Johnathan Beredric

Johnathan Beredric

"*Fighting a war tests a soldier's skill. Defending his home tests a soldier's heart.*"
—Johnathan Beredric
**Johnathan "John" Beredric** is a Stromic paladin and the order master of the Ashguard. He is one of the few surviving members of both the Order of the Silver Hand and the Sons of Lothar.

## Physical Appearance

Standing at six feet three without armor, the seasoned paladin boasts a well-kept mane of fiery-red hair that flows down his head. With forest-green eyes and a straight nose, it would be the many scars adorning his face that would stand out the most. His physique, though often covered by a suit of plate armor, consisted of well-defined, and evenly-toned muscles despite his age.

## Biography

### Early life

Johnathan Beredric was born in the city of Stromgarde four years before the Dark Portal was opened up for the first time. He grew up learning the tales of the heroes that fought on the fields of Azeroth against the Orcish Horde, and instantly aspired to be like them.

With this in mind, John and his three brothers began to train themselves however they could for combat. Their parents aided them with the high hopes their children would never have to use said skills. Then, at the age of ten, John was squired to a knight by the name of Sir Jorgen the Devout. It was under Sir Jorgen that John got his first taste of war.

### Second War

Sir Jorgen's detachment in Stromgarde's army had been tasked with invading the Alterac Mountains and securing the paths into Lordaeron. During a skirmish in the snowy mountains, Sir Jorgen was cut down by a rampaging orc, and dropped his weapon at John's feet. Instead of listening to his mentor's final command to flee, John picked up the weapon in a fit of rage and, after sustaining a blow from the orc's axe to his shoulder, finished what his mentor had begun.

John was transferred back to Stromgarde to heal for the duration of the engagement, and would not return to the fight until the Alliance began to push the Orcish Horde back. John was squired under another knight of Stromgarde who had lost his own pupil, a man by the name of Sir Tamil the Beloved. Under Sir Tamil, John would fight at the battle of Blackrock Mountain, bearing witness to Sir Anduin Lothar's fall. Seeing a man John idolized fall filled him with rage, and only by being pulled from the field by his knight, did John finally calm himself enough to help take care of the wounded.

As the war continued, John's role became more and more active, and when those that would form the "Sons of Lothar" ventured into the Dark Portal, John and his mentor joined them. John would fight on the fields of what would become known as Outland until the world began to tear itself apart. Being a teenager, a mere squire, his knight ensured John was among the first that returned home to Azeroth before the portal collapsed. His knight, thankfully, would be right behind him and avoid being trapped for decades.

After the war ended, he continued to train under Sir Tamil until he was knighted at the age of eighteen, as a member of the Silver Hand. His three older brothers had since joined Stromgarde's military, and were among the first to congratulate him, even before his own mentor. Several months later, regardless of his position as a paladin, he joined Stromgarde's military and found his way into the nation's powerful cavalry. He eventually found himself an officer of the Fifty-Seventh Cavalry, of which he would remain until Stromgarde's near-destruction.

### Third War

When the Scourge began to show itself in Lordaeron, John's family was split. His parents and one of his older brothers were sent off to fight the Scourge in Lordaeron, and then in Kalimdor where they would eventually pass away in Theramore. Because of this, John feels a slight kinship to the people of Theramore, and her leader, Lady Jaina Proudmoore, whom he thanks for keeping his family alive as long as they were. John's remaining brothers, in light of casualties rising back at home, were chosen as scouts for Stromgarde's military. They too, would be lost on a scouting mission to determine the undead's objectives.

John and a small group of soldiers volunteered to rectify the situation, and John would later kill his own brothers who had been turned into soldiers of the Forsaken. After this, he'd move from unit to unit, often staying away from the front line intentionally, for fear of killing another one of his friends.