Kruga

Kruga is an orc rogue. She keeps no solid identity, making her very difficult to recognise unless she wishes to be recognised.
==Name==
Kruga Otterbiter.
She avoids giving her surname where possible. She does not like having to tell the story behind it, let alone explaining what an otter is.
She goes by many pseudonyms - practically a new one for every meeting, if she even gives a name. The name Kruga tends not to be associated with her face by many.
===Notable Pseudonyms===
None of these pseudonyms are in-character knowledge to any person except Kruga unless explicitly stated.
* Wick, the name she goes by when dealing with Oshu Kazil. This is the only pseudonym she uses which is obviously a pseudonym. A quiet trickster with strong opinions and a dirisive manner.
* Gretala, an old Warsong orc with a commanding presence who regularly visits Stonebreaker Hold.
* Kaltaka, a curious and naïve young Frostwolf seeing the world for the first time.
* Asaka, a young petty thief who has been caught several times in the Drag.
* Gakellu, a very old and forgetful woman with dark skin like a Blackrock.
==Physical Traits==
Nondescript - the type of face you forget, if you even notice it to begin with. Some wrinkles, deep-set on the forehead - older than most, but not yet an elder, and frowns a lot. Dark purple eyes. Quite a few scars in various places, although they are all old.
Everything else changes from meeting to meeting, and not just her clothes.
She has holes for piercings in seven places, and mixes and matches which piercings are in which holes at which times. Even those piercings are entirely non-distinctive - occasionally, she buys a distinctive one and wears it for an outing, only to sell it on again as soon as she is done with the disguise.
Her hair changes styles, colours and lengths with the rising and setting of the sun - dyes, ruthless haircuts and a large number of methods by which to set the hair are utilised. It is naturally a whitish-grey, although this is rarely shown - such is a useful base colour for natural dyes, extracted from plants.
She even uses pigments, powders and other techniques to change which scars are visible at any given time. Occasionally she will fake a prominent scar, especially if enacting a theft or other criminal act. The number of times that such fake scars have appeared on a description for a perpetrator, and saved her skin by virtue of her not having them, are too great for her to count.
==Race and Class==
Orc Rogue.
==Guild==
Oshu Kazil. Although she is not formally affiliated with them and she holds no paper membership, Wick will occasionally don their tabard. She will take requests for information from the members.
==Occupation==
Undisclosed. She presumably gets her money from somewhere other than petty theft, but this has neither been verified or falsified. At the same time, the amounts of money to her name are not large.
==Family==
Her parents died fighting ogres. A gronn unexpectedly entered the combat; they were two of four fatalities, the hunting group numbering ten in total (none of whom escaped totally unscathed).
Ursala is her daughter, although this is far from common knowledge. Although the two of them were never formally united, her mating partner was the only son of Elder Gralg Stoneweaver.
==Background==
===Pre-WoW===
Kruga was born into the Shattered Hand clan. In the early years, she made fast friends with a young boy her own age who was due to become a shaman when he was older - they played and trained together, becoming almost inseperable. They knew each other well and relied on each other: they relied on each other when Kruga's parents were killed in an ogre hunt; they relied on each other when his sister was taken ill and died; they relied on each other when the boy's mentor was taken by age.
But they were around the age of 7 when the Horde was formed; by 8, they had been magically accelerated, as were all the orcs their age, to the physical age of 12. Kruga herself had blades cut into her fists, running parallel to her fingers and jutting out past the knuckles of her clenched fists. He was taught new magics - darker magics, harmful magics. His personality was twisted and changed beyond all recognition. Kruga couldn't relate to him any longer.
And thus when the Clan marched with the others to what would become Hellfire Citadel, Kruga began to ask her own mentors about disguises. Differing clothes. Pseudonyms. Makeup. Affecting new habits, accents, demeanours. And - horrified at what her friend had been twisted into - she ran from him, and from her Clan, into the Horde at large. She took many names, and many faces; she was just an orphan lusting for the fight as the rest of the Horde were at that time.
She grew up with the Horde. She grew up with the bloodlust singing in her veins and the felfire burning in her eyes. Whilst serving in a unit during the Second War, she met a young man about her own age - he was a martial warrior, from a small Clan; although, like her, he refused to state which Clan he was from. It didn't matter any more - they were one Horde. He reminded Kruga of her childhood friend, in personality. They formed a brutal relationship, one borne of lusts and violence; occasionally, Kruga was harsly reminded that this man wasn't the one she had grown to know and love as a child. Just little things - like the fact he put no stock whatsoever in the Spirits, citing his cowardly father and weakling sister as being the reasons for his disillusionment with the shamanistic beliefs. Kruga's old friend, although young, had been highly religious before the warlocks twisted his soul.
Kruga was eager to escape back into the Horde under cover of disguises and affects, but her plans were interrupted by the battling at Lordaeron.
Only a few weeks into interment, Kruga realised that she was pregnant. It did not surprise her, in a way - they had not made provisions to counter such things - but it hadn't occured to her that she would be in such dire circumstances if the possibility actually occured. When she began to show, the humans moved her - and the father - to a camp in the Arathi Highlands, designed for infirm orcs whose bodies were useless for manual labour (such as mining). It was full of old men and women, young children, babies, and their mothers.
