mostly optimistic disposition gives way to a genuinely kind heart. While mostly introverted, she has a difficult time keeping emotion from being clearly read across her face. She is sincere at all times, as well as humble. Not much of this changes in private, as she keeps an honest face and endeavors to remain optimistic even in the face of trials. She is mostly soft-spoken and laid-back. Her friendly demeanor extends to all races and she finds no one sentient of more or less value than another.
==Background==
===A Clean Slate===
Once, there was a human woman named Arhena Tarkheena. In her early-twenties and having experienced many unfortunate and dramatic things, she longed for an escape. Calling upon the aid of the mage Xhenara, the two of them set about to making a suitable sin'dorei disguise for Arhena. While Xhenara worked at the magic, Arhena studied the history of the race she planned on disguising herself as, as well as endeavoring to glean what little she could of their language. Once this was completed, she gave herself a suitable surname and Xhenara granted her a portal to Shattrath City.
Once there, Arhena made many tentative friends. The disguise, however convincing, was only temporary and lasted small amounts of time. It became harder and harder for Arhena to remain with the friends she'd made without causing any slip-ups and there were already two people who had seen through her disguise. One of these, a sin'dorei warlock by the name of Soleina de'Selienne, held the information over Arhena's head with vague hints that she would eventually find a reason to use Arhena through the threat of blackmail.
Confiding in the troll mage Juni'andi, with whom she'd grown very close to, Arhena gave her real identity and expressed a sincere desire to make the change permanent. After the positive experience with Juni'andi, Arhena felt she could no longer keep up the charade with Lindaris Velan'dorei, a sin'dorei she had grown even closer to and had strong feelings for. Her attempt to express the truth to him ended understandably poorly, Lindaris fleeing from her and effectively cutting off their relationship for a time. With Xhenara's aid and over the course of many weeks, Juni'andi converted the disguise from an illusion to a kind of polymorph. After the change was complete, Arhena was physically indistinguishable from other sin'dorei.
===The Zephyr Crew===
With her completed identity and her growing fluency in both Thalassian and Orcish, Arhena Dawnstalker grew more comfortable in her exploration of Kalimdor and mingling with other races. She joined the Zephyr Crew and worked as a member of security during tavern hours, under the Forsaken Caeryn Peyton and the Orc, Bloodaxe.
The Drunken Kodo soon felt more like a home than a workplace as she met and made more friends, both amongst members of the Zephyr Crew and the many patrons that frequented the Drunken Kodo. It was during this time that Arhena again began correspondance with Lindaris, who had since their last real meeting given her nothing but mixed messages in regards to his feelings about their relationship.
In the mean time, Soleina and Arhena spoke more often and much more cordially as Soleina no longer had anything real to use against Arhena. Strangely, the both of them grew more and more attached to each other before actually admitting to their mutual feelings.
===The Second Scourge Invasion===
Things went relatively well for a time. But peace doesn't seem to last and it wasn't long before the mysterious plague-filled crates began to show up, zombies crawling out of the wood-work as folks across Azeroth became infected. Treatment by priest and paladins helped stem the epidemic, but soon only the experienced Argent Dawn healers could provide any kind of cure for the fast-acting plague, and many simply didn't make it to their aid in time.
Soleina disappeared. After months of comfortable courtship and time spent enjoying the others' company, she was gone. Arhena, in spite of being no stranger to this kind of loss, was unconsolable. She feared eating and could not sleep in the wake of her loss. She searched and searched for any sign of Soleina and found none. Fearing that by this point her search would end with finding Soleina a mindless undead, Arhena gave up. She wandered aimlessly through old haunts.
In her wanderings through Silvermoon, she came across a man that she recognized as an aquaintance of Soleina's, one Lokasenna Vi'le. Phsyically strong, yet mentally weakened in her state and easily malleable already, Lokasenna took the oppurtunity to manipulate Arhena, taking little time during the epidemic to convince her that all would be equal and happy under the banner of the Scourge and the rule of the Lich King. Longing for that equality, a trait that it seemed to her to be sorely lacking in the people of the day, Arhena drank in every word he said.
Confident that she would arise with her mind intact and willing to serve the Lich King as a death knight, Lokasenna injected her with the same infection before quickly ending her life.
===Flight of Shame===
It wasn't long after the Lich King betrayed his death knights during the battle of Light's Hope Chapel that Arhena realized the full effect of what she had done, what she had had a hand in aiding. Her strange relationship with Lokasenna Vi'le, who at that point had given himself a different name, fell apart as she was unable to cope with what she was. She had betrayed all those who had cared for her, abandoned her friends in the Zephyr Crew and turned her back on everything, all for the promise of a world united.
She fled, away from everything she knew. She effectively disappeared with her shame, with no word to anyone as to her whereabouts or when she might come back. Certain that no one would care either way, she didn't feel any desire to try and spark up old connections.
After roughly two years of no correspondance with anyone, Arhena finally made her way back to familiar places. Many old aquaintances and friends were gone. Soleina was still missing, members of the Zephyr Crew and many of the regular patrons had also fallen out of touch and couldn't be found. Her return was tentative and she struggled to fight the urge to run from society all over again.
==Recent Times==
With her return came many difficult things to swallow. The understandable loss of many friends in the wake of her state as a death knight is only one among them. Her relationship with Dr Vi'le, who seemed to take great pride in his state as a death knight, has been rather irreparably damaged with her inability to cope with who she was and her subsequent disappearance. Thusly, her attempts at rekindling any romantic feelings have gone unsuccessful.
After a time she tentatively rejoined the Zephyr Crew and has spent much time in the company of Bloodaxe, who has been an invaluable source of stability and acceptance.
Through the last few months, she's dealt with an enormous amount of disappointment from many angles, but it appears to have made her stronger and she has resolved to push through it and be the best that she can be at all she puts her hands to. In spite of being relatively unhappy, she does what she can to remain hopeful and optimistic that something will work out, sometime.
Category:Horde
Category:Blood Elf
Category:Death Knight