Chiela

==Childhood and Obsession==
Chiela (chee-AY-lah) was sold into servitude to House Evensong as a toddler by her own parents, neither of whom she remembers. When old enough, she worked in the kitchen and was more or less raised by the cook. During her early years, she learned much about cooking, herbs, and midwifery. An imp frequently visited her, but only appeared when nobody else was around. It was assumed that she simply had an imaginary friend. For most of her life she secretly obsessed over the younger of the Evensong brothers, Sidney, while living in fear of the elder, Edmonde. Lady Evensong, a highly feared person herself, had only the two surviving sons. The Evensong family has always been connected to dealings in the underworld such as the slave market and illicit drugs.
Chiela has always had an active imagination and was easily caught up in dreams of romance. She often would spy on the most gossiped about interracial couple in Silvermoon City at the time, old Wyat Silverleaf and his dark Shu'halo lover who simply went by the name Phoenix. Chiela began to believe that love was the most powerful emotion anyone could carry, and that with it anything was possible.
===Sidney Evensong===
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Earlier this year she was asked to deliver a meal to Sidney at the gate of the city. Sidney was known to spend much time away from the hectic life of the aristocracy and instead took comfort in the wilds; he promptly decided that he was tired of eating cold rations and took on Chiela as a personal servant so that he could in some way have the comforts of home. He was a harsh and demanding master, though this seemed to deepen the love she felt for him rather than diminish it. Chiela's imp visitor grew impatient with her and abandoned her for being too absorbed in Sidney's desires and lacking the ambition to become more powerful. Chiela is known for her self-depricating personality, and during a particularly harsh self belittlement, Sidney became frustrated with her and demanded that she stop acting stupid at times when she clearly was not. Chiela took the opportunity to profess her love for him.
What ensued could hardly be called a mutual relationship, though it seemed to suit both parties' needs at the time. Sidney plotted with Chiela to have his elder brother murdered while damaging his name, and simultaneously drugging his mother to make it appear as if she had gone mad due to the shock of this event. Thus Sidney would gain control of the House as well as the title proper; he told Chiela that she could be married to him and bear him the heir of House Evensong. Chiela, an inately good spirit, went along with this idea under the pretense of helping the people of Silvermoon City and its surrounding countryside in the long run.
==Without Sidney, With the Dreamwalkers==
Though infatuated with Sidney, Chiela's horizon was broadened with her first visit to Thunder Bluff. She spoke with a Shu'halo shaman, Kareth, and learned the basics of their culture. She spoke to Sidney of wanting to stay and learn more of the peaceful, interconnected ideals of the Shu'halo people. He insisted that the Sin'dorei ideals of self over nature and 'might makes right' were superior. Chiela became upset and refused to return to Silvermoon City; she remembered the power that Wyat and Phoenix held by peace and love alone and knew that the Shu'halo teachings of peace were correct. She soon joined Kareth and his druidic cult devoted to Ysera, the Dreamwalkers. She began to expand her knowledge; her abilities seemed most suited to those of a priest, and she learned quickly from both Trolls and the Forsaken. She gave herself a last name to recognize her independent status: Bandu, or "Peace" in Thalassian.
Sidney hired a powerful and sadistic warlock, Ascantha Shadowflame, to kidnap Chiela from the Dreamwalkers and return her to him naked and bound as an animal, to represent her dealings with the Shu'halo. His plans were foiled as Ascantha was driven away by more powerful members of the Dreamwalkers.
===Edmonde Evensong===
As months passed Chiela grew very close to the members of the Dreamwalkers, mimicking family ties that she had never really known, though another unforseen event stood to shake her ties to reality. Edmonde Evensong, the elder brother and heir, swept Chiela to Booty Bay and professed his secret love for her. He denied truth to the nasty rumors tied to him, claiming that he needed the cover of cruelty to prevent his brother from murdering him and to keep his mother's watchful eye away. Having never been the subject of secret pining, she fell into a deep infatuation with Edmonde and gave him the virginity that Sidney had been saving (assumedly for marriage). Edmonde tried to escape his family and meet Chiela in Thunder Bluff with the help of Wyat Silverleaf and Cataryna (who decried the evil deeds of the Blood Knights), but was murdered by Ascantha aboard a zeppelin bound for Orgrimmar. Chiela was devastated at first, but quickly got over the loss. She subsequently took on several lovers, notably Jagaimo and Fahn. She began to privately write poetry, and eventually began printing and distributing single works. She grew a small following amongst the large cities, mostly due to her metaphoric love poetry.
==Gaining Power==
Chiela joined the Dreamwalkers in the rescue of a captured member, Flit. She did much of the healing in the aftermath of the rescue as well as deliver the premature baby of Semile Highsilver in the chaos. This event served to give Chie a boost in her confidence of her own abilities, though it physically exhausted her.
Sidney grew irritated that Kareth had 'filled Chiela's head with nonsense' and in that way stolen her, and attacked him while the shaman was in wolf form. He kept him drugged with a needle collar so Kareth would remain as such. The Dreamwalkers, once posessed of this knowledge, planned a subversive attack on Sidney and killed him via decapitation. Chiela was still comatose in her recouperation, but when she learned of his death experienced a mental breakdown. In the following weeks the Dreamwalkers tried (unsuccessfully) to comfort her and sway her to abandon her obsessive love.
