Bishop Ishala

Bishop **Ishala, the Compassionate** was born a long time ago in the town of Oronaar on the world of Argus. She is a Citizen of the Kingdom of Stormwind and serves the Kingdom as the current Bishop of the Diocese of Harborage located in the North-Northwestern part of the Swamp of Sorrows. Her congregation consists of mostly Broken and Draenei but there is also a small community of penitent Man'ari living within the Harborage Abbey.

## Ishala’s Personality & Beliefs

Ishala does her best to be an exemplar of the light’s teachings, while sometimes failing, she strives to live her life according to the five wisdoms of: Holiness, Protection, Justice, Retribution, and Compassion and the three virtues of: Respect, Tenacity, and Compassion. Ishala is a kind, compassionate, and gentle woman. She will likely be the first to offer redemption and penance to those she feels can be saved. Being as old as she is Ishala has a very bad habit of acting as the mother of those that are around her, especially if they are members of a much shorter lived species like humans. It is however rumoured, and very much true, that she was famously marble-hearted and even quite brutal when it comes to hunting down cultists, demons, and heretics during the return of the Legion to Azeroth. Her attitude became especially savage after she was presented with the opportunity to return to her home world of Argus to take the fight to the legion and she was confronted with what remained of her once beautiful home world.

#### Views on Other Religions

Ishala is very open about the fact that she is accepting of other faiths. She firmly believe that everyone should be free to worship whoever and whatever they please as long as it is not forced upon others and is not adjacent to or derived from the Cult of the Damned, Legion, Twilight's Hammer, etc.

#### Views on the undead

Ishala views the undead as a distinct people and calls certain members of the Ebon Blade to be her friends. She is kind and compassionate towards them and considers them as a people and does not treat them any different from the living with the exception of withholding physicality. Not out of disgust for them but for their safety as she, like all Lightforged, has been infused heavily with the Holy Light.

## Ishala’s Physical Description

Standing at a height of 7'2" Ishala is the perfect example of an averagely sized Lightforged draenei woman. She carries herself with the an elegance that one would expect from a priestess of her position. Even though she is, like all draenei, speculated to be immortal she does not look as young her her peers. The first wrinkles can already be seen forming on her kind often smiling face. Ishala has become a little pudgy after she retired from her position as Inquisitor of the Army of the Light and moving from a very active lifestyle to a more sedentary lifestyle.

### Regalia

Ishala's vestments exude an aura of sacred elegance, befitting her respected role within the Church of Holy Light. Her attire's primary colours consist of white, gold, and black. Each colour has been specifically chosen for their symbolic meanings: White symbolizing sincerity and peace, gold symbolizing generosity, black symbolizing constancy and grief (for a home, family, and people lost). The fabric has been adorned with exquisite silver and gold embroidery that draws inspiration from sacred hymns and revered scripture in flowing and elegant draenei script.

## The Order of the Burned Rose

The Order of the Burned Rose is a Monastic Order based out of the Abbey within the settlement of Harborage within the Swamp of Sorrows. Founded in late XXX K.Y. the order follows the Rule of St. Pell'ina. The rule revolves around five practices: Prayer, Work, Study, Hospitality and Renewal.

### Man'ari Members

With the recent events of Man'ari Eredar seeking to re-join their draenei kin the Order has opened its doors to these Eredar allowing these Man'ari to find peace with their past though a simple life based on the order's practices.