Belladonna Shal'sana

Belladonna Shal'sana is a half-elven sorceress, tailor, and self-proclaimed 'fabrimancer' from the Kirin Tor city of Dalaran. She travels the world, seeking out new essences and materials to enchant and manufacture into fashionable garments and battle-outfits to give men and women alike a fashionable, powerful advantage in combat and society. While formerly running the establishment Fabulana Shal'sana in Dalaran, her shop and many of her assets were sold when she renovated a magical caravan into a traveling home/shop for fashion on the go.

## Belladonna Shal'sana

### Relatives

Magnolia Whitesun (Human Mother), Lestaren Shal'sana (High Elf Father), Barraud Morningray (Human Half-Brother), Adriene Morningray (Human Niece), Brigitte Morningray (Human Niece), Chantal Morningray (Human Niece)

### Occupation

Fabrimancer (Sorceress)Tailor - Enchantress

## Description

A glamorous and conventionally beautiful half-elf, Belladonna was blessed by both of her parents with lovely features that often set her apart from others and gave her an edge in society during her formative years. Her reddish brown hair is long, with large ringlets that fall as far as her mid thigh. While tied up by a ribbon during strenuous activity or combat, she prefers to let her hair stay down while in safe areas or during periods of rest.

Sharp blue eyes with a faint glow, plush lips, and a small, pixie-like nose are the first features you'll notice about Belladonna upon looking at her. A bright, pearly smile can often be seen behind lips painted with various colors of lipstick, depending upon what elaborate makeup routine she has put on that day. Belladonna often refuses to be seen in anything but the most fashionable of outfits, always sewn by her own hand. Her outfits vary in color, design, and theme, but her favorites appear to be reds and pinks.

As a mix of elven and human blood, Belladonna has the natural wide hips and shapely frame of a human, kept tight, smooth and youthful by her elven heritage. She also has short, pointed ears that are often hidden under her mass of hair when it's down, otherwise becoming visible with her hair pulled back. She is a bit short however, standing at only a mere 5'4", leaving her often looking up at those around her in most cases.

## Personality

   Belladonna is a cheerful and well-read student of Dalaran, and it shows in the way she acts and speaks. Her mannerisms, speech, and actions are all designed to be elegant and meticulous. Though some call it snooty, Belladonna prefers to call it classy. Her high brow approach to life and social interactions can often lead to a divide between herself and lower folk, but she often pays this no mind.

Fashion and fabrics are Belladonna's heart and soul. Not only will she sit and chat for hours about the details of stitches and threads, but she'll happily design an entire outfit for her conversation partner during that period of discussion. While she does value the profits she earns, it's the art of the craft and the joy of those that wear her garb that drives her to continue her work.

Belladonna is an experimental and curious woman. Standard fabrics just won't do for her designs. Nonono, only the best will do for her. As such, Belladonna's drive helps her dive into dangerous situations and risky environments for the sake of fashion itself. That and to help her friends in need, probably. Maybe. It's hard to tell how much of Belladonna's actions are for her fashion, and how many are for the good of the people and her friends.

## Background

### Early Childhood

Born 15 years before the First War, Belladonna was blessed to be the child of Archmage Magnolia Whitesun of the Kirin Tor and Magister Lestaren Shal'sana, Lord of the Golden Hills. Due to a natural prejudice among the elves when it comes to mixed relationships, the couple lived with their daughter in the Mage City of Dalaran. As a child of two powerful spellcasters, Belladonna was enrolled in classes at a young age for both general education, as well as to hone her natural abilities as a sorceress.

Unfortunately, life would not be perfect forever. Due to differences in opinion, her parents would divorce, with her father moving back to his homeland of Quel'thalas, visiting her regularly through the use of translocation orbs. Belladonna would remain with her mother Magnolia, but found her mother was... Not really ever there. Belladonna was often subject to nannies and babysitters as her mother proved too busy to give her attention, not that she truly cared to.

It wasn't until she was 10 that she admitted to her father how she felt. The two had always been close, spending as much time together as they could whenever he came to visit her. Her mother just... Didn't care. She was never around, barely spoke to Belladonna, and at times left her with other overnight. Work, she claimed. But Belladonna knew the truth. Lestaren was taken aback by this revelation, unaware how little attention his daughter was receiving from his ex-wife.

