Melora Highflare

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**Melora Rose Highflare,** head of House Highflare, is the Baroness of Whisper Hollow in Redridge Mountains.

## Description

Melora is poised, polite, and reserved, often mistaken for meek. However, Life has hardened the woman. She has tendencies to be cold, calculated, and cunning- like a Wolf in Sheep’s clothing. Depending on whether or not you have her respect- one might be oblivious to the other side of the coin that is Melora Highflare.

## Biography

Melora is- without a doubt- a byproduct of her upbringing. Her late father, Kirtheleon Highflare, was a strict, hardly forgiving man- and it showed in the way he raised his three daughters. Melora, being the oldest and magically attuned, was subject to vigorous academia, the proper mannerisms and etiquette of nobility having been instilled in her at a young age.

Her mother, the late Syanrynn Dawngaze-Highflare, was a Priestess. Melora’s only respite in her young life was when she would accompany her Mother to the Royal Clinic. Seeing her mother and other Priestesses heal and mend the wounded resonated with her, and it wasn’t long until she was training under the Attending Physician once she finished her day-to-day academics. A prodigy child; she maintained high marks in both her magi and medical academics, along with mastering the piano by the time she emerged adolescence.

However, there is a period in her timeline that is left largely unknown. Around the years she would have entered adulthood, any records of her seemed to have disappeared. She resurfaced years later, engaged to a lesser noble named Zaltasia Silentforce. Unfortunately, her wife suffered a terrible accident on their wedding night and passed away the next morning. Since then, Melora has not remarried since.

Living a highly sheltered life of nobility, Melora only heard of the Troll Wars and the Second War through tellings of the men and women who came through the Royal Clinic, or the books that were mandatory to be read only years after. However, the Third War would bring a cold, harsh reality to the young woman.

Melora, along with a team of combat medics, was tasked with administering emergency medicine on the live battlefield, forced to watch her beloved land burn and be painted red by her kin. Though the closest she lost in that bloody, gruesome war was an uncle and a childhood friend, the scars of war traumatized heeds to no one.

After the Third War, Melora’s interest shifted to Life, Death, and the psychology associated with such, and threw the majority of her free time pursuing her studies.

After the death of her parents, Melora took over as Matriarch of House Highflare and has remained head since.

## Titles

### Matriarch of House Highflare

Melora is currently the Matriarch of House Highflare, as she is the rightful heir.

### Baroness of Whisper Hollow

Vynlorin Shandaumath offered Melora the Barony of Whisper Hollow in return for her loyalty, hard work, and aiding the cause of Dreadmist Peak in the Stormwind Civil War.

## House

House Highflare is a lineage that dates back to the first elves of Quel’thalas; powerful magi that have been known by word of mouth to indulge in the darker magics such as hemomancy and fel magics - yet these are rumors and have yet to be confirmed. Ever since Melora took the crown, the Highflares' contributions to society are largely unknown, seemingly working behind the scenes.

However, the Highflare family has been involved in several fundraisers in Dalaran and Silvermoon City, donating generous amounts to the magi universities and orphanages that can be found there.

## Relationships

### Lord Vynlorin Shandaumath

Lord Vynlorin Shaundamath is the Baron of Dreadmist Peak who welcomed Melora into the lands of Withermore.