Cin'dol

Cin'dol Saurid Primalist by Gabriel Ross

### Summary

Cin'dol, the Bard of Bones, as she is usually called, is a musical troll who loves to play music. Music can take many forms, but her favorite is the sound of bashing and breaking bones, whether they are inside someone, or bones she found.

## Appearance

Cin'dol appears different than she once did. Her devotion to Jani has resulted in a ritual where she released the inner saurid. Her hips are wider then before and her skin is now covered in a light amount of scales making her appear sparkly when in the right light. She also has a few tufts of saurid feathers coming out from her sides and back of her arms, they are green and purple in color. Her feet have changed to become more like talons. Cin'dol once was covered in freckles from the sun damage she endured on the Darkspear Isles from her abandonment. The old patches of dark blue freckles are now spots where thicker clusters of scales are. She has very fine scales on her face and hands.

## History

#### A Bard of Bone

Cin'dol was born on the Darkspear Isles into a small tribal encampment on the coast. Her body was disfigured and it made her a target for her fellow tribesmen. She grew up on the outskirts of the town to avoid the bullying she endured. Cin'dol was a young adult when murlocs started raiding the Isles. Cin'dol was out gathering fruits by the coast a couple of miles away when her village was finally hit. The village had very little defenses and quickly fell, everyone she knew died. The murlocs started swarming the island, Cin'dol spent most of her time hiding and running, only defending herself when trapped. Her makeshift weapons sounded good in her hands. Each broken murloc skull made her eyes light up with joy even more. She eventually found a small rocky cave off the coast that was abandoned to hide and survive in. It was there in the boredom of lone survival, that Cin'dol was filled with the desire for the addicting sound of the bones cracking and breaking. As it was in that rocky ocean cave, Cin'dol corrected her disfigurement by breaking her own bones and binding them to be right. She had to do this many times as her bones were disfigured. The sound of the bones filled her with purpose and joy and it made her feel good, really good. After around two years of living as a skin-damaged hermit on the rocky island, she started seeking out if there were boats sailing past. She managed to find a beached Goblin scavenger boat. The scavengers were deeper in the island, and instead of stealing the vessel Cin'dol searched and found the Goblins. They were surrounded and fending off a small swarm of Murlocs. Cin'dol in ragged clothes and using a bone as a weapon jumped into the fray and saved the Goblins. The Goblins noticed a good investment in Cin'dol as her ferocity in battle would be easy to exploit. Cin'dol, not understanding what debts were, left the port of Ratchet the moment she had arrived.

#### The Cartilage that Binds

She spent most of her time exploring the new land that she arrived on. A whole world of different things and peoples was all around her. Music became the dogma that she lived by, that music was always being played by everyone around her and that most people didn’t have an ear to hear the harm they could cause with the tunes they carried. She sought to spread only good music, which is music that would make the listener feel good. In her travels, she would try and play a song here or there for random passer-bys and sometimes she would sing too, as most of her songs were instrumentals. She found some of the members of the Horde were Darkspears too. She eventually met the Redwood Tribes and despite her protesting, a sandy Mojo-construct named Kaylla, convinced her that she should join the Tribes. She spent her first while trying her best to understand how and why the Horde brought people together like it did. It was only when she was a key figure at one of the Redwood Tribes Rites of Passage that she began to understand how all these various different people lived together all for one cause, it was because the music they played was good. Her desire to spread good music led her to military service in the Horde.

#### A Kree made of Bones

Cin’dol’s military tour was a lengthy and pain filled one. From front-lining to the boredom of sitting on a bench by one of the objectives in the Arathi Basin, Cin’dol never lost her smile. She was making music, and her music sounded fantastic. Near the end of her tour she became a Lt. General, and this promotion made her a more appealing target. Cin’dol didn’t understand her role as the rank that she was and would charge in on the front lines as much as she could. The strategists of the Alliance noticed this, and during one of the battles for the basin, Cin’dol was captured by the League of Arathor. It was there that she was tortured to give up on information. Her earrings were ripped from her ears and burned so as to not heal, leaving her ears disfigured. Her achilles tendon was cut on her left ankle, which made escape on her own unlikely. Cin’dol didn’t know much about Loa, as her time as an outcast in her village left her in the dark as to things Loa related. Kaylla had taught Cin’dol about the Loa of trash, named Jani. It was after that cut that Cin’dol cried out for Jani to come to her and give her the power to kill her captors. Jani sent a message to Kaylla, notifying her that her Lok’dim (lover) was still alive, and also where she was. Kaylla arrived at the camp where Cin’dol was kept, with a felhunter named Maggrom hiding a few steps behind her. The captor was a high elf mage who was caught off guard by the disguised Kaylla. He fell to the floor and Cin’dol hopped on him and broke his neck with a swift motion. Cin’dol hopped on one leg, using Kaylla as a crutch, out of the camp where she was held. For surviving imprisonment, the Defilers petitioned for Cin’dol to receive the rank of General and granted her a black armored war raptor. Her Tribe welcomed her back and over time, Cin’dol would recover from the intense wound and start playing music again.

#### Saurid Sphenoid

Cin’dol devoted herself more devoutly to Jani on her return. The Loa saved her life, led her to her companion Kaylla, and embodied ideals that Cin’dol saw as the good music. With Kaylla’s help, Cin’dol got a mark of Jani branded into her side to show devotion to the Saurid Loa. The Redwood Tribes had recently promoted her to the rank of Elder too, so Cin’dol led a Rites that brought all sorts of people to offer things to Jani. Cin’dol decided that she needed to do something more not yet feeling like her efforts were enough to repay the Saurid for saving her life. She wanted to show more devotion and wanted to help bring Jani more shinies. Under Jani’s guidance, Kaylla helped with a ritual that would help Cin’dol achieve her goals. On an altar of trash built on a ruined Shadra shrine, Cin’dol’s soul became a beasts. Her soul was changed into a saurid’s and she became a primalist. Feral and confused after the Ritual, Kaylla and Cin’dol lived in isolation as Cin’dol learned how to function in the Horde all over again before she returned as a changed troll.