Once more leaving behind his homeland and returning to Dalaran, Lestaren purchased a home for himself and his daughter in the city, demanding custody of Belladonna from Magnolia. To no one's surprise, she did not fight him on this. To make up for his ex-wife, Lestaren doted over his daughter, caring for her and helping her discover her own interests and hobbies, which ended up becoming tailoring. As early as her teenage years, Belladonna began making her own outfits and even customizing her father's (often without his consent).
### The Third War

As the Third War began, Lordaeron would suffer. Necromancers became rampant, undead began to spread across the Kingdom, and the Prince of Lordaeron betrayed his people, slaying the king. Now a grown woman, Belladonna lived in a small but pretty studio in the heart of Dalaran. Her father had returned to Quel'thalas years prior to tend to his people and family estate. At the start of the war, Lestaren and Belladonna kept in touch, while Belladonna's mother continued to shun her daughter and refuse to keep in contact.    That contact broke once the Scourge turned their ire to Dalaran. Belladonna was evacuated with the rest of Dalaran's people, fleeing to Stormwind, where she was given temporary room and board in the Mage Quarter. To assist with the refugees, Belladonna provided her assistance through tailoring. Clothing, blankets, and pillows were crafted and passed about to those in need. In order to keep herself afloat during these trying times, Belladonna worked at a small tailoring shop in the canals where she made a small, but important income to buy food and drink.
The news would come late one evening as she closed up Lucy's Lookers, the shop she'd been working at during her time in Stormwind. A letter received by courier and an apology. Her father had been killed in action, marked as one of the fallen during the invasion of Quel'thalas. Distraught, Belladonna would fall into a deep depression, crying herself to sleep each night, barely able to work through her shifts. Over two years, she would slowly regain her composure, rising in her position at Lucy's Lookers until she became their head tailor, taking special commissions and using her natural arcane ability to create magically tailored outfits that enhanced the user's abilities.

This honed talent would serve her well once she and the former residents of Dalaran returned to their half-destroyed city to begin reconstruction. Using the money saved from her work, as well as a small trust granted by her father's estate as a result of his death, Belladonna utilized the reconstruction of Dalaran to build her own little shop, naming it in honor of her beloved father, Fabulana Shal'sana. Here, she focused on both her studies of the arcane, as well as her ability to tailor magical outfits for utility, fashion, combat, or a mix of the three.

### Fabulana Shal'sana

Fabulana Shal'sana would become Belladonna's pride and joy. Starting as a simple shop sporting Belladonna's own designs, notoriety slowly overtook her storefront as people noticed her elegant and fanciful designs. The reconstruction of Dalaran, taking inspiration from the elves, was quite fanciful in its own right, making Belladona's designs truly fitting of the city. As interest rose and orders became more frequent, Belladonna realized she would need assistance.
Admittedly, Belladonna did not trust others with her shop, and so Quinn was designed. An autonomous costume, designed in the appearance of a harlequin, to serve as an assistant for Belladonna's day-to-day activities. Her beloved puppet, semi-sentient, became a close companion that she confided her worries and stress to, though admittedly the puppet was merely there to listen more than anything. Over the years, the isolated city of Dalaran would come to view Fabulana Shal'sana as the place to get your fashion before a night out in the city.

### A Change of Plans

Things began to change once Dalaran ripped itself from the earth, moving over the land of Northrend to serve as a citadel against the Lich King. Fashion wasn't on the forefront of the people's minds, and Belladonna saw her sales begin to plummet. That simply would not do. No, no it would not. This called for a change of plans. Battle outfits, that's what the people wanted! Fashion-combat, with magical equipment to protect and help those who wore it. Bags of extradimensional space, flying carpets for travel, even orders for bandaging for wounded soldiers.

But such items required much rarer materials than she initially had at her disposal, and it was much cheaper to acquire them oneself than to purchase them in the city. Donning her own battle outfit and altering Quinn's costume to become more suitable for battle, Belladonna descended from the safe haven of Dalaran that had served as her comfort zone for many years since she returned to it. Taking up odd jobs in Northrend, Belladonna utilized these jobs to acquire rarer materials and essences in the land while making some extra coin to supplement the materials she couldn't acquire.

