Tesla

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== Life Before Death ==
Tesla was born to Thomas and Clara Chainweight in the hamlet of Darrowshire. The family made its trade blacksmithing, a craft the Chainweights had practiced for generations. Tesla took to the the forge from a very early age, much to the dismay of her mother, who hoped she would show an aptitude for magic as she had. Her father was pleased, however, and her mother was somewhat mollified by the interests of Tesla's two younger twin sisters, Elisa and Candace.
Despite being the oldest, the most physically capable, and the favorite of their father, Tesla felt inferior to her sisters. They were both clever, thoughtful, magical, and worst of all, beautiful. Identical in their looks and demeanors, they seemed to highlight all of what Tesla considered her flaws. She was rough and ruddy from her time at the forge, tomboyish by nature and temperment, awkward of frame, and unremarkable facially. The oldest Chainweight girl slowly began grinding an axe in her heart that would leave her bitter and unfulfilled, driving her deeper into her work and into her relationship with her father.
In their late teens, the twins turned away from the family business and traveled to Andorhal to seek apprenticeship in the art of enchantment, hoping to drum up contacts before moving to Stormwind. Thomas Chainweight was dismayed to lose to potential contributors to the family business, but Tesla redoubled her work in in the business and the Chainweight Armory flourished. Requests for weaponry and armor were in great supply at this time. Rumors of a new evil springing in the east were emerging, but the Chainweight family felt very far and very removed from conflict. During this time Tesla rebuilt her relationship with her mother somewhat, despite the tumultuous arguments the two would get into until the day they both died.
Elisa and Candace returned home nearly a year later, flush with their stories of the big cities of the Eastern Continent and full of tales of magic and adventure. They also returned sick, coughing sporadically as if with mild colds. Clara became sick violently after the twins' return, at first just coughing as the twins were, then burning with fever and scratching at the emerging sores springing from her neck and armpits. Tesla and her father buried their mother just two days later on the small hill behind the armory. Earlier that day, Clara, raving with fever, accused her oldest daughter of poisoning her. Even knowing that it was the fever speaking, using her mother's voice as a possessing demon would, Tesla argued back, spitting insults and defenses until her father pulled her away. Tesla never had a chance to discuss this event with any of her family. Her twins passed away within an hour of one another the following day. Her father held on a little longer, finally dying three days later.
Tesla only began to show symptoms of the plague a few days after the rest of her family was in the ground. She worked, pounding swords with her stout blacksmith's hammer, up until the last moment of her life. Tesla met the darkness slumped over her anvil, her swollen, sore-covered knuckles frozen in a death-grip around the handle of her hammer.
== Thralldom to the Lich King ==
Tesla awoke to the will of the Lich King still over her anvil. She, and the armory had remained undisturbed. In the oblivion between death and rebirth, Tesla's slumped position caused the worst ravages of rot and time to concentrate on her face, both low to the ground and full of the pooled humors of the body.
Tesla rose on tattered legs and on the Lich King's mental command, resumed her work of creating weaponry. From time to time, other undead would wander into the armory, often guided by a greater servant of the King, one capable of commanding these mindless ones. These servants would gather up Tesla's creations and take them away, presumably to arm the footsoldiers of the Lich King's army. Sometimes she would be aided by cadaverous servants. Sometimes she worked alone.
She had no real consciousness to speak of while in the Lich King's thrall, but some part of her burned in shame and fury whenever she caught sight of her hideousness in the reflections of the swords and armor lining the walls. There was a tiny kernel of sentiment within her, something that grew by small degrees with each reflected glance at her eyeless, sagging features. These thoughts breezed through her skull in sharp moments of clarity, during which she would look about in terror and agony before abruptly being seized again by the mindlessness of her slavery. Soon the breeze became a gust, then a gale. Eventually she began to hear words in her head again, the first of these being "unfair."
The last of these psychic storms brought Tesla out of her thralldom. As words, memory, and emotion began to swirl in her mind, she felt the weight of her hammer in one hand. For all its weight and familiarity, it felt to her like her right hand held every weapon she'd ever made: it held her hammer, sure, but also every blade, every dagger, and every axe, one she hadn't realized that she'd carried in her heart. The axe she'd forged in the fires of buried feelings of inferiority, ugliness, and androgyny in life served her best after its conclusion. She broke free of the Scourge, knowing only dimly that she had been assisted in some way from afar, by some magic or will outside her own.
== Life With the Vanguard ==
After her liberation from the Lich King, Tesla entered a period of wandering. She went back and forth between days of ruthless anger which she directed at Scourge and Human alike. When these periods would pass, she would fall into a depressed state that would drive her into solitude. It was not until she returned to the lands near the place of her birth that she would see more of her own kind. Some part of her knew there were more like her. There was something like a voice whispering over her shoulder, driving her away from the Plaguelands and into the dusty streets of Brill. It was there that she first met [Alexander Draconis] and heard his dreams of an army in service to the Dark Lady. This was the first time Tesla heard of anything of the numbers of those freed from the Lich King. Alexander was also the first to use the term "Forsaken" in reference to Tesla. She took to the term wholeheartedly.
In the ranks of the Vanguard Tesla met her dearest friends: the enigmatic and troubled [Noelle Chaplain] and the warrior, [Roshanar].
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