Adelaide

Adelaide Character Art

## Stats

Adelaide Dawntreader is a High Elf mage PC played by Julia. Her familiar Lu'va usually takes the form of a siamese cat. Her father Ma'themar Dawntreader was an ambassador to Lordaeran, with Leodis Skybearer serving as his assistant. She is not very close to her mother, Saridel Dawntreader. Adelaide relies a little heavily on alcohol to get through some parts of her past and present. Adelaide has a very stoic personality, and does not open up a lot about her feelings. However, she is wise and intelligent, having been classically educated on magic and history and many other things beside. She is a Bladesinger, and is versed both in fighting magically and with use of her weapon.

## Background

Adelaide was born in Silvermoon to Ma'themar and Saridel Dawntreader. Adelaide's twin sister Mina (whom she had first described to the party as a childhood friend) died of an unknown illness when they both were 42. Adelaide has said she was not very close to her mother Saridel. She left Silvermoon shortly before the massacre and Sunwell destruction, and was not aware of any of the events that happened in Silvermoon after her departure, as evidenced in her conversations with Isilee. At some point after her departure it is known that she worked on a ship.

## Campaign

### Ratchet Arc

Adelaide was at the Broken Keel Tavern when she was recruited by a group of Bruisers discussing a reward offered by Gazlowe for hunting down the South Sea Freebooters. At the tavern, she teams up with Ga'an and sets out to find the pirate camp. They are caught and imprisoned quickly. When they are imprisoned, they meet Isilee, a Blood Elf rogue, and Alyrin, a Forsaken Night Elf priest, who were set on a similar path, with the stipulation that they also rescue useless elf Gilthares Firebough. With the combined force of the full party, the group is able to make it out of the pirate camp, and successfully returns Gilthares to his cousin. Isilee and Alyrin had made a similar deal with Captain Brightsun that granted them passage north; Adelaide and Ga'an joined them on the trip.

### Ragefire Arc

The party arrives at Bladefist Bay and makes their way to Orgrimmar. Alyrin is promptly kidnapped; the party rescues her, and meets her assailant, Jes'rimon. Jes'rimon tasks the group with investigating some disappearances and some murmurs of the revival of an organization known as the Burning Blade. Adelaide and Isilee bond during this time over shared homes and traumas. The group heads to Ragefire Chasm, known to be the home base of the Burning Blade. During this time Adelaide's health appears to suffer as she brought an insufficient supply of alcohol for the numerous days spent in the cave system. Adelaide survives a surprisingly lethal rope climb down a cliff face. After the group finds Uto Broadedge, an orc to whose mate Juniper swore that she would locate him, Adelaide argues to the party that they should head back; she is convinced to push farther forward in the hopes that they will discover more about the Burning Blade for Jes'rimon. Adelaide is yeeted into the lava later in this same session, which definitely doesn't make her regret that decision. Adelaide notices that Taragamon's blade, which glows in the presence of Fel magic, glows a bit brighter when near Isilee.

After falling into lava a couple more times, Adelaide and the party exit Ragefire Chasm. They meet with Jes'rimon to discuss their findings and are later attacked by assassins in the night. Jes'rimon also was a victim of this attack, and the party decides to confront the issue head on by interrogating Nekros. This goes badly. Next, the group decides to interrogate orc Harkzog in the Valley of the Brave. To do so, Adelaide assumes the form of a troll child that she names Ba'an in order to distract the guards from the illicit activities of Isilee, Juniper, Alyrin and Ga'an. The results of this attempted interrogation are disastrous, with the group kidnapping Harkzog and getting tracked back to Jes'rimon's hideout, exposing him. As a last resort the party goes to confront Neeru directly. During this battle Adelaide is killed, with her soul trapped in a soul gem by Neeru. She is revived through Alyrin's magic and the power of the memories that the party has of their time together.

After the dust settles, Jes'rimon summons Adelaide on a secret mission of her own to complete separate from the party. As she later reveals to the party, this mission consisted of the investigation of several cultists, along with a troll named Kanyi, who she later re-encounters during Isilee's kidnapping by Cinder Sharpflyer.

### First Home Arc

Adelaide's return joyously coincides with the party's arrival in Sen'jin Village. The group meets with Ga'an's family, as well as several other village elders. One of these includes Mother Norn'sa, a soothsayer residing in the town. Norn'sa gives Ga'an guidance upon his visions and upon his quest to First Home, before giving advice to the rest of the party members as well-- to Adelaide, she says 'Mina misses you', which upsets Adelaide and causes her to leave the house. Isilee follows her out, where Adelaide confesses to her that after Mina's death, everything felt completely meaningless, and that she broke when Mina died. Isilee comforts her and they drink together. The party makes their way to Orgrimmar and then to Darkspear Isles via boat. Adelaide makes sure to communicate their activities back to Jes'rimon by Scintilla's delivery service. On board, Adelaide meets fellow Blood Elf Velarise, and is a little snobby toward her about the farming community she hails from.

The party dives down and begins investigating the isles. Adelaide discovers a number of interesting structures, including some of clear Night Elven origin, prior to the separation of Night Elves and High Elves. The city appears to have sunken before the Sundering. After an encounter with a ghost child and a sea witch, Adelaide discovers the ruins of what appears to be some sort of academic building. Adelaide investigates, and discovers a magic box and a gem that seems to have a strange pull on her. The party make their way to First Home, where they all undergo the trials set before them. Adelaide attempts to contact Athian on the ship, but the signal is distorted; she realizes that the place that they have entered is on another plane of existence, which is interfering with the magic of the sending stones. After Ga'an and Isilee vanish during one of these trials, Adelaide, Juniper, and Alyrin decide to all sit back to back at high alert in a clearing until they return.

As they are leaving First Home, Adelaide and Isilee have a heart to heart-- Isilee about her fear that she will betray the party after her past decisions, and Adelaide's fears about the gem she found in the Academy ruins that has a dark pull on her. She gives the gem to Isi for safekeeping. The group makes their way back to the boat. Adelaide summons a Major Image of a Kraken to distract the Mur'gul forces as the party snuck out past them. During this battle, Adelaide manages to contact the ship, letting Athena know that they were in fact alive and coming back up. As they are on the way out, Alyrin and Juniper propose a investigation of a building that looks like it is an armory; Adelaide is opposed, but is outvoted, and allows the group twenty minutes, beginning a second-by-second countdown the moment the vote ends. The group at long last arrives back at the boat. Once onboard, the gem Adelaide has a strange connection to is identified as a elemental mote of arcana.

After their return, Adelaide partakes in the festivities of Wintervale, picking up an elven dreidel and a Sylvanas doll as a reward for a carnival game. She competes with the Gatekeepers in the competition at the Valley of the Brave, winning a fair sum of money and some nice bragging rights. Adelaide and Isilee learn that Kael'thas is no longer the leader of Silvermoon, which is news to them. The new leader, Lor'themar, is known by Adelaide, having met him in passing at dinners with her father. Adelaide is almost killed in a rescue attempt during Isi's kidnapping before her assailant-- Kanyi, the troll working with Jes'rimon-- recognizes her and heals her immediately.