Talestra Bloodsinger

Lady Talestra Bloodsinger is a Ren'dorei mage, newly elevated to nobility, who rules over the Barony of Duskfury Isle. She currently holds the title of Baroness of Duskfury Isle, while maintaining employment as a privateer for the Netherlight Privateering Company.

## Personality & Beliefs

Talestra Bloodsinger, or Talle, as she prefers in a casual setting, is an empathetic soul; warm, friendly, and compassionate. She is one of those souls in whom people have always found it very easy to confide, and her life's previous arrangement has seen that she is excellent at keeping secrets. She's a very loyal person, and as a mage, she believes wholeheartedly in the power of magic - in fact, she often credits magic for her deliverance. She is a recovering alcoholic, often plagued by flashbacks from her life before she became Ren'dorei. "Ama noral'arkhana" is Thalassian and carries the translation, "Saved by Magic".

## Description

Talestra Bloodsinger is a young adult, as far as Elven life spans go. Her skin is a soft shade of lavender, blueish purple eyes, and long reddish purple hair. Although she is about the average height for females of her kind, she is built a bit on the petite side, lean in muscle. She has extensive scarring that does not appear to have come from battle. While many of these are faded, there are many more which appear much more recent. They resemble whip marks, flaying, burn marks, and bite marks. A number of these appear as though they had been left to heal on their own without medical attention. Others resemble stitches and sutures. The most visible examples of these are the scars that run down either side of her face, from hairline to jaw, and she often wears her hair down in an attempt to cover them. Were it not for all the scarring, she might be considered a very pretty woman.

## Biography

Talestra Bloodsinger was born in Silvermoon City, in Quel'thalas, to a family of servants. She's spent most of her life in servitude of some form or another. As Quel'dorei, she served and often entertained a number of noble houses of Silvermoon. As the sole surviving member of her family after the Scourge sacked Silvermoon, she sojourned with many other Sin'dorei to Outland to aid in finding a cure for her peoples' magical addiction. During this time, she was sold into slavery. Her owner was a cruel and devious man who had a penchant for knowledge and power, spending inordinate amounts of time in libraries. Talestra, in her capacity as his personal servant, always accompanied him. She disliked her owner and the barbarism with which he treated her, and secretly began studying the "forbidden" magics, plotting her escape. That escape did come in the form of Voren'thal the Seer, and she traveled with the group of defectors to Shattrath City (Outland) in Terokkar Forest. However, she feared that she might be made to serve the Shattered Sun Offensive as she had been made to serve her former owner, so she fled on her own again, back to Silvermoon City. She continued her studies of the "forbidden" magics with a band of "void cultists", who would later become the Ren'dorei. Their paths took different courses over the next years, as while these "void cultists" were exiled for their research, a very familiar face had stepped in, preventing Talestra from joining their immediate fate - her former owner. More years of brutal slavery passed, but Talestra had never given up on her studies. After recovering from a beating which left her near death, then bed-ridden for months, with stitches and sutures holding her together, she fled into the Ghostlands. Eventually, she found the exiled "void cultists", and although research was, of course, high on her list of priorities, higher was the drive to escape what seemed to be the long arm of her owner, and so she joined Magister Umbric's movement to tame the Void.

