Kocoum "Ruby" Runetotem

Name 	Kocoum Ruby Runetotem
Class 	Warden/Druid
Race 	Tauren
Faction 	Cenarion Circle
Occuptation	Dreamer
Location 	
The Emerald Dream
Status 	Dormant, Dreaming
Ruby Runetotem is a Druid of the Cenarion Circle. He spent the majority of his life in Nighthaven, Moonglade and trained to be a Druid later on in his life after living as a Warden. In times of war he led Cenarion war parties against enemies of nature and defended Nighthaven. Now the Druid has entered the Emerald Dream to rescue trapped dreamers and fight the Nightmare.
==Traits==
Ruby is curious and inquisitive about the world and spends much time exploring it. He researches much about the lands he visits but has been dubbed "the worlds worst researcher" by fellow Druids because of his ability to easily forget things, brought on by his smoking of the plant dreamfoil.
As he was a Warrior for many years, Ruby is more aggressive than the average Druid, though only to his enemies. He is more eager to do battle and thus is suitable and efficient in his role as a Cenarion Commander. Although the rank of Captain is somewhat of a military rank with many other Captains being Druids of the Claw, Ruby opts for the power of wisdom to fight with spell as a Moonkin.
Despite his tendancies towards battle, as a Druid of the Wild Ruby is well versed in the art of healing and holds the ways of mending in high regard to restore not only the body but also the mind.
=Character History=
Kocoum Runetotem was born in Desolace. The Shu'Halo was given the nickname Ruby because of his red eyes. His family, being from the wastes of Desolace, had a hard life. Kocoum's parents decided to bestow a second name upon their children, the names of precious gems. It was their hope that it would bring them luck and make them a manifestation of fortune, by giving them second luck names it was as if the children themselves would become vessels of luck. The way they saw it instead of giving them luck charms they would make them into luck with their second names. His brother was called Topaz and his sister was called Amber. His brother and sister had blue and yellow eyes respectively, corresponding to their stone names. He never liked his nickname but it has stuck over the years. If he ever introduces himself he will usually say "I am Kocoum but everyone just calls me Ruby".
Ruby came from a very poor and small family who lived in the mountains and tended the Kodo graveyard.
One day a great oppertunity came for the young Ruby, the Runetotem tribe came to Desolace on business concerning the son of Cenarius within Maraudon. The leader of the expedition, an Arch Druid, saw Ruby and offered him a chance to travel north with them to re-learn the Druid ways which the Shu'halo had forgotten about. Seeing their son had a chance for a greater destiny Ruby's parents let him go with the party of Runetotems. Ruby's parents believed it was his second name that had brought upon this chance. The other siblings received moderate luck when Amber married a powerful Chieftain and Topaz safely travelled to Mulgore where he became a Bluffwatcher.
The Runetotems and Ruby travelled north to Stonetalon to find a raging civil war between the Blackcloud tribe and the Whitecloud tribe. The Whiteclouds, a well-established tribe of Stonetalon and allies of the Runetotem, were being pushed back by savage Blackclouds aided by Grimtotem. The Runetotems aided the Whiteclouds in their escape through the Talondeep Path into Ashenvale.
The troupe made their way to Moonglade, home of the Druids and the Cenarion Circle. Ruby was eager to learn the ways of the Druid but it was early times for Tauren being a part of the Cenarion Circle and the Kaldorei were reluctant to teach him. Many Tauren Druids took their turn in aiding the warrior-bred Ruby but the Tauren was clumsy in the art of Druidism and in some sway of fate he ended up becoming a Warden, a guard of Nighthaven. Despite not becoming a Druid, Ruby did become a Runetotem. 
Ruby made friends with many of the Whiteclouds who were the most prominent Moonglade Wardens along with some Night Elves and Stonehoof Tauren sent from the south. Ruby lived a peaceful and sheltered life in Moonglade and it is here he met Verdauga Whitecloud, a significant member of the Whitecloud tribe. Ruby and Verdauga were acquaintances for many years and by the time Ruby was around eighty-four (a matured Tauren who would be an elder in around six years) he was too old to begin training as a Druid. However with age working against him and no apparent heir, Verdure Whitecloud took on Ruby as his apprentice.
