Remona Thane

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 **Relatives**
* Pippa Rose Thane (Mother) (Deceased)
* Ridley Alexander Thane (Brother) (Deceased)
* Otto-Alexander Thane (Grandfather) (Deceased)
* Desdemona Thane (Grandmother) (Deceased)

**Remona Thane** is a Lady of good reputation within the Kingdom of Stormwind, a nation that adopted her and other refugees after the fall of Gilneas, House Thane of Gilneas amongst the ruins. In 633 K.C., Remona was designated as the sole inheritor of the County of Greyrose and thus marked for the beginning of a career in the political sphere of the Kingdom of Stormwind. Following the Civil War of 634, she was granted the land of the Barony of Montriviere (formerly the Barony of Gravestone) for her contributions to the war effort.

## Personality

Remona Thane is an empathetic, curious woman who, by all shallow implications, appears before others for the sole purpose of being overlooked. She bears no great martial abilities worth commending; no magic worth praising-- And yet, therein lies the beauty of her character.

Once an artist of renown, her lust for creation places a lens of beauty before her eyes like glasses-- and just like that, the world has become a painting to Remona. The love, the hatred, the ignorance, all of it is beautiful and horribly painful. Remona Thane is a woman crippled by her desperation for purpose in this life. She seeks out reasons to love such a worn-torn, ragged world even if it often leaves her grasping at straws.

The Gilnean can be as wondrous and ethereal as warm sunlight from a window, or as spontaneous as the sea. But, as many Gilneans often do, Remona too possesses the ever-gray inner turbulence that comes with growing up in a claustrophobic country which has taught itself to love the never-ending rainy days.

    She is the utter epitome of the romanticism of sadness and she drapes herself in it unknowingly as if it were a gown. The world to her is cruel and unfeeling with only splattered moments of tenderness to keep her afloat. It is all she can do to try and let those moments warm her ever-cooling heart.

## Physical Description

Remona Thane possesses a melancholic beauty. She is elegant, graceful and delicate-- Precise. Beauty marks sparingly litter her light skin; The most notable are two marks that sit on a horizontal line beneath her right eye (visible in most art pieces).

Her eyes are olive-green but one would be forgiven if they mistook them for a frosty blue with how cold her gaze has become in the last three years. It is as if Remona looks past flesh and bone and peers right into the soul of the people she speaks to.

Her thick, dark brown wavy hair descends to around her hips in length. Hence, what may have been very curly short hair is naturally pulled out into long flowing waves. There was a time that she would let her hair flow freely but nowadays she tends to pull it back into a braid or a bun.

Though she once wore simple fabrics and embraced a commoner's lifestyle, Remona has since graduated to wearing expensive gowns and luxurious silks. She accents her figure as she was always done: A form-fitting core, a flared waist, and loose sleeves. Her body is not lithe like an elf's nor is it muscular like a fighter's. It falls somewhere in the middle.

## Biography

### Early Life in Gilneas

    Born in Greymane Court, a district nestled in the heart of the city of Gilneas, Remona was once the daughter to House Thane. She enjoyed an easy childhood and likewise was an easy child to raise. She never made a fuss and she hardly complained. She enjoyed her spoiled lifestyle and cites her childhood as being perfectly uneventful. She found solace in the assurance that her brother would grow up and take over the family name and she would be set up with another rich and kind Gilnean boy to marry and spend the rest of her days with. Unfortunately, such dreams always have unfortunate ends.

As the hell that razed Gilneas City initially began, Remona and her mother were in a second home in Keel. Upon receiving the news, select few other members of Keel banded together and paid a more than handsome sum to flee Gilneas altogether as the Worgen curse spread like wildfire. Remona's mother was tasked with the impossible decision of waiting for her husband and son to maybe come back from the city, or to leave with the others. She chose the latter, a decision that seemed to haunt her for the rest of her short life. Packed with just enough food to last, the small escape party departed for Menethil Harbour-- The closest known harbour they could get to. When they arrived Menethil Harbour too had experienced incredible damage, but it was still being fully evacuated and checked over, and the desperate escape party from Gilneas was thankfully helped by the Dwarves and Human merchants that lived there.

