Celestia Serenfall

**Age**
 **Titles**
Former Spymaster for Court of Masks,
Former Vanguard Captain of The Dusk Lily Vanguard,
 **Residence**
 **Children**
 **Relatives Abridged**
 **Race**
 **Allegiance**
* Noble Houses of Suramar
* Kingdom of Quel'Thalas
* Suramar City
* Sunreavers
* Silvermoon Reliquary
* Magisters

**This page is a WIP. I'll finish this eventually.**

Celestia Serenfall, more widely known as just 'Serenfall' is a self-taught sorceress, specializing in her own brand of combative illusion magic, a bard reigning from the bard's college of eversong, former sunreaver, and a formidable opponet in the grand game of shalassian politics. Most known from her role in The Court of Masks as an event planner and a loosely kept secret of being their spymaster. Her accounts are documented below, hope you enjoy reading!

## History Abridged

Celestia began her life as an orphan with both her parents too impoverished to take care of her, they were part of House Fallseren, a noble house that fell out of popularity and was later exposed as harboring human spies that gained intel on the farstrider patrols. As this was found out, the house was thrown into social ruin and denounced as harbingers of Quel’thalas’s downfall. Celestia’s parents asked a sunwell priestess, named Lydia Lyresong to take care of their sole heir. Lydia, a long time family friend, bard and spy to House Fallseren was nowhere near the house at the time of political collapse. She promised to be a guiding light to dearest Celestia, and if the house could ever be rebuilt they asked her to reverse the name in an attempt of a reversal of their own misfortune, her parents were devout believers in symbolism. Lydia agreed, and she kept the child as her own, raising her in a conclave of priestesses and revered mothers that trained orphaned children to wield the gift of the sunwell.

Celestia, taken away at such a young age, had little to no memory of her parents, but Lydia nicknamed the child ‘Serenfall’ and the last name stuck. Celestia rarely questioned this, but Lydia told her it was an old elven word that translated to ‘destiny.’ Adopted by Lydia she developed a connection with the light early on, as it became a part of her daily life. She lacked a proper childhood as the orphaned prodigies of the light were ingrained with the tenets of the light, and had much work to do such as treating the farstriders, and traversing the province to heal anyone that asked for aid. Celestia seen by her peers as a free spirit often would wander off from the range of a revered mother, dancing in the woodlands like a forest sprite, and letting her hair sweep in the breeze. Her actions were loud, but her voice on the other hand was solemn and soft like an autumn zephyr whistling past your ear. She listened to how Mother Lydia would chat with guests, and slowly gained a persuasive tongue over the passing years. As her skills with the light progressed so did her spirit, her empathic aura often would tune in with another’s, and pick up on what was ailing them.

At the age of 110, Celestia was given freedom to travel outside the eyes of the conclave. She grabbed the opportunity and took whatever job permitted her outside Quel’thalas. Lydia sequestered Celestia to the hinterlands to aid the rangers and dwarves at Quel’danil Lodge. Leaping on this deal, she packed her belongings and with a squadron of reinforcements she took to Quel’danil. There she worked for years as a healer, aiding both the dwarves and her kin, and her listening ear caught messages repeated from couriers traveling through and resting at the premises.

After the destruction and slaughter of the kingdom of Quel’thalas, Serenfall was caught in a predicament as she was caught eavesdropping on the human reinforcements, the lodge was very suspect of her actions and she was asked to leave. She was exiled from Quel’danil, and sent back to Silvermoon in the weeks following the fall. The journey was dangerous, but thankfully the light brought hope to those along her path and promised her a safe return. Healers were gravely needed, so she began work immediately attempting to rescue as many as she could. Tirelessly she went days without sleep trying to cure those afflicted by the scourge blight, and those wounded in the onslaught. Months later, her efforts were recognized by an emissary for Aethas Sunreaver’s newly formed group known as the Sunreavers. She jumped on the opportunity to avenge those who died in the fall, spending the rest of her years in the group and aiding them in northrend, pandaria, and later joining the reliquary briefly in the broken isles to survey azsuna before stumbling into the game of shalassian politics in the newly discovered province of The Broken Isles.

