Gildrath

Category:Characters
== Name ==
Gildrath Thundereye. Those familiar enough to risk her temper might get away with the annoying but convenient Gilly.
==Race and Class==
Blood Elf Paladin
== Physical Traits ==
Skinny to the point of bony, the figure of a 16-year-old boy, and little but sinew and small, tight muscles under her weathered skin. By the way she moves obviously a battle veteran of several centuries, no matter how new she is to Light magic. She tends to wear a brazen smirk, the tense and impatient air of a storm about to happen, and when she forgets to watch her hands, her fingers will usually start twitching, tapping a quick, sharp rhythm on the nearest surface.
Her clothing, unless armour, is always black. She wears no jewellery except for an old ornamental hair clip featuring the Thundereye sigil, almost always inches from being shaken loose from her thin hair. That she hasn't lost it yet is a minor miracle.
== Guild ==
None.
== Occupation ==
Blood Knight, volunteer from the army proper, formerly the rank of lieutenant. She generally volunteers for whatever duty Liadrin needs done, and as a result has done brief stints of everything from training recruits to courier missions to front line battle assignments.
She has a working knowledge of herbs and stimulants, field surgery and survival tactics -- since a soldier who can't supply and treat herself is one logistics failure away from not being supplied or treated at all.
==Family==
Younger brother Valdreas, demonologist, professional smug git and Archivist for the Society. Gildrath avoids him as much as she can, and has done for almost all their adult lives.
Older brother Ventris, a Magister gone hunter, the black sheep who flirts with mana deprivation and actually thinks the Horde and losing the Sunwell is good for his species. Disowned, leaving Gildrath heir apparent to the Thundereye bloodline.
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.
Grandfather Keventrel, an shrewd and moderately influential Magister, the grand patriarch of the family.
Mezereum Whitecry, young cousin, recent magisterial graduate with flamboyant manners and some talent in cryptography.
== Background ==
In better days, Gildrath was half a warrior, half a party girl of legendary hedonism and daring. She enlisted as a soldier for Silvermoon as soon as she was old enough to wield blade or spear, and served primarily as a skirmisher, light cavalry assisting the Farstriders in defending agaisnt the Amani trolls. By her reputations she was a solid officer in the field, but achieved less than she may have carreerwise due to a tendency to be distracted by lovers and luxury at home. She has never cared about politics, reputations or appearances, only results and living it up in between achieving them.
In addition to a host of casual affairs, she had a stormy two-century on-again, off-again relationship with a childhood friend, one Farstrider Elendrel Brightwind. He taught her about survival, she showed him high society, and though they screamed at each other a lot, frequently in public, in between spats they still somehow always managed to make up and end up together, even look content that way for a year or ten at a time. Brightwind's death, coming shortly after the destruction of the Sunwell and her mother's death, is probably what finally managed to leave a lasting dent in Gildrath's former, cheerfully devil-may-care lifestyle. Unsubstantiated rumor says there was a marriage at some point.
Loss, near-constant (and voluntary) battle-duty for Quel'thalas, and the arcane addictions of her species have left Gildrath a tense, wasted and permanently furious wreck of herself. The one good thing about this is that it makes her direct, if highly volatile. When dealing with the rest of the Horde, species is mostly a non-issue; she considers everyone equally incompetent until proven otherwise, and generally worth exactly as much as the swords they can keep in fighting order. She has actually managed to form at least professional relations with competent non-Sin'dorei soldiers. 
She joined the Blood Knights early, but not without hesitation. Since then she has been a vocal advocate of sacrifice for Quel'thalas, and developed a near-indecent fascination with the Light magic that keeps her addictions at bay. The ideals of the Light she no longer has any use for. The Sin'dorei, she says, have only one Virtue left: Survival. Much as she dislikes the origins of her new powers (put bluntly, torturing a benevolent demigod because it is convenient), she holds in equal contempt any who would condemn an action taken for the survival of the Sin'dorei. Her previous good relations with the Farstriders have gone south rapidly.
When she isn't being a battlemad banshee, or indulging her infatuation with Light, Gildrath tends to fall back to drinking, fighting, questionable brands of witty repertoire and committing old-fashioned indecency on pretty men whose names she's generally forgotten by morning (if she remembered to ask at all). None of it interferes with her true priority -- the survival of Silvermoon and the Sin'dorei nation. To hear Gildrath talk, one could think she had a fixation on personally avenging the fate of the Sin'dorei on any and every target available. In most cases, one would be absolutely right.
== Family Background ==
The Thundereye bloodline is old but mildly controversial. Its members are characterised most by their pursuit of excellence in whatever field they've chosen. While a lot of them have been 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, extreme pragmatism, violent tempers, and for being excessively competitive, especially with each other - as long as it doesn't damage the interests of the family.
The family patriarch, 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 been forced to swear off adventuring, and has instead turned to Silvermoon politics and domineering his family.
== Criminal Record ==
None.
== Current Status ==
With Silvermoon's defence more or less stable, on loan to various Horde commanders, and surprisingly hating it less than she thought.
== Personal Notes ==
The profile is rumour, and rumours are unreliable.
Category:Horde
Category:Blood Elf
Category:Paladin