Jaira Dawnstrider

**Nation**
 **Born**
 **Titles**
 **Beliefs**
 **Signature**
 **House**
 **Relatives**
* Aervin Bloodhawk (Stepmother)
* Lilk Dawnstrider (Brother)
* Garlin Dawnstrider (Half-brother)
* Sathra Dawnstrider (Half-sister)
 **Coat of Arms**

The Lady **Jaira Dawnstrider**, Baroness Rosehaven, is a Thalasso-Stormwindian noblewoman and vassal to the Duke of Tannon. She is an outspoken advocate for improving relations between Stormwind and Quel’Thalas, as well as promoting Highborne unification.

## Personality & Beliefs

Jaira is cold and aloof, with a severe demeanor that many find off-putting. This is clearly reflected in her cool, nearly emotionless monotone and a resting expression that betrays little of what she is feeling and nothing of what she is thinking. She places a premium on proper manners and professional conduct, believing that etiquette and civic virtue are crucial to maintaining a peaceful and orderly society. She is skeptical of the utilitarian value of most traditional honor codes, but she holds personal integrity sacred.

She is highly ambitious, striving for excellence in all that she does and actively seeking out positions of responsibility. While few would call her tenderhearted, she firmly believes that privilege and duty are inextricably bound - The powerful must be just, and the wealthy must be generous. This is how society is meant to operate, and she is nothing if not a stickler for the rules.

## Description

Tall and willowy, with slender hips and a modest bust. Cold, blue-glamoured eyes are set in a narrow, angular face framed by perfectly straight sun-gold hair that falls just past her chin. She abstains from makeup, revealing a fading scar on her left cheek. She trains regularly to keep herself fighting-fit, but spending so much time fighting with her quill rather than her sword has left her with a bit of softness here and there.

## Biography

She first became relevant to Stormwind politics in the lead-up to the Civil War, supplying material aid to the Patriot’s League, as well as recruiting, training, equipping, and personally leading the White Rose Fusiliers, which served with distinction at the Battles at the Gates, the defense of Goldshire and Dubois’ Garrison, and the attack on Sentinel Hill, standing their ground against savage attacks by superior numbers of heavy cavalry on multiple occasions. Her service earned her the trust of her commanding officer, the Duke of Tannon, who created her Baroness Rosehaven.

### Beneath the Mask

Despite using a glamour to avoid unnecessary confrontation, she has made no great effort to conceal the the fact that she is Sin’dorei from those familiar with Thalassian politics. Certainly, professional international intelligence agencies such as SI:7 should have little trouble compiling a dossier of information readily available in Quel’Thalas. Some military officers may even recognize the Tyrellian colors in her heraldry as the same that appear on the battle standard of the Sable Vanguard, a regiment of the Thalassian military.

Records of her early life are spotty. She was born to parents of unremarkable birth and Sunfury allegiance, and after their death she was raised in the Shattrath Orphanage until, at the age of thirteen, she was adopted by one Arthamir Dawnstrider, a Blood Knight Master, as his heir. They lived in genteel poverty with Arthamir’s surviving family and a variable number of boarders, mostly friends of the family. Jaira was inducted into the Order of Blood Knights as soon as she came of age, serving at various times under the mentorship of Master Reshiam Lightblade, Champion Aervin Bloodhawk, and Champion Cirdath “Mourne” Sunblaze.

She served primarily on the home front during the Cataclysm, helping to suppress serious civil unrest and domestic terrorism and becoming involved in largely classified operations against Legion infiltrators.

She accompanied the Horde vanguard to Pandaria. During the time they were stranded on the continent, she fell in love with the culture, but was reassigned to the home front after contact was reestablished. During this time she began to cut her teeth in the political arena alongside her mentor and uncle by adoption, Aodan Dawnrose. Between them, they built the nest egg upon which House Tyrellian was restored to prominence, with Arthamir Dawnstrider - now Arthamir Tyrellian after taking up the mantle of his House - as a figurehead, supported by the administrative excellence of his adopted brother and daughter. Contrary to popular belief, it was Jaira that began the Tyrellian Homecoming Campaigns by reclaiming Manor Tyrellian while her father was assigned abroad. While she was displaced as heir due to the birth of her father’s trueborn children with her stepmother and former mentor, Aervin née Bloodhawk, it is generally believed that she has been the brains behind House Tyrellian’s political and financial policies. She has also been her father’s primary representative to Court.

No matter how deeply one looks, however, there is no indication that she has been anything but honest with her intentions, having become Baroness Rosehall almost by accident after earning her liege lord’s trust on the field of battle. Current intelligence indicates that her primary objectives are, indeed, Thalasso-Stormwind rapprochement and Highborne unification.

This is in line with her family’s polices since the Darkspear Revolution. Her father and House Head, Knight-Champion Arthamir Tyrellian, has become increasingly vocal in his desire to see Quel’Thalas become independent of the Horde, and his assignment to the home front throughout the last stage of the Fourth War was reportedly by his own request. He has also expressed a keen interest in Highborne unification; he is rumored to have been quite dismayed to hear of the exile of the Ren’dorei, refraining from objecting publicly solely out of deference to the Regent-Lord. As her family’s primary representative to Court and, according to rumor, the gray eminence behind many of her House’s policies, she has made many of these arguments personally, though she tends to be more circumspect with more controversial positions than her infamously bellicose father.

## Titles

### Baroness Rosehaven

She was created Baroness Rosehaven on March 12th of KY 634. It is a sparsely settled territory of woodland and fields along the Rubian River in the Tannon Valley. Since her enfeoffment, she has embarked on an ambitious settlement project, importing significant financial and material resources. Land ownership in Rosehaven is organized according as it is in the Thalassian Southern Marches - Rather than owning a plot or strip of land, the landowner owns a share of the total harvest of all land under cultivation by a given settlement.

There are provisions in Rosehaven law for the title to be automatically suspended in times of war between Stormwind and Quel’Thalas, with all lands and assets being entrusted to the Duke of Tannon as Protector of Rosehaven until hostilities cease. She has been careful to ensure that the language of all oaths and legal agreements under Stormwind law specify that she is acting in her capacity as Baroness Rosehaven, a juristic personality technically distinct from her natural person in the event that her title is suspended. If her title is suspended, her own laws define her as a foreign agent until such a time that peace returns and her title is restored.

### Blood Knight

Jaira is a full Knight of the Order of Blood Knights, having completed her Second Trial. While her attention has been focused on her lands in Tannon, she retains her commission. As a Stormwindian fiefdom, Rosehaven is not subject to any Thalassian calls to arms - Jaira herself, however, has ensured that her barony can function without her if she is ordered into the field.

### Keeper of the Seal of House Tyrellian

As Keeper of the Seal, Jaira speaks with her father’s authority and is empowered to make formal agreements on his behalf.

## House

The Dawnstriders of Rosehall are a cadet branch of House Tyrellian, reflected by quartering Jaira’s white rose sigil with the Tyrellian sword-and-sun.

Motto: As with Arathor, so with Stormwind.

Blazon, formal: Quarterly I and IV purpure, a rose argent with thorns gules; II and III sable, a sun eclipsed, the beams gules, pierced by a sword or.

Blazon, simplified: A white rose with red thorns on a purple field, quartered with an eclipsed sun with red rays pierced by a golden sword on a black field.