Baradin Whitecliff

Baradin Whitecliff (born 7 BDP) is a skilled battlemage of Stormwind and an eminent speaker for the Stormwind Circle of Magi and the Mage’s Guild of Southshore. A veteran of the Third War, Baradin draws royal blood from the eastern meadows of Elwynn, and has been active in combating the many threats imperiling the southern realms of Stormwind, both foreign and domestic.
==Physical Description==
Baradin is tall and lanky with a figure not yet bent by time; undoubtedly advanced by the stressors of the Arcane, but hale nonetheless. From atop his crown a messy display of flaxen hair hangs liberally, drooping down to rest at his shoulders with ease; however, his chin is bare of any beard or mustache, and whether that be by purpose or inability is untold. His nose is notably crooked, having been broken numerous times in the past due to abortive teleportation spells, and his brows appear slightly faded, as if some nascent mage’s uncalculated spell had singed them away.
The evoker often adopts a scholarly ensemble, donning long flowing robes of crimson and purple hues while his gnomish specs sit before calm bright blue eyes. Within his spindly grasp one might notice an arcane tome or historical recount; perhaps even his customary stave, a long enchanted shaft burnished by a bright rose crystal at its apex.
== History ==
Born to the green hillocks of Hillsbrad, our mage was of affluent stock; parentage who, among a great deal other things, owned wide tracts of land in Southern Lordaeron and Stormwind. It was their observation that their newborns’ deeply blue eyes were but a reflection of the Baradin Bay’s clear waters. And from this semblance the child was given his name: Baradin.
Little else is known of Baradin’s youth other than his advanced curiosity in the arcane. Often visited by the Court-Conjuror of Southshore, the child showed increasing determination for scholarly pursuits, and such determination was only sustained by the persistent support of Baron Whitecliff. In spite of these attempts, Baradin’s education would be delayed for the time being. The ancestral home of the Whitecliff lineage in Stormwind was reduced to ashes by the marauding Orcish warbands under Doomhammer, and thereupon a great deal of the family’s wealth was plundered and their heirlooms destroyed.
Despite the hardships wrought by the conclusion of the First War, it was the arrival of the Second that drove Baradin away from Southshore and his studies, and into hiding within Dalaran. Although advantageous at perhaps any other time for his arcane education, the onset of the Second War and the invasion into Lordaeron by the Horde excised all chances for the young Baradin to begin any particularly formal lessons.
WIP.
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