Gandrall Baleforth

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* Alanna Baleforth (Mother - Deceased)

Lord **Gandrall Baleforth** is a Stormwind nobleman who rules over the Barony of The Eastern Sanctuary. He is a mage-priest who specializes in transmutation and abjuration - specifically, the warping of space for applications of protecting those he cares for. (Though he could apply it offensively as well.)

Gandrall's main objective is to grow his lands on the eastern shores of the Blasted Lands - and warp the land around them to make a more hospitable environment for more citizens of the Alliance to live in.

## Personality & Beliefs

Gandrall Baleforth is a strong, independent sort. He values most of all the ability for people to rise beyond their beginnings. Having risen from nothing himself.

His religion reflects that of the local area - a belief in willpower itself as the greatest force that exists. Arcane magic is practiced with great gusto, using the residual energies put off by the Dark Portal as a source for experimentation - though there is also a temple dedicated to arcane magic within The Eastern Sanctuary which magic flows from without obvious cause. Gandrall and some of the founders of the Sanctuary built the temple themselves.

Gandrall is lawful neutral - but only so long as the law can be changed if it does not make sense any longer.

Gandrall's personality lends itself to trying to whatever he feels he most desires, within the limits of the law...

## Description

Gandrall looks youthful, but is nearly 60 years old. The secret to his youthful appearance is the magic he employs and surrounds himself with. His hair is a vibrant natural red, his face is soft and smooth, and he walks with vigor in each step.

## Biography

Born 577 K.C., Gandrall grew up under the tutelage of his father, Everth Baleforth, who was a not-so-renowned wizard within Stormwind. His mother, Alanna Baleforth, was a priestess of the Church of the Holy Light who kept a strict control of his day to day life. He grew irritated by the limitations that they imposed upon him. His father did not teach him enough, he said. His mother held him down with rules beyond that which the law dictated, guided by the Church. He was angry, and bored, and desired more - and so he moved to Lordaeron when he was 12. He would later regret running away from home, for only three years later the Orcish Horde ravaged the kingdom of Stormwind and killed his parents in the process.

By that time he had come under the instruction of another wizard who went only by the name 'Builder'. The Builder had a tower hidden away in Eastweald (later known as The Plaguelands), and would often send Gandrall on errands. In return for acquiring reagents, the Builder taught Gandrall much of Arcane Magic. Gandrall grew enthralled by this power - his father made it sound dull, but there was so much potential. He grew to revere magic and the amount of willpower it took to use such energies properly.

When the Third War hit in 610 K.C., Gandrall was devastated - for his own tutor was a Cultist of the Damned. The reagents he had supplied had helped the Builder to supply the Scourge with means of spreading the Plague of Undeath... Gandrall took this betrayal of country personally - for he always had a strong sense of loyalty to humanity, and to life itself. He played like he was ignorant of the Builder's true affiliations but began preparations for taking him down. He followed his tutor out to the middle of a field where a cauldron was to be established and watched as the mage grabbed a high elf from one of the other cultists and began dragging him towards where the cauldron was being set up. When the Builder took out a ritual dagger and prepared to slice the elf open, Gandrall sprung into action and cast a potent gravity-enhancing spell to pin his old mentor to the ground. He knew it wouldn't keep the mage for long - but it didn't need to. The moment the Builder was pinned, the elf took that ritual dagger and stabbed it harshly into the back of his skull... Gandrall blinked over to the elf while the cultists were in shock from the ambush, then teleported both of them back to his mentor's tower... He didn't have much time, Gandrall knew that the cultists would come to the tower. He immediately started activating defenses while he prepared a ritual to shrink the tower (and everything inside) down to something he could carry in a bag of holding.

Both he and the elf fought fiercely to keep those cultists at bay, and during a time when the cultists were regrouping, Gandrall commenced the ritual and both he and Avidar leapt out of the tower as it shrunk down. They packed the tower up and ran, leaving nothing behind. This led to some confused cultists when the next wave came, and though the cultists looked, Gandrall and the elf escaped south. Eventually, the elf introduced himself as Avidar - and stated that he was a spellblade who had been hunting the cultists, but had gotten in over his head. They'd grown too fast for him to control, the elf stated, and he was eternally grateful to Gandrall for saving his life. Avidar pledged himself to Gandrall's service, and the two have not been separated for long since then.

Both Gandrall and Avidar fought in the war in Outland and the war against the Lich King, though Gandrall was hurt in Icecrown. Though he had no physical deformities, it left him with a new urge to build something for himself. He knew that he'd loved to experiment with magic, and so he decided that it was time for him to build his own place to live where he could experiment all he liked. After the war against the Lich King, Gandrall and Avidar moved south to the Blasted Lands, where Gandrall founded The Eastern Sanctuary. He placed his old mentor's tower on the eastern side of the mountains near Nethergarde and - after so long, he finally grew it back to its old proportions. He began to gather others to his new town, mostly those in the military who wished for a little more freedom to explore magic. As Gandrall accumulated townspeople, he began to consider himself a Lord. He was going to build himself to be more than his father ever could be...

For a time, all was fine - until the Cataclysm occurred. Communication immediately ceased from The Eastern Sanctuary, and nobody was heard from or seen until very recently, when Gandrall walked through the gates of Stormwind - and though the town and its people had vanished when the Cataclysm occurred, it had reappeared, accounting for the changes in geography due to the Cataclysm's destruction. It seems that the whole town had been shrunk down and had simply taken that long to prepare the ritual to restore it to its original size in the new location.

## Titles

### Baron of The Eastern Sanctuary

Gandrall Baleforth is the Lord of the Barony of The Sanctuary, a town on the east coast of the Blasted Lands.
He was also a Knight-Lieutenant in the Stormwind Army.

## House

Gandrall is the head of House Baleforth, a new noble house. They are not renowned for anything, but wish to be known for their skill in magic.

## Relationships

Gandrall is a lifelong friend of Avidar, and knows few others as well as he. There are rumors of more there than friendship.

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