Rhelonia Astarte

> *"Quel'Thalas does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf."*
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## About

There are many words one can use to describe Lady Rhelonia Astarte, none of which are even remotely kind.

So instead, here is a list of all her established titles:

> *Sunfury war criminal*
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> *Magistrix of Quel'Danas*
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> *Archmage of the Order of the Red Cormorant*
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> *Lady of House Astarte, an ancient household renowned for its dragonhawks*
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> *Eclipsion Group-Captain*
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> *Victorious coalition leader against the Selama'Serrar in Outland*
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> *Scryer of Shattrath, Hero of the Eclipse War*
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## History

Since her inherited control of House Astarte, Rhelonia has gone to great lengths to keep the nose of the Thalassian governing bodies out of her less-than-legal enterprise.

Her house name is ancient, her influence spans across all known Azerothian continents (and even some Draenor dwellings), yet her grasp on the future has never been so precarious. Since the beginning, as the heiress of the great house of Rhelor Astarte, whose name dates back to the Highborne court of Queen Azshara, Rhelonia has been raised to identify and take advantage of what would be her many privileges.

Given the small circle of absurdly wealthy elves, Rhelonia's early childhood was marked by fateful encounters with an extremely limited number of other heirs in similar situations, who rivaled her house and wealth. Growing up around The Nine families did the young sorceress no favours, and today the *Lady Astarte* is as much a product of her environment as any other Blood Elf - save for the obnoxious amounts of resources poured into her upbringing and arcane education.

Despite her daliances in the early centuries, she would eventually marry Valkor Veridis, the lined up future paterfamilias of his house. To the ancient bloodlines she mingled with, marriages existed to serve a single purpose: political capital, as a strategic alliance made to ensure the continuity of both houses. Love played no part in the ecuation, and so neither had to pretend and consequently displayed none. Nevertheless, the years began to pass and the talented sorceress proved to be unable to fulfill her duty to the two lineages.

## The Great Wars

And how great they were.

   House Astarte benefitted immensely in the aftermath of the Troll Wars, a pattern it sought to replicate with the First and Second Great Wars fought against the invading Horde. Such material success came at a dire cost, however, as during the Second War the great Rhelor Astarte, the Dragonhawk, met his end. Consequently, Rhelonia became the Lady of House Astarte and sole survivor of her family branch. Divorced and seemingly unable to conceive, the future of House Astarte did not look so bright.

Embittered by life and fate, the accomplished Archmage sought to accelerate her accural of fortunes and once she had resurfaced in the public eye, she began to steer her household on to an even darker path.

## Scryer & Sunfury

Rhelonia's purpose in the Eclipse War of Terokkar Forest was to bridge the gap between two sworn enemy factions. Through her name everything became possible, and it was her strategic choice to summon Irillien Bladesworn and Eidanar Sunreach to fight her war - in Shattrath, under Fyalenn's command - as unlikely as that may sound. The gamble paid off, however, and while the former had to endure the war's aftermath in the guise of a trial for alleged war crimes, the convened display was little more than a hectic formality for all the parties involved to trudge through.

With his name cleared, Irillien's legend of The Falcon only grew, Eidanar returned to the Magister's Terrace with his house name renewed, and Rhelonia's uninfringed access to the Draenei catacombs under Auchindoun yielded the same artifact of undeath Silvarisyn had been hunting for in Northrend, years prior.

In the process of ending a decade-long search for her Order of the Red Cormorant, Rhelonia had simultaneously made two new powerful connections (one of which she had aligned to her purposes under contract), helped ease tensions between former Sunfury veterans and resident Scryers, and also won the war for Shattrath and the Naaru. Despite the impressive strategic feats from a self-proclaimed amateur in matters of war, Rhelonia's incongruous and suspect behaviour garnered no attention -- instead, her unilaterally taken drastic actions throughout the course of the war had earned her exile from the City of Light, and the severance of her working relation with Magistrix Fyalenn.