For a long while, Kruga and her partner fell prey to the lethargy. The birth was the first thing that stirred their tempers, and rekindled the dysfunction in their relationship. The child was born runtish. Each blamed the other, and they ended up fighting, trading blows - the human guards broke it up and punished both harshly. They blunted the blades on Kruga's hands after that incident.
The second, and last, major argument occured nearly four years later, when the weak girl went missing one night. She was within the camp, yes - but neither parent was able to locate her until the human staff returned her, bruised and scolded. The father had apparently been hearing rumours about the nature of Kruga's motherhood - about the advice she had been giving the young and ironically-named Ursala. They had both agreed to try and have as little of a hand in the runt's upbringing as possible, in the hope the child would not become attached to them (as the humans would not let them drown it, as was traditional) - Kruga's breach of this agreement seemed to be a tipping point for the man.
Again, they came to blows. In the aftermath, the father was moved to a different camp, where his muscle could be put to better use now he was no longer required in the upbringing of the child; as for Kruga, the blades were finally removed from her hands. Her dexterity was crippled as a result - the surgery was unkind, and it ruined the tendons and nerves. She still finds herself unable to get a proper grip on any weapon more substantial than a dagger or a rapier.
Kruga did her best to keep the relationship between her and Ursala a secret; she intended to sever it as quickly as possible, once more running from her past. The quick turnover of their dormmates helped. She did not give the child a name to call her by, insisting she be referred to as "mother"; other orcs were never given a name, asked simply to refer to Kruga as "excuse-me" or "oi". That's not to say that Kruga didn't give the child some care - she taught Ursala to read and write, teaching her basic cryptography as well as continuing to impart wisdom. Wisdom that included the mistrust of authority figures - Kruga didn't want Ursala to repeat the mistakes she'd made by trusting Gul'dan and his warlocks simply because they were more powerful than she.
Once they were freed from internment, Kruga seized the opportunity - she was on a different boat to Kalimdor than her daughter, and the rest was history.
===WotLK===
Kruga only began her own training again several years after Orgrimmar's founding, planning to make the most of what mobility she had left in her aging state. She knew that she could not hope to become as good with her daggers as she once was; instead, she turned her attention to other similar avenues of expertise in which she could be trained.
Subtelty became the name of the game, although not quite in the literal sneaking-around-after-dark sense. Kruga found that she preferred to hide in plain sight - using to the full the advantage that not one person in the Horde would be able to match her aged face to her name. This way, she could look for information that interested her without realistic fear of repercussions - how can one call to question someone that one knows absolutely nothing about, especially if that someone is inoffensive enough not to raise one's ire? It is more likely that such a person would be forgotten; this is the way that Kruga prefers it.
With these means, and with the will to find what happened to her daughter after so many years, she found herself seeking the Dagger and Totem clan. She found them on the bank of the Southfury and watched. When the Chieftain spoke to her, she demonstrated to him what she was good for - recounting reasonably detailed sets of information for most of those present from just twenty minutes' listening. By the end of the conversation, the Chieftain had promised to consider her application.
Kruga took to trailing Ursala once more, and through her became familiar with several of the shaman's friends, including Ryzarhn and Gulgrim. It was, therefore, not difficult to ask after her when she disappeared out from the radar altogether. A blunt conversation with a crippled Ryzarhn yielded that Ursala had been kidnapped by Twilight cultists, but not much else. Fearing the worst for her offspring, Kruga began to endeavour to get more information on the girl's whereabouts and wellbeing. For this, she needed Ryzarhn's help - and for Ryzarhn's help, she needed a lemon.
With this token of bargaining in hand, she approached Ryzarhn once more. He appeared grateful for the fruit and told her what he knew. His leads brought her to speak with Gremkarc, who, probably due to not recognising her (a fact that Kruga is glad of) completely refused to detail anything to her; and Gulgrim, who was altogether more helpful, albiet not intentionally. Whilst far from friendly towards the strange old woman, he let slip the key details: that Ursala was alive, well, and under his care. She left him with the knowledge that she was Ursala's mother, as well as some hints on how to keep hidden. She did not, however, give him her name or any solid identifiers.
===Cataclysm - 2010===
With the splitting of Ryzarhn from Dagger and Totem and the formation of Oshu Kazil, Kruga was granted an effective choice as to where she wished to serve. Finding it to be more inkeeping with her preferences and irritated by the idea of needing to serve under a shaman Chieftain in the Daggers, Kruga chose to offer her services to Oshu Kazil.
She travelled to Terokkar to wait for the Elemental invasions to subside. Once they did, she returned to Azeroth to begin working with Oshu Kazil on something resembling full time. Whilst she isn't exactly orthodox in the way she serves them, she does rigorously test their security systems with regards to paperwork - much to Varktahl's annoyance.
She trailed Varktahl when he journeyed to the Blasted Lands, only revealing her presence to lend him rudimentary first aid when he shattered his arm during a fight against a demon. She slipped back into the shadows after that - turning back to Orgrimmar once he reached the Portal.
==Criminal Record==
Multiple charges of petty theft - however, no two are noted under the same pseudonym, and not one is noted by the name 'Kruga'. She's never been caught for anything else...
==Personal Notes==
Played by user:P3a, who also plays Kall and Ursala.
===Stories===
*What a Lemon is Worth
*Smoke and Mirrors
Category:Horde
Category:Orc
Category:Rogue
Category:Characters
Category:Female