Ascantha

"The difference between me and other evil people is that I hold no delusions about what I do. I am what I am, and what I am is a violent, bloodthirsty, sadistic monster. I get my pleasure from torture, murder, mayhem, chaos, and destruction. Yes, I'm evil, but at least I'm honest enough to admit it to myself and those around me."
Name: Ascantha "Felgaze" Shadowflame
Race: Blood Elf
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Goldenmist Village
Class: Warlock
Guild: Concordia Chaos
Professions: Enchanting, Tailoring
Hobbies: Maiming, torture, destruction, spreading suffering, slaughter, murder, academic pursuits, embroidery.
Age: 58
Eye Color: Fel-green, sometimes with a tint of red (bloodthistle user)
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 128 lbs
Appearance: Tall and graceful looking, Ascantha has a beautiful, slightly narrow face with elegant cheekbones and very full and pouting lips. She has a very nice hourglass figure, and is always dressed in an elegant purple robe, and usually a purple fedora which is worn so that it hoods her eyes. She can usually be seen with a bloodthistle cigarette in her mouth and a wickedly curved and cruel looking scythe on her back. Her face seems to be perpetually twisted into a condescending smirk or a rather horrifying malicious grin.
Personality: Usually genial and easygoing, Ascantha seems to be uninterested in petty squabbles or insults against her, though she is quick to return fire with snide and sarcastic comments. She often makes comments that weak-hearted individuals might find slightly disturbing, for example, she fondly speaks of torturing and horribly slaughtering innocent individuals, or consuming the hearts of those she kills, or stealing the blood of children to strengthen her spells.
= Early Life =
Ascantha was born in Goldenmist Village just south of Eversong Woods to the magister Zandrian Sunbreaker and his wife Kalindara. Sadly, Kalindara died while giving birth, still Zandrian was never depressed or bitter about his wife's death. Indeed, his only regret was that his work as a magister left him unable to spend more time with his beloved little girl. Ascantha was happy during her childhood, but her father could tell that she was very lonely and worried that she would lead a broken life if she did not have a mother figure to watch after her. So he found a woman in Silvermoon, a lower noble who seemed sweet and caring enough, and married her and sent her to raise Ascantha.
The woman, Valatrix Haleshar was in reality only marrying Zandrian for his money, which she planned on procuring in any way possible. Just five years after marrying him, she killed him in his sleep and claimed control of his entire estate... or would have if Zandrian hadn't left it all to Ascantha. Unsatisfied with acting as Retainer, Valatrix orchestrated a plot wherein Ascantha was kidnapped by human bandits, and sold into slavery to an elven warlock known as Maglathos Shadowflame. Through his dark experiments and horrible acts of torture against living things, Maglathos eventually deadened Ascantha to the suffering of others, using her as a tool to measure the amount of fel corruption in living things.
= Warlock's Apprentice =
Ascantha stayed with Maglathos till the age of 25, at which point, having slowly mastered enough warlock magics to summon an imp, she killed her master, allowing Corruption and Curse of Agony to slowly sap him in his sleep, when he awoke she and her imp stabbed him to death. Free of his clutches, Ascantha took on his mantle and cast off her past life becoming the warlock Ascantha Shadowflame. For a time she studied, and mastered warlock magics on her own, by the age of thirty she had become a high ranking member of her cabal, though her youth often kept them from taking her seriously.
During this time she met a man named Illiathos Silversoul, who fell in love with her despite her faults. Just when Ascantha felt as though she could leave behind all the pain of her past and finally live a good life however, she discovered that Illiathos had had an affair with a priestess of the Holy Light. Crushed and infuriated, she killed them both and seemed to disappear into obscurity for thirty years, living on the outskirts of society and preying those who moved too far into the wilderness.
= The Third War =
Ascantha returned during the third war and aided the Alliance and Horde in their fight against the Burning Legion. Her role was small however, mostly relegated to, along with other warlocks, closing demonic portals that were opening in Azeroth, which she succeeded in doing. After this she returned to Silvermoon and worked with the Cabal there in order to help clear the city of demonic influence and cleanse the taint of the Plague from the surrounding lands. She was grudgingly accepted as a member of the Soulshatter cabal in Silvermoon, and slowly fought against overt demonic activities within it's walls. She remained in Silvermoon during the time that Kael'thas journeyed to Outland.