Moving between adventuring for materials and returning to her shop to fulfill orders and improve her abilities as a tailor with new techniques, Belladonna did her best to provide what she could to the people of Dalaran and adventurers of Northrend with her ever improving skills. Though Belladonna did not directly face the threat of the scourge or participate in the grand battles against the horrors of Northrend, her outfits would find their way to those battles, protecting the adventurers that purchased her designs from various forms of harm.

### Moving Forward

After the fall of the Lich King, Belladonna began to contemplate on her life. The one who had killed her father was dead, and she began to realize once more that there was more to life than just the city she lived in. Dalaran was once more open to the world, and that world continued to grow and change, even without Belladonna there to witness these changes. She'd enjoyed her time outside the city, discovering new materials, essences, recipes, and making new friends.

She knew one day she would need to move forward in life again, and perhaps this was the push she needed. First, the sale of her shop. Fabulana Shal'sana would close its doors, the property being purchased by an elderly wizard woman who wanted to conjure and sell pastries. Next, the purchase of a magical carriage. The Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, and more, there was so much to explore, and Belladonna planned to do so in both comfort and style.

Packing her things in the carriage, Belladonna set off with Quinn to learn more about the world and the potential of tailoring, and to spread the fashions of Fabulana Shal'sana: Mobile Style.
### Heading to Hearthglen

If Belladonna wanted to make a name for herself, she knew that she was going to need materials... Rare and powerful materials to craft wonderous fashion pieces that served visual, practical, and magical purposes. With Quinn at her side, Belladonna traveled to Lordaeron to seek out an ancient prey. Shadra, the Spider Loa, was known to have a temple in the Hinterlands. Though she could have gone directly to the Hinterlands, it was best to find allies and make connections... And so her eyes turned to the Argents.
It was in Hearthglen that Belladonna found old faces and new, reconnecting with clients such as the elderly orc warlock Akale, and the Argent Commander Adam. New friends as well, the Red Baron Dietrich, Keral the mercenary, Lana the sin'dorei warlock, and the strange but protective Kaldorei Syth. Belladonna made friends, earned profits, and worked to her heart's content producing fashion, fabric, and magical goods for her customers.

In addition, Belladonna began collecting and bartering for potent resources necessary for both tailoring and enchanting, ensuring an ample supply of materials to keep her business flowing... And spreading. This ended in a deal with the Argents to open the first of her new franchises in their town of Hearthglen, the stall being provided in exchange for her work redecorating the Hearthglen Inn. Hiring the tailors of the Argents, Belladonna provided them with a proper orientation to understand how to run the shop without her constant supervision.
### Goodbye Hearthglen, Hello Hinterlands!

Satisfied with her work and influence in the Argent's settlement, Belladonna packed her carriage, wishing well to her new found friends and companions as she prepared for her next journey south, to the Hinterlands. It was time to discover the current state of Shadra'alor, and if there was any silk remaining from the Loa, Shadra. Parked first in the Aerie Peak, Belladonna would slowly traverse her way across the Hinterlands and find herself parked at the outer edge of Seradane. It was here that she met new friends and took some time to relax from her busy work life.
But not for long. Within the week, Syth came to her with his companions, prepared to travel to Outland. He failed to mention a surprise guest, however, in the form of Tarandir. The Demon Hunter, freshly exiled from the Plaguelands, was on quite negative terms with the Argent Crusade, who Belladonna had business ties with. The tailor made her stance clear: Tarandir must keep her identity and occupation secret unless absolutely necessary, and they must be discreet in their travels with her. The others agreed, and they made their way to Outland.

It was upon entering Outland. The destruction of the realm wracked Syth's body, closely attuned to the Ley Lines. As he caused a massive commotion at the entrance between worlds, they were forced to hurry through the Hellfire Penninsula to seek safety and solace for the man. This lead them to a ridge in Hellfire containing a massive crystal embedded into the ground, plagued by crystal giants. It was here that Belladonna decided to park her wagon while the others set up camp in order to rest after the stress of travel.

