Diaam

"Mine, all mine!" - Diaam, on the field of battle

The dark-hearted Guardian

**Diaam**, an undead Draenei female, is a Death Knight who was recruited into The Lamplighters in the aftermath of The Fourth War Campaign and participated in the Return of Laudwine and the battles against the Loyalist Remnants. After Laudwine's True Death was assured, Diaam became a Guardian of The Lamplighters and embarked upon the Rift Invastigations alongside her fellow Agents.

Having battled against a rogue soul from a Loyalist Death Knight within her amalgamation, Diaam is an incredibly powerful Agent, capable of taking extreme damage to her form and able to keep going, but remains susceptible to mind control and being compromised by magical forces out in the field.

## Description

Diaam stands as a patchwork of ill-fitted corpses, chopped and re-assembled into a semblance of her former appearance. Mismatching patches of skin are stretched thin over clumps of rotting flesh and broken bones, barely held in place by irregular stitchwork. Her appearance is hard to nail down, as battle damage or weather inclemencies force her to actively replace damaged tissue. A permanently kept feature of Diaam and easy identifier is a damaged right eye, seared away to the bone. Diaam refuses to replace the eye or the skin around it due to personal reasons.

## Personality

Diaam, as a person, is exceedingly straightforward. Being incapable of outwardly expressing emotion, she tends to be flat on delivery of messages, and leans into expressing herself by performing wide hand gestures than you would expect, and shows direct action wherever possible.

Though she often struggles not to take the violent path to solve any issue, she defers to others for a more tactful approach. Going for long periods without indulging her unholy cravings for suffering will slowly lead to her becoming more and more irrational and irritable.

## Public History

### Early Unlife

Diaam was raised in Duskwood during the times of the Red Portal by a sect of Cultists of the Damned by the name of “The Fleshcrafters”. Alongside three other corpses, she was raised as an analogue to the Four Horsemen; an experiment performed by The Fleshcrafters that tried to replicate them but failed miserably, with Diaam herself set to embody Greed. Along with Envy, Pride, and Wrath, Greed consumed the Horsemen’s broken souls, and as they terrorized Duskwood and Westfall, their power and obsessions grew. A combined action performed by Paladins of the Silver Hand, alongside adventurers of the Alliance, brought the dreaded riders down. The Rider of Greed’s downfall brought along by the brave sacrifice of a mighty Paladin.

It was months later that Diaam re-awoke in the dark woods; her corpse had been put back together by the unholy will of her Runeblade. Now free of the Fleshcrafters’ control, she undertook a long journey to redemption. Haunted by all the souls she claimed by her runeblade, she is caught in a constant internal struggle. As split apart to the soul as her body is, she is on an eternal quest for acceptance and redemption, in the vain hope that when her time comes she will be found worthy of it.

### The Lamplighters and the Fleshcrafter's End

Word reached the former Rider of Greed about an orgnisation operating out of Dalaran City that took in people seeking redemption and a better life, and set them to work to better goals. Resonating with those ideals, she sought out Gladnar Brightfist within the City and asked she be able to join immediately.

Her joining was timely, as The Lamplighters were dealing with the reawakening of the Scourge lurking in the Eastern Plaguelands. Diaam fought against the numerous legions of the Scourge that rampaged across the Plaguelands and heard from the Silver Hand stationed there that they believed a new Scourge faction was being orchestrated by a hidden Lich. Discovering the creature's whereabouts by following clues left behind in the carnage, Diaam discovered that the Lich was none other than the Fleshcrafter himself; a leader within the Cult and the same Lich that had forced her into becoming the Rider of Greed for the Horseman experiment.

Battling through the Plaguelands, Diaam confronted the Lich and scoured his minions from the field. Unfortunately her own vengeance was curtailed, as the Lich was able to pull Diaam back under its control, leading to a confrontation between her and fellow Guardian, Telrua Skyfang. The other Agents were able to defeat the Lich and wrest Diaam from his control, but it took some time for her to fully reconstitute herself from the damage inflicted.

### The Return of Laudwine

Upon Diaam's recovery, she returned to find The Lamplighters were faced with an old foe once again: High Executor Laudwine. The undying abomination commanded the Loyalist Remnants; holdouts who did not forsake the Banshee Queen upon her betrayal of the Horde, and Diaam was dispatched alongside her fellow Agents to bring Laudwine and the Remnants down once and for all.

The journey first took them to the Hinterlands, where Diaam was locked in combat with a Loyalist Death Knight. The duel was fierce however as Diaam gained the upper hand in the bout, the Death Knight plunged himself into Diaam, with his soul becoming entwined with the amalgamation inside her. There he lurked over many weeks and months and attempted to wrest dominance over Diaam's body from her steady grip. Diaam returned to her fellow Death Knights in an attempt to pacify this rogue soul, and though she returned some time later, whether they were successful or not remained unconfirmed.

Diaam's return was fortuitous, as The Lamplighters set forth towards the Altar of Darkness; a Scourge construction that was the key that enabled Laudwine to continue to cheat death time and again. They approached the Altar that was now being protected by several of the Mawsworn. While Diaam fought against the army of The Jailer outside, her battle expertise allowed two other Agents to slip behind the lines and destroy Laudwine's soul, ensuring that the Butcher of Hopedale was finally dead for good.