= The Grand Scheme =
Once Kael'thas had departed from Azeroth, Ascantha began formulating an elaborate scheme in which she would slowly take control of Silvermoon and eventually all of Azeroth. Seeing Sidney Evensong, a corrupt noble, as a tool to this effect, she requested his allegiance in exchange for power. He agreed on the condition that a runaway servant of his named Chiela Bandu be returned to him bound and naked like an animal. Ascantha remembered this girl during an encounter at Thunder Bluff and recalled her with some admiration, agreeing to this condition, half to see her scheme brought to fruition, and half as an excuse to see the girl naked and helpless.
Ascantha succeeded in capturing Chiela, but before she could turn her over to Evensong she was thwarted by a tauren named Kareth Cloudtotem. Infuriated by his interference, Ascantha began to hunt down and chase Chiela mercilessly, cutting her way through any Dreamwalker that stood in her path. At last, after killing Sidney's brother Edmonde Evensong, whom Chiela loved, she was finally stopped in her destructive rampage and killed by the paladins Wyat and Cataryna.
= Adrift in the Nether =
After months of spiralling through the nether as a spirit, Ascantha suddenly came to an epiphany and decided to try once again to rid herself of evil and darkness. Chiela, taking pity on the woman who was once her assailant, agreed to help her. However, Ascantha was betrayed when Chiela used fel magic to crush her soul into the form of a voidwalker and imprison her.
Suddenly abandoning hope for anything but evil, Ascantha decided that she was going to pull Chiela down into darkness with her. Taking advantage of Chiela's hidden desires, hatred, and anger, she slowly turned her against the Dreamwalkers , her former friends, and convincing her to use a fel demonic artifact known as the Heart of Lagash. Then, whispering dark promises and preying on Chiela's darkest innermost passions she convinced her to return her to her true form. The resurrection was botched however, and Ascantha was imprisoned in the form of an imp for a short while before the mistake could be undone.
Once her original body had been returned Ascantha was ready. At last free of her servitude and no longer having need of Chiela, Ascantha had the opportunity to kill her where she stood... but found that she was incapable. After a few moments of fierce internal conflict she came to the conclusion that somewhere along the way of capturing, casing, attacking, and pursuing Chiela she had slowly fallen in love with her, and after telling Chiela this and gauging her reaction she decided to accept it.
= Master and Apprentice =
Recently Ascantha has taken on an apprentice known as Syvale Lonache... she seems quite pleased with the idea of handing down her knowledge, though her opinion of her new apprentice is slightly beleaguered. Syvale's dementia wears on Ascantha's nerves, but she finds the girl to be a satisfactory servant and apprentice for the time being.
=== Hidden Hobby ===
Ascantha, despite her manic, bloodthirsty, sadistic nature, has a love of needlework and embroidery and is quite good at it (as a matter of fact, several nobles have purchased her work without even knowing who it belonged to). Fearing that knowledge of this love of a gentle and relaxing pastime would ruin her reputation, she keeps the knowledge to herself, telling only those she trusts.
= Love Lost, Love Gained =
After a certain rather crazed moment during which Ascantha felt Chiela was going to leave her, she lost hope in life, and pledged herself to the Lich King. After a while she realized this was both ill advised, and stupid, blew up the runeblade that had been given her, and decided to work as a necromancy tutor for the Forsaken which she does to this day. However, the damage was done and soon Chiela left Ascantha, falling in love with Achates instead. Though initially furious at her betrayal, Ascantha's love for Chiela prevented her from taking any drastic action.
A week later, she went to the Curse Hallow's End Ball accompanied by Reyne Remington, had a blast, kissed her, and they decided to see where it would go from there. Sadly, shortly following this she went on a genocidal rampage in outland, killing nearly four hundred demons and high ranking legion officers in the span of five days. She was captured some time later, had her eyes cut out, and suffered humiliating torture at the hands of a dreadlord and his felguards. She was saved by Reyne and Xandaria and has since completely changed her outlook.
Since the whole incident she seems more merciful and kind to others... though this is of course in comparison to how she acted before (that is to say she is not by any other stretch of the imagination suddenly a nice person now, at all). She even proposed to Reyne Remington and the two became married. She has also joined the Scryers in Outland, half for material rewards and half because Kael'thas has allied with demons, and being a scryer gives her excellent demon slaughtering opportunities.
Her humor and philosophies with regards to pain and loss are still somewhat unnerving (her official point of view is that as a warlock, you really can't really dislike suffering given that all your spells are designed to cause suffering in the first places), though she endeavors not to harm innocents and is far less likely to go on murderous crusades against townsfolk.
Category:Blood Elf
Category: Warlock
Category: Horde
Category: Character