Upon waking up, however, Belladonna was met with a massive colossus sitting in camp. While she was asleep, it seems Syth had formed a contract with the colossus, whose crystals somehow eased the elf of his pain while on the dead world. In return for following them, Syth would feed it mana. Angered at Syth's rash decision and disrespectful lack of discretion, Belladonna guised herself and hid her wagon away in hopes of rumors not reaching the argents of her voluntary teaming up with an exile from their lands. But as they traveled, she brooded.
### The Kidnapping of Belladonna

It was as they made their way to Shattrath. The giant continued to follow, and the more they traveled, the more people stared. As the group stopped outside of the city, Belladonna continued within alone to consider her options. Parking her wagon in the Aldor's Rise, she decided to take some time to cool off from the situation prior. Closing her eyes, Belladonna decided to rest for the night in isolated solace.
Their methods were swift. Little did Belladonna know that she had been followed. Ever since Hearthglen, where her exploits as a Fabrimancer had become rather well known. The cultists grabbed her, marked her with magic suppression, and forced her into a sack. She never knew how long they kept her in that tight space... But she awoke as they dumped her onto the cold stone floor of a cave, surrounded by robed figures with horrific masks... And before her, a woman made of Shadows.

They called her the Mistress. She was the one who forced her way into Belladonna's mind. She was the one who forged the conduit tools that allowed the others to tap into Belladonna's abilities. They never could force her to reveal the secrets of her magic... No matter how much they tortured her. But that didn't stop them. The minions of the Mistress spread across the kingdoms, stealing greater and greater materials for use in their dark deeds. Rare, powerful fabrics and magical items to imbue into those fabrics as Belladonna was tortured and drained of her abilities through the dark touch of her captors.

She wanted to die. She wanted the pain to stop. How long had it been...? Weeks? A month? She didn't know.

And then she heard him. She had been bound and strung up. Gagged and blindfolded. She had become nothing more than an object to her captors. A tool to be used for her abilities and nothing more. But Barraud's voice rung through her ears. Then Keral's. Adam. Velyndra. Even Syth. She heard their struggles and cries as they fought to save her. She felt her magic being turned against them, even if she couldn't see it. The last thing she felt was a hand grab her before she lost conciousness.

Belladonna woke up some time later in Keral's arms, confused and on the verge of tears. Her friends surrounded her, worried yet relieved to see her. And she was overjoyed to see them as she wept. After some questions from the Kirin Tor, who had come to assist as well, Belladonna was taken back to Hearthglen where she was able to rest. Rest so well, in fact, that she and Keral became victim to the Sleeping Sickness.
### A Changed Life and the Shattering

Keral and Belladonna awoke in a twisted land. It was as if Hearthglen had been corrupted and changed... But it did not take long for Keral to remember the sensations of the nightmare he had experienced in Dire Maul. The two traveled together, desperately fighting off madness and monsters as a voice called to them. It felt like days before a rift opened below them... Dropping them in right in the midst of chaos. Tyrande and her allies, surrounded by nightmare beings, attempting to awaken Malfurion Stormrage.
In her desperation, Belladonna utilized every last ounce of her energy to open the path to Malfurion, allowing Thura to strike the tree wrapped around him with the Axe of Cenarius, freeing the Archdruid from his imprisonment. After witnessing the joyous reunion of Malfurion and Tyrande, Keral and Belladonna awoke in the real world. It was here they found themselves heavily bound to a pair of beds in Hearthglen's Mage Tower, where they discovered that they had begun attacking the others while under the influence of the sickness. The two were unshackled and left alone to collect their thoughts and process what had just happened.

It was in that tower that they had their first moment alone together. Belladonna had, admittedly, changed from the trauma of her kidnapping. She realized there were things more important than her business, and people she cared about deeply. He was one of them. Unfortunately for the pair, their tender kiss and blissful moment of romance was interrupted by the burly and boisterous Radagan, who was overjoyed to see Keral safe.

The two would remain close after their confession, and in agreement, would ready themselves to travel the world together to prepare for the disasters stemming from the Twilight's Hammer. The natural disasters they caused by their unrest of the elements had worldwide consequences, and they would need all the protection they could get from the fury of the elements. Now upon the road, the pair sought out the tools that would help them survive.
## Abilities

**Fabrimancy:** Honing her skills with fabrics in tandem with her sorceress abilities, Belladonna has achieved the ability to manipulate and enhance her fabrics for use in combat and exploration.