As news spread of the refugees in Darnassus, Remona and her mother departed from Ironforge for Teldrassil to reunite with their people. After living peacefully in Darnassus for a year or two, Remona's mother fell to sickness. This left Remona alone. Having no more ties left for her in the great Kaldorei city, she moved to Stormwind City for a fresh start, well before the burning of Teldrassil.

### Stormwind & the Burning of Teldrassil

Upon arriving in Stormwind, Remona utilized her connection with members of the Kaldorei community and obtained a job working at the Stormwind Docks as an assistant for a shipment company that worked directly with communities in Kalimdor. While working in this role, Remona continued to pursue her passion for the arts as a hobby and established herself as a portrait artist within Stormwind City.

This job continued until the Burning of Teldrassil which saw thousands of Kaldorei and Gilnean citizens turned into refugees. At that point, Remona shifted the focus of her job: She joined a non-profit community by the name of Kalimdor Enclave as the main point of contact in Stormwind for supply management. The Kalimdor Enclave sought to help resettle populations of displaced refugees back within the land of eternal starlight, and Remona happily contributed to their cause. Now a relatively well known painter and portrait artist, Remona began making a not-insignificant amount of money for her pieces which were, and are, often kept on display in wealthy homes and buildings of importance.

During this time, Remona Thane grew remarkably close with an older man that reminded her significantly of her own grandfather. The man, Laurence Van Fleet, was a Count in Duskwood and would frequently commission Remona's handiwork; Namely in producing portrait pieces that resembled his late family. As they worked together on this heartfelt project, so too did they grow to care for each other as a grandfather to his granddaughter.

### Post Fourth War & the City Council

    After observing the political climate in Stormwind following the Fourth War, Remona took a leap and applied to work alongside Patrician Xavier Morgan in the Stormwind City Council and Departments of Stormwind City as Xavier's Deputy Patrician. While serving in this role, Remona made several impressive connections (Gideon Northgate and Calvin Quill amongst them) which led her to become a secretary for the Magical Enforcement Bureau. Several months into her career in the City Council, Remona was promoted and became the first ever commoner Patrician of the City of Stormwind. Following this appointment, she gauged the necessity of such a role and appealed to Lord Maxen Montclair, Lord High Steward, to abolish the position.

It was around this time that Calvin Quill, Remona's colleague and friend, introduced guns into Remona's life as a means of protection.

### Stormwindian Nobility

After several years of working together and learning about one another, Count Laurence Van Fleet reached out to Remona Thane in his elder years. Alas, the sweet man was too old to maintain his lands as he once had. He had no living children to hand his lands down to, nor any grandchildren to dote upon. He had no brothers nor sisters; The only person who went out of their way to check on a slowly wilting man was a simple artist. And so, he called for Remona and offered her all the land he owns. In return, he would like to live out the rest of his days under her watchful eye in peace and quiet. She accepted this offer and was shortly named as the Countess of Greyrose. One of the connections that Remona had made during her days in the City Council referred her to Lady Terez Ascania, a woman of no small importance in 633 K.C.. Terez had just inherited the position of Lord High Speaker of the Ministry of Parliament within the House of Nobles following her predecessor's untimely assassination and was seeking help for her position.

#### The County of Greyrose

    Though her family back in Gilneas had been quite successful in their accomplishments, Remona was but a girl when she had to part with her legacy within the original House Thane, and therefore only knew how to be a Lady in theory. From lands adjacent to Greyrose, Lord Nothanios Leirelan extended his hand to Remona and generously offered her a deal in which he would assist her, but her land would fall under his domain until it was ready to exist on its own once more. The artist graciously accepted his offer and started to rebuild the County of Greyrose to be better than it had been. After having built up Greyrose beyond the feeble, fumbling county it once was, in the year 634, Remona opted to formally separate her county from the Duchy of Terrorwood. This change occurred at the precipice of the Civil War.

#### The Viscounty of Strathmore (formerly Duskwatch)

In the year 633, Remona began working under Lady Terez Ascania as her Deputy Lord High Speaker in the Stormwind Ministry of Parliament. Additionally, Lord Nothanios Leirelan offered the Gilnean a position in the Stormwind Ministry of the Interior as the Stormwind Public Works Committee lead: The Public Works Commissioner. While working in this positions, Remona Thane and Lord Leirelan worked tirelessly to rebuild and re-establish the County of Greyrose with incredible success. Having acquired a bit of attention for this accomplishment, Lady Terez Ascania offered Remona a holding within the Duchy of Eastburg dubbed the Viscounty of Duskwatch (later renamed to the Viscounty of Strathmore in 636.) in hopes of helping rebuild the Viscounty after its destruction at the end of the Fourth War at the hands of the mindless undead. Remona accepted Lady Ascania's offer.

