Thal'Caleros Brightfury

Out of the nowhere he came.

From the Dark Portal to Quel'Thalas, he announced himself as an ambassador dispatched by the Sunfury to merely inspect the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas, her people and their progress through the last five years since the Scourge invasion before the Sin'dorei joined the Horde to guide only the most loyal through the "promised land" after Voren'thal's 'betrayal' in Outland roused him into a vindicator for his prince.

What a mess he found. A kingdom without a king where her people ate each other alive for a piece of fel. Crime was rampant.

First announced as the "Eyes of Kael'thas" by the original First Mage Falendros Brightoak, this mysterious Lord named Thal'Caleros made his presence first known as an ambassador and an inspector. A middle aged elf, but with little to no written history. All that one would find of him would be the tells and recounts of his many names such as 'Da'rikara,' a name dubbed by the Alliance. A wanted felon whom they still believed dead. He was only hidden by the Sunfury to become their instrument of vengeance relating to the loss of his children by the humans long ago, and now by scourge. It was the prince who pardoned him and his House back to power.

House Brightfury; A family that roused to power by the end of the Troll Wars and one that fell when they, already left weakened by his cultist mother and her practice of the void, were finished off by pirates led by the Captain Ricitelli, and her. The mad and ill-omened Acaleri Brightfury.

From his many inspections, it was the Captain Viranis Goldenmourn's Dawnfury Accord that got his attention the most. By befriending Lord Falendros Brightoak with a promise of entry to Outland, Lord Thal'Caleros found himself an army that he would through time revise along with other guilds. Elves who did not see eye to eye with the Prince like Quel'dorei, he forced their exile. Criminals and alleged murderers; he helped execute with prosecution. All of course to the dismay of some.

After Falendros' mysterious death, the prideful Thal'Caleros only slithered his way within politics when the widow and the second First Magistrix Lady Renya Ravendance made a spell-breaker out of him within the Accord's Magisterium's original Sunsail Council while knowing well that magic was in the fiber of every elf. Legend has it that he learned to spell break when he was young for defense, learned melee in gladiatorial, and now he had a license to kill. Already judge and jury, he was now the executioner. Her verdugo.

Quel'Thalas was his arena, and he went out in glorious red scaled armor to hunt the wicked alone on his dark charger Serenity or in raids with a shield and a double edged blade. However, he yet had to take the proper channels under the higher Spellbreaker Tysendra Arcaneblade and other Magisters. Still, with a silver tongue, his ties with the Light no matter how dim it was, his heritage, charm, music, his advocation of the once gladiator and once magistrix by promoting arenas to the elves, and other means while wearing the finest suits and coats, he received a following due to being both the embodiment of pride as Thal'Caleros, and vengeance as Da'rikara, two things that the Blood Elves associate with.

After many Sunfury inspections, he revised the Accord to his liking by appointing the Sunfury Champion Sonnellion Summersong as the new Knight-Lord who then helped him choose Velathria Netherwind as the third First Magistrix after Renya 'vanished.'

His work resulted in rebellion of course. On a successful voyage to save a child, the spell-breaker was attacked by a summoned elemental of a rebel mage. Deduced in an inspection that it was the work of the void, a mage from their own Accord known as Nastriavis and a possible lich, Thal, mad with rage with the newly appointed Ranger Captain Melisara Silverthorne hunted the parties and burned the wagon carrying its phylactery. He hung the guilty Nastriavis and threatened to not just arrest Nastriavis' Quel'dorei Master Augustus, but nearly turned him Sin'dorei. It was then when Tysendra ended his crusade by returning his daughter Acanthia back to his life.

Seeing Acanthia after so long seemingly stirred something within the inspector's cold heart as he allowed Tysendra and Augustus to leave Quel'Thalas before he turned to Sonnellion to confess that Outland was no promised land. He told of his attempts to revise the elves to empower them into forces capable of defeating whatever was to come. Hence, this Accord.

Though he was incarcerated, due to Ethiriel Brightflame confirming Outland's reality months later, Thal'Caleros was released. But now he was ill. He was so fragile and thin, nearly a wretched. The little Light in him had also left him. Perhaps this was its judgement.

Thal'Caleros, for research sake, the lives of the elves and his, and to quench his addiction, siphoned the arcane out of the guilty as a rogue spell-breaker, his healers; Lady Genadia Dawnthread and Anandore, siphoned all sorts of magics from all races in Outland, regained his strength and took action to find a cure starting by infiltrating the Manaforge Mines with his old Sunfury rank.

Due to helping the elves in their time of need then and now through their magic addiction, he and his main paramour; Magistrix Aendela Palestone, gained even more followers consisting of the sick, researchers that he funded for a cure, fanatics, and the wretched that he was sheltering.

But months passed and none was found. His addiction worsened, he threatened the Accord he once revised, broke and entered, kidnapped, assaulted, manipulated, turned two into wretched and allegedly took the lives of five rangers. The latter however was never proven true.

His crimes were soon exposed by the efforts of Melisara and Theodore Doomashe, but due to the protest of his followers, he was moved to house arrest after his trials deemed him insane before he eventually made his escape to save a daughter's life from The Cult of the Damned.

It is said that this is when he met his end.

Acanthia Palestone, his Quel'dorei daughter, now a paladin, claims that in his dying moments on Augustus' arms, his once rival, the Light returned to him. And though some say that scourge must've taken his body to wield him as a weapon like the prince once did, the humans before that, and his mother originally, Acanthia says that the Light she instilled in him decades ago returned at last to burn the sins and the scars his body carried into mere ashes on the howling wind over the Great Sea. Perhaps a reaction to any strange last powers he surely must've siphoned to carry him on during his long final arduous journey that tested him if true. Whatever the case was, they were gone. The archmage, the rogue spell-breaker and the elven band of mercenaries dispatched by a vengeful Lord De'Mearis who passed on his judgement just as Thal'Caleros once did.

And whether it was the cult that landed the final blow, his sickness, or elven mercenaries, it was pride and impatience that ultimately killed the Lord of House Brightfury. Because just weeks later, the Sunwell was restored.