==From Warden to Druid==
After many visits from Verdure over many months, Ruby began the merge from Warden to Druid. Verdure taught Ruby all he could and the two spent much time in the great forests of northern Kalimdor connecting with the beasts and the stars. Ruby began to grasp the forms of the claw and eventually the Moonkin form.
Although Ruby trained to become a Druid of the Wild he did not want to leave his Warden past behind, a past he had lived his life by. The Wardens and the Druids of Nighthaven came to think of him as a Druid Warden, a guardian Druid bound to protecting a certain land. From his many years of living in Moonglade the Tauren has come to revere the Druidic elements of the Earthmother, like the moon, in highest regard.
==Emergence==
After becoming a Druid through being the secret apprentice of Verdure over the course of seventeen years, Ruby was accepted and acknowledged as a Druid by the Cenarion Circle. Ruby was among the Cenarion strike force led by Verdure that entered the citadel. The group was pushed back and Verdure wounded, and it was Ruby who helped take his master back to Nighthaven where he nursed Verdure in his final hours. After the death of his master he was sent back to Northrend to aid the Horde in the final battle against the Lich King at Icecrown Citadel. The Druid went only with the knowledge he had learned throughout the years and although he is eighty-four he is somewhat naive as he has spent all his life in Moonglade. Great tests and perils awaited Ruby and he trained at the Collisium to hone his skills before he even sets hoof anywhere near the Citadel.
Northrend is not the only place Ruby fights in, he aids the Cenarion Circle in Outland primarily helping heal the land and combat the minions of the Emerald Nightmare that dwell there.
==The fall of the Lich King==
The eve that the Lich King fell was like any other evening. Ruby had returned from Nighthaven to Dalaran when he heard talk about the monument in Runeweaver Square. He made his way to see it himself, and so it was he came to know of the fall of the Lich King. The Druid was overjoyed, he felt a great weight lifted. He had no doubt that the people of Azeroth would prevail though, after seeing the strength and numbers of many fighters and orders. He called his new friend Maugrim to the monument and there they both basked in its glory and what it respresentented. Quietly they contemplated those who had died to make this monument, this resolution possible. Ultimately though the pair acknowledged that the war was not over, and there was plenty of out of control undead to slay. Ruby relished "cleaning up" what was left of the undead Scourge with Maugrim. And so a new chapter began.
Five days after the Lich King's fall, Ruby hosted the Feast of celebration.
Ruby continued to work for the Cenarion Circle in Northrend as a Cenarion War Commander, healing the land and clearing it of Scourge so that the world may never come under threat of them again. Ruby took up smoking Dreamfoil to calm his scarred mind after seeing the horrors of Northrend.
After several months passed of a leaderless Scourge it was clear that noone was commanding the undead and they became subdued by the forces from Dalaran. Northrend was under control of the mortal races. Ruby returned to Nighthaven and took up his Warden position again, seldom using his Druid powers as if he had never learned them and used them with such skill.
==Farewell to Azeroth==
Ruby enjoyed the days of peace following the fall of the Lich King, but he was restless. He had been given a taste of battle and of war and was not satisfied anymore now he had returned to Nighthaven to guard over the sleepy town. He made the decision to enter the Emerald Dream. It is the duty of all Druids to enter the Emerald Dream in exchange for their powers, but the Dream had become dangerous in recent years with some dreamers not awakening from the dream realm. The Elders of Moonglade were not eager for Ruby to go, knowing the dangers he might face. They were quietly confident though that he could rescue some of the sleeping Druids and eventually saw to his departure. The Druid laid upon a bed of leaves in the Stormrage Barrow-Dens and went to sleep, entering the Dream realm without knowing when he would awaken.
=Friends=
Ruby is friendly with the following people
*Kragh Grimtotem
*Chanah Wolfsbane
*Sothrana
*Throk Markion Sourheart
*Katurk Pathseeker
*Maugrim
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