Jaime Sootleaf

* Art (Pre-Voidforging)
* Art (Post-Voidforging)
* In-Game Look

Gilnean Ploughmen's Guild (formerly)

Harvest-witch, farmer (formerly professionally, nowadays as a mere hobby)

### Parents

Arthur Sootleaf † (-24 L.C.- 30 L.C.)Gwendolyn Sootleaf (née Fairblade) † (-18 L.C.- 30 L.C.)

### Relatives

Nathaniel Clayden (-35 L.C. - ) (uncle)

Jaime Sootleaf (14 L.C. - ) is a Gilnean-born part-elf paladin (formerly druid), the son of Arthur and Gwendolyn Sootleaf, husband of Eseridormi, and nephew of Ilyana Clayden.

## Early life

Coming from a long line of harvest-witches and farmers, Jaime inherited the power of controlling nature, and learnt farming from his father. He used his powers to help his family with crops and vegetables.

At one point in time, he met, fell in love with, and got engaged with Eseridormi.

Jaime frequently hung out with Eseridormi, her twin brother Mattedormu, his next-door neighbour Elliot Withers and the Blake siblings as a child. They would sometimes sneak out of the city-state through emergency tunnels to see the Darkmoon Faire or just get in trouble in general.

## Cataclysm

When Deathwing's madness ravaged the land of Azeroth, and the worgen invaded Gilneas, Jaime and Eseridormi were almost killed at Light's Dawn Cathedral by worgen, but were saved by Claudius Ravenheart.

They missed the ship to Teldrassil due to Jaime suffering a head injury from flying debris while escaping the city and Eseridormi staying behind to nurse his wounds.

The couple had to escape the ruined kingdom on their own.

They were later found by Nathaniel Clayden, who took care of them for a while in Sanctuary, after which they were taken in by Luciel Ambrose, who thanked the elderly paladin for all he did for his daughter and her significant other, then took them under his wings, teaching them himself for two years. Following Luciel's advice, the two then sailed to Pandaria on their own.

## Mists of Pandaria

Nathaniel Clayden stepped down from representing the Last Heroes of Lordaeron in the Pandaria campaign, deeming himself too old and too peaceful to lead a war effort, passing the mantle onto Jaime, who himself was dealing with his own demons at the time. He doubted himself and his abilities to be a worthy successor to Nathaniel, and felt his ties to nature weakening.

Eseridormi and him sought the council of the August Celestials, and while Chi-Ji and Yu'lon helped Eseridormi fight a manifestation of her fear of losing control and her powers consuming her, Niuzao and Xuen helped Jaime find confidence and his path. Jaime decided to start his paladin training under Nathaniel.

After the civil war that fractured the guild Last Heroes of Lordaeron, Jaime and Eseridormi assembled the people who stayed loyal to Nathaniel and founded the Vanguard, which led the charge during the siege of Orgrimmar.

At Eseridormi's behest, he subjected himself to her voidforging, becoming her second - and first successful - attempt at the procedure.

After the siege of Orgrimmar, the Vanguard became obsolete, After the disestablishment, the surviving members founded the Underdogs, which is led by Jaime and Eseridormi.

The couple later settled near Halfhill, on a farm of their own.

## Aliases

* Lithlassë Firecrest - A sin'dorei alias and disguise given to Jaime by Elessar Silvergleam with his dying breath. Elessar anointed Jaime as the new leader of the Liberation Front and gifted him with a magical orb capable of granting the user the ability to take on the appearance of a blood elf.

### Alternate timelines

* "Spitalfield", a code-name Jaime took up after faking his death and living as rogues with Eseridormi (Timeline 5151616, dubbed the Vengeance Timeline or the Apocalypse Timeline).

## Personality

Kind, friendly and understanding, if a bit hotheaded for a paladin, Jaime is always the first to attempt to strike up a conversation. He is usually very energetic and bouncy, but can also be laid-back and collected when he needs to be. He has a rather dark side to his humour, often making morbid or grotesque jokes, a habit he shares with Sethendris Trueshot.

He carried with him a strong sense of doubt due to him not feeling like he can live up to his family's expectations of being a farmer - and by extension, a druid - and always yearned for adventure and wished to be a knight like Orion was. The Gilnean clergy even remarked that from childhood, he exhibited paladin-like properties, resembling his uncle more than he did his father.

## Trivia

* Jaime bears a striking resemblance to his ancestral relative, Orion.
* He is utterly terrified of snakes.
* He enjoys peppermint tea, but doesn't reject alcohol either, claiming - falsely and jokingly - to have partial dwarven ancestry.

## Gallery

Jaime owns several suits of armour. His most recent one, the "Cleansing Fire" armour, was the result of a joint project by Nathaniel and Valeriy Chernozyom, and comes equipped with a number of features, including a cape that unfolds into a glider, speed boosters and other technological wonders.