===The Seeds of Corruption===
She began continually swinging from her typical self-depricating personality to a new narcissism and selfishness that had surfaced during the changes to her beliefs. In an attempt to grant an ultimate good, she offered the remorseful spirit of Ascantha a resurrection for the purpose of reliving a life free of the painful events that twisted her into the warlock she had become. The Dreamwalkers did not agree with this and questioned how she could do good to a being who had hurt her so viciously. She believed that good will could beget good will, and that love could prevail over Ascantha's formerly evil intentions. Chiela had difficulty being cordial with the Dreamwalkers after this point.
Chiela's optimistic worldview was shattered when Wyat broke off his relationship with Phoenix in favor of Cataryna. She pulled Phoenix from her campsite in Stranglethorn Vale and sheltered her at her room in Thunder Bluff until she became mentally stable and self-supporting.
==Revenge==
Fahn, in a last ditch effort, led Chiela on an internal vision quest during which she saw herself as a spirit healer, a raven, and a shark. Upon reaching what she presumed was the center of her mind, she saw Sidney and her desire to be with him grew. Due to Chiela's connections with spirits, she discovered that Sidney was not, in fact, dead. It was at this time that she fully decided to act on her hedonistic thoughts and take revenge on Sidney for having used her love and given none in return.
In order to have greater power over Sidney, she pulled Ascantha's spirit from the Nether and forced it into the form of a voidwalker to serve as her personal minion. In this way Chiela turned her back upon good with a brutal finality.
===Voidwalker Ascantha===
Ascantha, as a minion, had no choice but to serve her mistress to the best of her abilities. She told Chiela of a powerful artifact: the heart of demon-lord Lagash held in the ruins of northern Tanaris. Voidwalker Ascantha convinced (with some manipulation) Chiela to tear out her own heart and replace it with that of the demon-lord. Upon feeling the drug-like surge of fel energy, Chiela became intoxicated with the desire for more power. Ascantha led her down the path of pleasure in destruction, though Chiela was to discover that feeling regret made her body begin to reject the fel heart and gave her great physical pain. In recognition of the shedding of her old self and the donning of the new, she pronounced herself Chiela Lagasha, after the fel heart.
Chiela began to seek destruction willingly, to feed the fel heart and intensify her pleasure. Ascantha, through eloquently arousing suggestions, convinced Chiela to resurrect her properly. Chiela failed on the first attempt, sealing Ascantha in the form of an imp, but upon creating a more powerful reagent (Tears of the Faultless) she was successful in bringing Ascantha back to her original form.
====Love Again====
It was at this time Ascantha came to realize that she was in love with Chiela and told her so. Chiela was in denial at first, but the more she spoke with Ascantha on the philosophy and potential of life, she too realized that they had much more in common than either had previously known. Chiela for the first time sat down and reasoned that her obsession and former relationship with Sidney was unsatisfactory. With Ascantha's company, she found that she did not specifically need Sidney, but needed instead the pretense of domination and submission as a viable substitute.
==Freebird==
After having settled into Silvermoon City with Ascantha, Chiela began a shaky friendship with an extremely shy warlock, Achates Phoenixdown. Though already in a seemingly perfect relationship with Ascantha, Chiela could not help but look at Achates in a romantic light. For the most part she has tried to hide this in fear that Achates would sever the friendship should he discover how deep her feelings for him ran. She saw his obsession with Lady Lianthe Sunscion as a mirror of her own relationship to Sidney, and even confronted Lady Lianthe herself about it.
Chiela eventually lost the ability to push down her feelings for Achates, and after a night of drinking told Ascantha her secret. Ascantha was shattered by the news and took it upon herself to undo the evils she had done. Chiela, having been told by Ascantha in the heated fight that she needed to make up her mind about what she wanted, realized why she had fallen in love with Achates. She was comfortable in his presence, more so than with any other previous friends or lovers. She decided that she could be satisfied with friendship alone.
Much to her surprise, during the insanity that was Curse's Hallow's Eve Party Achates let it be known to Chiela that he loved her. She returned his feelings joyously. She was relieved of the guilt of leaving Ascantha as she had fallen in love with Reyne the very same night.
==House Sunfury==
In an effort to be closer to Achates, Chiela braved an intensive interview and was accepted into the House Sunfury. She had not come to the interview with a prepared statement, but upon being questioned of her assets to the House she realized that she yearned to change the world for the better; House Sunfury, with its battle-wizened guard, would allow her to work with some of the best fighters of the Horde.
==Death of Chiela Lagasha==
She now realized with surety that she could not keep the felheart beating in her chest and know that Achates would be safe near her. She traveled to Tanaris to recover her own heart, now dried from the desert heat and salty sands. The only solution that came to her mind was to take her shriveled heart to the Apothecaries of the Undercity and hope that they could revive it to be transplanted back into her body.
(to be updated as RP continues)
==External links==
* Player's Deviant Art Gallery
* Player's Photobucket
* Music Video with a Chiela Lookalike.
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