Regina Johann

Regina Johann is a former Matriarch-In-Training from the village of Runewold, located in the northern mountains of the Arathi Highlands. As a clairvoyant, she was tasked by the spirits of her ancestors to seek out and stop a Great Evil that will one day threaten Azeroth, abandoning her village in the process. During her travels, she came under the training of an elderly Pandaren from the Wandering Isle. Now balancing her duties as a Shaman with her training as a Monk, she travels Azeroth hunting this mysterious Evil to prevent the End of Azeroth.

## Regina Johann

### Relatives

Arald Johann (Father), Marianna Johann (Mother), Mother Jophina (Shamanism Mentor), Bosan Chimesong (Monk Mentor), Priscilla Rundotter (Childhood Best Friend)

## Description

Standing at 4'10", Regina is an exceptionally short young human woman with lightly tanned skin, fiery red hair, and brilliant seafoam eyes. Her hands are rougher than your average woman's, due to the hearty, active lifestyle of Runewold Villagers. While most of her Village is made up of tall, dark haired men and women, her small form and red hair are considered signs of spiritual potential.

Regina has an athletic, toned body type from her intense training under the watchful eye of Bosan Chimesong, her Pandaren Monk Trainer. This strong form hides under her naturally soft and curvaceous body due to her strong feminine features. Notably, Regina has exceptionally thick and powerful legs, serving as her main form of martial combat due to the raw power behind her kicks.

Due to the culture of Runewold Village, Regina can often be seen donning runic paints on her face and body as part of her spiritual practices. Her outfits often combine a mix of traditional Runewold styles with the elegant and beautiful designs of the Pandaren as taught to her by her master. Notably, her outfits often hide little skin, which is often interpreted as 'lewd' or 'inappropriate' by prude members of society.

## Personality

Regina is a bright and positive young woman who tries her best to maintain a cheerful disposition in life. She tries to see the best in others and will always give people the benefit of the doubt, and trust, until proven otherwise. Her trustworthy nature can often get her into questionable situations.

When it comes to her allies and the innocent, Regina is fiercely protective of others. She'll go out of her way and risk harm to herself if it ensures others will be saved from pain and death. She sees herself as a guardian of not just her Village, but humanity itself. Regina fiercely respects the elements, able to feel and see their spirits in the world. Destruction or corruption of the elements will often pain her personally.

## Background

### Early Childhood

The story begins at Regina's birth. Born into the Johann family, it was apparent from the start that Regina was different. While her parents and siblings shared tanned skin, black hair, and brown eyes, Regina was born with pale skin, red hair, and seafoam green eyes. These traits are held by those with Spiritual Potential in the village of Runewold. As such, Regina was claimed by the Matriarch of the village at a very young age.

Though she was raised by her parents, Arald and Marianna, Regina's childhood was spent learning from Mother Jophina, the current Matriarch of the village. Through Jophina, Regina began training in the Old Ways, an ancient form of Shamanism practiced by the people of the Arathi Highlands long ago. Much like Harvest Witches, the practices have fallen to the wayside in most larger populations, leaving the rituals and methods a mystery to most other humans.

### Spiritual Awakening

As Regina grew into adolescence, she began to see things others did not. While at first her family feared for her sanity, Mother Jophina assured them this was natural. Matriarchs of Runewold commonly developed a form of clairvoyance, and Regina would be no different. Each Clairvoyance was unique to its user. While Mother Jophina's allowed her to see into the souls of the living, Regina's gave her the ability to see spirits of the dead as well as the spirits of the elements around her.

    With her power awakening, Regina began her deeper practices into Shamanism, communing with the elements to praise and respect them, in turn earning their respect through trials and quests that they would send her on. The training was harsh, intense. Elementals are not mortal, and they understand little of human limitations. It was a struggle for the young woman to earn her place in their eyes, but she persevered over the years, one by one earning the right to wield each element. First, the winds of the Highlands answered her call. Next came water, as she prayed while soaked in the river near her homestead. Earth answered her calls as she fasted in caves, but fire... Struggled.

Perhaps it was due to her personality? Maybe she secretly feared that she would be burned. Regina couldn't be sure, but the trial of flame came quickly and harshly one night as she awoke to smoke within her home. Someone had left the fire smoldering. Her mother perhaps? Maybe father? It mattered not as the flames roared in the den of her family home. Though she choked on the heavy black smoke, though every fiber in her body told her to simply flee the house with her parents, Regina forced herself forward into the raging flames of the room, trying to call to the flames to ask them for mercy. They answered, leaving Regina to wonder if her family truly had been the cause of the fire, or if the element had simply decided to test her tenacity. Regardless, her parents were... Less than pleased at the damage.