# The Masquerade

Serenfall took leave from the sunreaver’s campaign as the political climate stabilized. She took up barding and began playing at the wayfarer’s rest tavern in Silvermoon City. She harped away on her lyre for several weekends, idling away at what she thought was the close of her adventures. She met a questionable elf by the name of Rhyla, who took note of her harpistry and her keen ability to listen in on others' conversation. Rhyla gave her the opportunity to join a newly formed shalassian court known as The Court of Masks as their city was still unstable after the end of the legion invasion. Serenfall, always open to travel, took this opportunity to explore this new foundland. She trained under Rhyla as a bard and spy, and quickly learnt the tricks of the trade.

Celestia’s apprenticeship was short-lived as she attended a soiree in the city and overheard conversation of noble gossip, of an abandoned keep in the suramar wilds. She notified Rhyla and the court secured a mission to reclaim the keep from the ghosts that had haunted the fortress. They were able to discover the cause of the paranormal activity and enchant the relic to have the ghosts linger and scare off any unsuspecting adventurer. The fortress became the perfect hold for the ravens of the court of masks. Rhyla took leave afterward as she sustained an injury in the field, and Serenfall was to fill the position, becoming spymaster for the court.

Serenfall led several court-missions in securing relics and exploring the uncharted and forgotten wilderness of the broken isles. Eventually the court’s adventurers stumbled across a cult that had been securing artifacts as well, it was later discovered they were led by a rogue exiled-arcanist who had established several alliances and sought to wreak havoc on suramar as revenge.

The Court was able to undo the rogue arcanist’s plans, and unveil the villainess as Sov’rana. She was later executed as a showdown came between the masks and the remnants of her cult-following, as the void witch had entrapped herself and the masks in a pocket dimension.

# The Vanguard Marches

As suramar finally focused on rebuilding, as the threat was squashed. Some from the court began to settle down as the remaining noble houses of suramar demanded the court disband its militia else it would have too much power within the city. As the other masks had retired, Serenfall formed her own military organization of several from the court who followed her, along with the remnants of the dusk lily. Thus the Dusk Lily Vanguard was created, their purpose to be suramar’s vanguard and hunt and quell any threats to suramar. Serenfall gave up her rank as spymaster and turned it in to become Vanguard Captain of the new order.

The Dusk Lily Vanguard led one notable campaign in reclaiming the suramar wilds and with that, they found it inhabited by a band of felborne deep within the wilds that were bent on creating abominations of leftover magical thorns from the emerald nightmare within Val’sharah. The felborne were slain and the thorns were destroyed, some were archived to the botany tower within the nighthold for research. Suramar met a time of peace in the months following and many in the vanguard were tired from their combined service with the past two campaigns. Serenfall vowed to disband the organization and relieve her comrades, as the vanguard was no longer needed. Each member from the vanguard was granted citizenship within suramar and a home within the city as tribute for their service.

Serenfall, relieved of her rank as captain of the Dusk Lily Vanguard, took a post at the Sanctum as a Liaison of Elven relations for the Horde. She spends most of her days doing paperwork at the Sanctum of Order within the city. To some she is dubbed the 'Raven of Suramar' by her friends and now co-workers, for her past duties.

## Appearance

Serenfall had her own sense of style and with that, her own brand of magic much different than the standard magic used by her peers. Her abilities could only be described as ancient elven in technique and unusual, often seen sporting a cloak of arcane shrouding her visage, and her casting hastily made with few channeled spells. Unknown to most, this mage was a mage-priest by trade and a master of illusion, often using this to subvert the energy of her enemies. While Celestia isn’t known for her brute strength, her ability to confuse, distract, misdirect, and drain the enemy’s resources more than compensates.

A tan and triangular portrait with enticing gold eyes were shrouded by soot tresses, and paired with fragile terracotta lips. Her regalia consisted of a feathered surcoat often paired with a wisping amethyst chiffon gown that showcased her sense of style and bare ‘charisma.’ Her beauty much like her magic was phantasmal, as it could delude targets into underestimating her. Violet butterflies of pure arcane could often be spotted in her spellwork, as it was her magical signature as they represented metamorphosis.