Cassyla Westwater

*"I could not enjoy the taste of food for fear of poisoning, and I could not enjoy the company of lovers and friends because I feared they hid knives behind their smiles. In spite of the danger, I was happy. I knew myself and I understood the world around me. But now... Nothing is certain. Without who I was and what I did, I do not know myself."**―* Cassyla Westwater

## Cassyla Westwater

An artist's depiction of Cassyla Westwater in her Stray Embers heraldry.

### Aliases

'The Shade of Umhach Guim' 'The Lady of the Long Corridor'

### Affiliation

The Stray Embers - LeaderLady Opal Copperscheme - Steward and Bodyguard

## Appearances

### Debut

"Scurvy Dogs"

**Cassyla Weswater,** an unafflicted Gilnean female, is an assassin, espionist, infiltrator and hand-to-hand combat specialist currently serving as the leader of the Stray Embers organisation.

## Physical Description

Cassyla stands at 5'10" tall with a stocky build for a human with sloped shoulders and a broad set of hips and waist. Fine, crow-black hair adorns her head down to her neck in a layered lob with side fringe, often concealing one side of her face. Sharp, piercing eyes of warm amber complement her tanned, sun-kissed complexion and a smattering of dark freckles conflicted by various well-healed scars cut across her features and through an eyebrow. Her sharp and angled facial shape adds elegance to her almost cat-like gaze and a delicate, courtly smile that often rests on her features. Usually, an armoured hood conceals her face and head, adorned with several small spikes, curved horns and golden-bronze filigrees that often rest against a segmented and reinforced mask that hides Cassyla's features entirely save for giving a deep golden glow to her eyes through the mask's passive enchantments. Much of her armour follows a similar aesthetic and colour scheme with ambers, golds, dark blues and blacks, talon-wrought metal plating, thick leather and padded cloth wraps, straps and belts and a considerable number of darts, throwing knives and hand-to-hand blades, including a pair of runic daggers sheathed at the small of her back which passively ebb with dormant shadow magic.

## Personality

Cassyla, despite her commoner upbringing, carries a noble cadence to her voice and remains at all times well-enunciated and erudite, precise in her use of more elaborate wording and shirking from the use of slangs or shortenings of words. Her naming and titles are also distinct, often using 'darling', dear or other similar charms not in a display of affection but rather a likely imprint of her time in the Stormwind House of Nobles. Despite her charming linguistics and outspokenness in conversation, Cassyla seems to carry herself with an air of paranoia and keeps well to herself much of the time, disapproving firmly of physical contact, never seeming to relax even in the calmest social situations and always keeping at least one hand within reach of a weapon. Though slow in trusting and warming up towards people, Cassyla's loyalty is watertight once truly earned, and her care and consideration for those in her service, her responsibility or otherwise under her wing is not insignificant.