With the four base elements connected to her, Regina found the final element to be... The easiest. Sitting deep within the forest surrounding her home, in a small glade of flowers with a gentle creek burbling nearby, the Wilds answered Regina's call. Unlike the others, there was no bargaining, no deep rituals or pleading. Not even a test. The wilds answered Regina, ensuring her that they would protect her and her people. entrusting that she would protect life on Azeroth. Regina swore this to the Wilds, with little question.

### Seeking Dangers

With connections to the five elements, Regina was now considered ready to properly become the apprentice of the Matriarch. Not a student, nor a trainee, but one who would serve her people alongside Mother Jophina, and one day take her place when the time came. Shamanism was only the first step toward this role. Wisdom, intelligence, charisma; these things did not simply exist in someone. They needed to be nurtured, groomed, ingrained into their very being. This was what Mother Jophina told Regina every morning.

But this apprenticeship would not last long. While meditating in Runewold's Graveyard, it happened. The spirits awoke. Ancestors of old, rising from their graves. They came quickly. They came in masses. All to warn her.

*"The Great Evil stirs. Quickly. You must find it, quickly, and stop it."*

Quickly. They chanted. Stop it. They cried. But what? What was this Great Evil? Regina received no answers, only an overwhelming chorus of cries and screams as the spirits of her people descended upon her. She awoke hours later, wrapped in blankets by a fire, with Mother Josephina standing nearby. She'd heard Regina's cries in her sleep, and saddened, knew that the young woman's destiny called her elsewhere. Their people would not understand, but Josephina did. Offering Regina supplies and food, she hurried the girl out of the village in the dead of night, wishing her luck in her search.

Regina was scared, confused, but... She trusted her Matriarch. If the ancestors had chosen her to face this Great Evil, it was her responsibility to answer. Though she wished for nothing more than to deny this quest, to stay with her family, her mentor, she knew better. But... Her elemental abilities were so weak still, and she knew little of the outside world. What was she supposed to do? How was she supposed to do anything? She didn't know. And her greatest fear flooded her mind. What if she couldn't save her people? Even fearing this, she took her first steps from Runewold, leaving her village to seek answers.

### Discovering Inner Peace

The answers she would seek, however, were not the ones she would receive. This was a strange world, and her accent was heavy, foreign even, to many as she moved from town to town seeking answers. But no answers came to her, of course. Everyone was focused on the war to the North. Was that the Great Evil? But how could she even get to this Northrend, to face this Lich King? Stormwind Harbor? Where was that? Each answer from men and women in various towns only left her with more questions. She was lost, alone.

But not as lost as... The strange furry man she discovered on the side of the road one day. Interrupting the Pandaren's meditations, she inquired if he was alright. This was how she met Bosan, an elderly Pandaren Man who explained that he had recently crash landed in this forest on his hot air balloon. He explained to Regina that he came from a far off island, deciding in his old age to seek fulfillment in discovering what this world had to offer outside of his little island home. Admittedly, he was lost, and was seeking guidance through meditation. Regina offered to take him to the nearest town, to which the man politely accepted her offer.

During their travel to this town, however, Bosan slowly picked away at Regina, asking her questions about her own travels, and what she was seeking. Though Regina tried her best to put on a brave face, assuring that she was following the guidance of her ancestors, Bosan was... Not convinced of her confidence. He knew that lonely aura. He'd suffered it himself in his youth. The lost look in her eyes, and the doubt that clung to her. As they reached the town Regina described, Bosan... Refused to part with her.

*"You are lost, but perhaps I can help set you on the path you need, not the one you seek."*

Regina wasn't exactly given a choice. And so she earned yet another mentor in her life, and a traveling companion to talk with during her travels. Together, Regina and Bosan wandered from the Eastern Kingdoms all the way to Kalimdor, exploring the world and helping others in their search for answers about this Great Evil. Though they failed to find much on the Great Evil, Regina discovered much about herself and Bosan, learning the ways of the Monk from him. When the news of the Lich King's defeat came, Regina nearly faltered, assuming perhaps the Great Evil had been defeated, and she could go home... But she knew better than that. The Lich King wasn't the one her ancestors were warning her about. The two continued their journey still, having formed a close bond in the months they traveled together.