* **Fabric Manipulation:** Belladonna utilizes transmutation to manipulate the fabrics of her outfit, utilizing them as tendrils for combat. With a mix of enchantment and transmutation, she can harden or soften them for physical attacks.
* **Essence Extraction:** Belladonna draws out power from her fabrics, using them as catalysts for her spellcasting. Depending upon the essence infused in the fabric currently in use, she can draw forth that fabric's specific element for elemental attacks.
* **Puppetry:** Belladonna is able to craft cloth golems with her tailoring by imbuing enchantments into costumes as she creates them. The process is tedious and expensive, requiring her intense concentration. The only known cloth golem created by Belladonna is Quinn.

**Sorcery:** While Belladonna has focused specifically in Transmutation and Enchantment schools, she is still capable of spellcasting from the other schools of magic.

* **Standard Evocation:** Belladonna can evoke and expel magical projectiles of arcane, frost, and fire. Without her Essence Extraction, results are fairly basic.
* **Standard Abjuration:** Belladonna can produce small shields and wards for protection. Without her Essence Extraction, results are fairly basic.

**Tailoring (Expert):** Belladonna is a skilled tailor, capable of creating fashionable outfits, magical cloth items, and even higher quality bandages that help stem and mend wounds at an improved rate compared to standard bandaging.

* **Fashion:** Belladonna is an established Fashionista with her own brand and style, as well as some renown from her original Dalaran shop, Fabulana Shal'sana. She is capable of creating and mending outfits on the fly from fairly basic materials.
* **Magical Items:** Belladonna is capable of creating magical items. From magic cloth armor to flying carpets and everything in-between, if you give Belladonna the materials, she'll try her best to create what you want. The strength of the items she produces is limited to her skill level (to be decided).
* **First-Aid:** Belladonna is able to create high quality magical bandaging capable of improved wound closure and healing. These can serve as temporary measures for stemming wounds and helping allies remain upright during battle.

**Enchantment (Journeyman):** Serving as a secondary profession, Belladonna uses temporary enchantments in her combat, but also uses permanent enchanting techniques in her tailoring to help strengthen and enhance her designs.

* **Temporary Enchantments:** These are temporary magical boons given to items and individuals during combat or exploration in order to enhance their properties or abilities for a short period of time.
* **Permanent Enchantments:** These are profession enchantments imbued permanently into items and objects through rituals, essences, and tools that Belladonna utilizes in her creation process.

## Notable Items

 Battlesilk Leotard
[Passive]: Belladonna's ability to manipulate fabrics is enhanced through this armor. Fabrics connected to it are easily manipulated by her telekinetic control.

## Home

Formerly a resident of Dalaran, Belladonna's old shop, Fabulana Shal'sana, was sold when she decided to take up a mobile business to explore the world and learn more about both it and her craft. She now resides in her magical carriage, Fabulana Shal'sana: Mobile Style. This magical carriage serves as both her home and mobile shop, providing a method for selling her services and traveling in comfort.

## Companions

* **Quinn** - A semi-sentient harlequinn costume designed by Belladonna in her younger years. Originally constructed as an assistant for Belladonna during the height of her career, the fabrics of the costume puppet have been enhanced, allowing it to serve as a combat companion to protect Belladonna on her travels.

## Quotes

* "I know I'm tiny, but I'd like to think I could resist the effects of ham being thrown at me, Akale."

## Notes and Trivia

* While Belladonna's mother Magnolia is still alive, the two have not been known to speak since the evacuation of Dalaran. Magnolia Whitesun has become a renowned Archmage in Dalaran, known in particular for her abilities in Conjuration and Evocation.
* Belladonna sleeps with a small ever-burning candle by her bedside. Though she claims she isn't afraid of the dark, her reactions to the dark say otherwise.
* Belladonna's favorite food is Crème Brûlée.
* Though Quinn can't reply, Belladonna treats her like a real person and will speak to her as if she has her own mind. She clearly sees the puppet as family.
* Belladonna is a Fujoshi and often sketches art of her male allies in romantic poses together.