Being accepted into the Alliance, and into Stormwind City, by the good graces of His majesty, King Anduin Wrynn, with the support of beloved Quel'dorei war heroine, Lady Alleria Windrunner, was most relieving, yet terrifying. Talestra had never worked for wage in her life, and was suddenly thrown upon the streets of a foreign city. Everything there frightened her at first, even the tolling bells of the clock tower. She feared to look for work - all her life she'd known only servitude, and it never occurred to her that she would not be forced back into servitude - and so for a while, she scrounged the city's fountains for coin, and fed upon the rat population. She took to the drink - rum, rather than Elven wine, as the smell of it reminded her of her former owner, and she could no longer stomach it. The rum temporarily relieved her skittishness, but many times she was found tucked away somewhere, passed out, with a rum bottle in her grip. One such person to find her in this state was a Kultiran tide sage. He and his sister took Talestra in, and convinced her that Stormwind City did not permit slavery; they convinced her that she would be hired to work for wage, and so one day sober, she left the tide sage and his sister to look for work. Many places had denied her employment, and despair fell upon her. She nearly gave up, preparing herself to pathetically return to scrounging, when a nobleman approached her. Duke Clogerney Casteele - owner of the Netherlight Privateering Company, and Duke of the Duchy of Shade Haven. The nobleman took pity on Talestra, and offered her work with his company. She had no experience in sailing, and so she started off doing what she knew - cooking, cleaning, serving food and drink, entertaining - many of the works she had performed as a servant, but **this** time, she would earn coin doing it. The Duke saw potential in the drunken Elf, and put her through all manner of training and education.

As Talestra participated in this training and education, she began to learn things about herself which were not allowed, or encouraged to develop in a life befitting servitude - likes, dislikes, opinions - she even learned that she had a bit of a temper. Academics of any kind was not allowed, for fear that she would become "too smart" for her owner's own good. Magical affinity - she was told outright that she had none, and she had found that to be false in Outland, but because an education in magic was not permitted, the abilities that she did discover, remained stunted. She found that she liked mathematics, and was good at it, and once she understood that, the discovery of her full magical potential could begin in earnest. She had an affinity favoring fire magic, albeit fire magic tainted with the void from her transformation, turning it more into void fire, but it was fire magic nonetheless. Among other things, an interest in politics grew as well. With hard work, she earned her way out of service jobs aboard ship, becoming a sailor, a deckhand. She aided the Netherlight Privateering Company in its business, defending its fleet from piracy, and the Duchy of Shade Haven from Horde attacks. Most recently, Duke Clogerney Casteele has granted Talestra Bloodsinger land off the coast of Shade Haven, in the Swamp of Sorrows, and the title of Baroness, in recognition of service above and beyond the call of duty in protecting the company's fleet, and in defense of the Duchy of Shade Haven.

## Titles

### Baroness of Duskfury Isle

Talestra Bloodsinger is the Baroness of the Barony of Duskfury Isle, an island off the coast of the Swamp of Sorrows, in proximity to the Duchy of Shade Haven.

## House

Talestra Bloodsinger is the last of the Bloodsinger line, and with her recent elevation to nobility, she has established House Bloodsinger.

## Relationships

Talestra Bloodsinger is currently single. Until recently, she had been engaged to Duke Clogerney Casteele, Duke of the Duchy of Shade Haven, until the Duke went missing while conducting magical experiments. The two met near the end of the Fourth War when he found her scrounging for coin in a fountain in Stormwind City's Cathedral District. The Duke offered Talestra work within the Netherlight Privateering Company, becoming first, her benefactor, seeing to her education and training. A lengthy courtship ensued, resulting in an engagement, but the marriage never took place, as Duke Clogerney Casteele has recently gone missing, and is presumed dead. Talestra has no living children, and to her knowledge, is the last of the Bloodsinger line.

## Important Articles

House Bloodsinger

The Barony of Duskfury Isle

Baron Herke Kruger

House Kruger

The Barony of Shadowmarsh

## Context Articles

The Ren'dorei

Thalassian Language

Silvermoon City

Quel'thalas

The Quel'dorei

The Scourge

The Sin'dorei

Voren'thal the Seer

Shattrath City (Outland)

Outland

Terokkar Forest

The Shattered Sun Offensive

The Ghostlands

Magister Umbric

The Alliance

Stormwind City

Lady Alleria Windrunner

King Anduin Wrynn

Kultiran Tide Sage

The Swamp of Sorrows

The Fourth War

The Great Sundering

Booty Bay

The Cape of Stranglethorn

The Kingdom of Stormwind