During the year 336, the Viscounty of Strathmore transformed from a simple trade-based hub into a glittering oasis of magics from Kaldorei and Gilneans alike: A marriage of cultures beyond imagination.

### The Civil War of 634 K.C.

Once the Civil War of 634 ignited, Remona (and House Thane by extension) did not initially pick a side between the self-proclaimed nobility-led loyalist faction and the Defias-majority rebel faction. During the early stages of the Civil War, Remona made attempts to reach out to Lord Darian Lyonesse of the Duchy of Dragonwatch which proved to be partially successful. Darian appeared to take a keen liking to Remona as she pleaded with him to be more mindful of his actions.

Surrounded by rebel influence in Duskwood, the County of Greyrose held sturdy in their neutrality and founded an alliance with the Duchy of Mivirdeaux. Remona and Darioch Aurelious formed a formal friendship and vowed to protect each other's lands during the chaos. The fighting between the rebel and loyalist factions came to a close once the Hearthgrove Peace Treaty was approved in the House of Nobles in early March of 634 K.C.. However, that was not the end of conflict as Darian Lyonesse became enraged with the outcome of the Hearthgrove Peace Treaty which sought to see him executed. The Duke lashed out against Stormwind, re-igniting the Civil War.

The County of Greyrose and the Viscounty of Duskwatch (now known as the Viscounty of Strathmore) allied itself with the now-united rebel and loyalist factions, intent on ending the conflict with Lyonesse as swiftly as possible, which they assisted in achieving. After yet another failed attempt to once again plead for Darian to lay down his weapons, Darian's troops slaughtered 148 individuals of the Greyrose levies that were being led by Roland Vanburen, one of Remona's closest friends. This was the spark that ignited Remona's ire against the self-proclaimed heir-apparent.

Following the brutal killing of her troops, Remona began to play into Darion Lyonesse's delusion that they were in love with one another. A party led by Alexandria Williams-Hallewell forged its way into the den of the black dragon, Ivion, who had been manipulating and corrupting Darian Lyonesse in secret. Remona joined said party and partook in the demise of the black dragon, an event that sent shockwaves through the war as Darian doubled down in his grief and frustrations.

Lady Thane and Roland Vanburen joined Spring of Ashmeadow, Breya Kazamier, and Lord Burchard Hillegas on their mission to offer the terms of surrender to Darian. Playing into his fantasy, Remona enchanted Darian into agreeing to the terms of surrender near-unconditionally; But the joy of the moment was short-lived. Darian Lyonesse's privy council, headed by Lord Marshal Allen Wishock, staged a coup and violently kidnapped the delegations party.

During the siege on Dragonwatch, Remona was rescued and joined the battle. At the climax of the conflict, the allied forces faced off against the rebelling privy council and Remona got her revenge on Lord Allen Wishock, brutally executing him at point blank range.

### Post-Civil War

Following the Civil War of 634, Lady Remona Thane won a ministerial election for the position of Lord High Chamberlain where she worked tirelessly with Lord Aurelion Graves, the Lord High Exchequer, to solve a debt crisis in which the Kingdom of Stormwind owed a hefty debt to Khaz Modan and Dalaran. Months after its climactic ending, Remona was finally awarded for her efforts in the Civil War with a fief: The Barony of Gravestone. Sir Roland Vanburen, a dear friend of hers, was appointed as the Steward of Gravestone-- It was given to him all but in name.

Following her time served as Lord High Chamberlain, Remona then went on to work in clerical duties within the Ministry of Parliament until Lord Jonth Rivers was elected as Lord High Speaker of the House of Nobles. Lord Jonth Rivers appointed Lady Remona Thane as his Deputy. The two faced controversy when Lord Jonth Rivers was ejected from his position due to a majority vote of No-Confidence and Lady Remona Thane stepped up to become Speaker only to appoint Lord Jonth Rivers as her deputy and resign. This resulted in emergency revisions to the Grand Charter of Stormwind and a Civil Suit was filed against Remona though that ultimately was dismissed with prejudice.

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