### Moving Forward

But not all bonds may last forever. At least, not in their current forms. It was sudden. One day, a cough. The next, his legs were too weak to carry him, and Regina was forced to pull her master in a cart as they traveled. Leave him, he assured her. He'd be alright. But Regina wasn't that type of person, to abandon another. She made his dinners, cared for the old Pandaren as he grew weaker and weaker with each passing day. It pained her to see this man suffer, and she did what she could to keep him comfortable as she came to understand the inevitable was near.

She felt the change when he began to slip away. He knew it too. They were quiet in his final moments, Regina simply holding his large, yet somehow gaunt paw in her hands. *"I am honored that you were the one to discover this world with me."* Those were his final words as he closed his eyes, dying before Regina. Tears fell as she mourned her master, but as was tradition in her village, she prepared and performed his funerary rites, honoring his previously discussed request and being cremated, his ashes spread through the winds to continue his travels.

But this was only the end of their journey in this form... After all, Regina was a clairvoyant. One who saw spirits. Bosan stood next to her, his ethereal body shimmering as he watched his ashes scatter beside her. He would continue to teach her the ways of the Monk, he promised, until she was ready, and he could pass on. With his ghostly form at her side, Regina pulled herself together and prepared to continue her travels. Mind focused, but heart heavy, she stepped forth once more to continue her search... But little did she know, her target would reveal itself soon...

## Abilities

**Clairvoyance:** As a spiritually potent member of Runewold Village, Regna was born with a form of clairvoyance, which awoke in her early childhood. Clairvoyance is different for various members of Runewold.

* **Spirit Vision:** Regina is able to see ghosts and spirits of the dead, as well as the spirits of the elements around her. While the dead have physical forms, the spirits of the elements are more non-physical in her sight, more akin to spiritual auras in the environment around her.

**Elemental Control:** Regina is able to commune with the five different spirits of the elements and call upon their power to aid her in combat. Through rituals and honoring the spirits, they provide her with her elemental abilities.

* **Totems:** Regina is able to place small idols from her belt onto the ground. These idols will grow and spring to life, infusing with the element Regina calls forth. These totems have varying effects determined by the element within the totem as well as the request made by Regina

* **Elemental Calls:** Regina can control and evoke all four types of elements to attack and defend, as well as manipulate environmental factors.

* **Spiritual Healing:** Calling upon the spirits, Regina can evoke life energy to mend and cleanse her allies from their injuries.

**Martial Arts:** Regina is trained in unarmed physical combat. Her primary focus is kicking, but her punches and upper body strikes can still be formidable. Through Chi focus, Regina is able to achieve supernatural levels of physical prowess.

* **Chi Enhancement:** Regina is able to enhance her physical body through the process of Qi Gong. This allows her to improve her strength, speed, and natural defense.

* **Unarmed Combat:** Regina has been trained in the ways of the Jade Serpent, allowing her to fight enemies with hand-to-hand combat techniques. While able to utilize martial weapons, they aren't necessary for Regina to fight.

**Chi Manipulation:** Through the use of Chi, Regina is able to conjure and produce magical effects like a spellcaster.

* **Mistweaving:** Regina is able to manipulate mists, providing healing, protection, and crowd control.

* **Chi Combat:** Regina can produce bolts of energy or blasts of lightning through the manipulation of her Chi, sending it out as forms of energy through her combat.

## Home

While formerly living in her parent's home in Runewold, she was excommunicated from her village upon leaving, seen as abandoning her position as a Matriarch-In-Training regardless of her motives for the departure. Due to this, Regina lives a nomadic lifestyle. She camps when necessary, but will always rent a room at an inn or home if she can manage to find one before nightfall.

## Companions

Bosan Chimesong - *Although this elderly Pandaren man passed during his travels with Regina, his spirit remains by her side to act as a guide and mentor for her until she is ready to face the world without him. He does not appear visible to the naked eye, but those with spiritual vision or the ability to see the invisible are able to see him.*

## Quotes

As we have not yet started Chronicles, there has been no roleplay in which a comment of note has been stated. This section will be a list of quotes that provided heavy story beats, as well as a short description of their context.

## Notes and Trivia

* Regina's spirit animal is a raven.
* Her favorite food is fried rice.
* She has mild claustrophobia.