Capernian

>    *"When we got pinned down, and everyone else 'fired & forgot', it wasn't even this Eidanar that came back for us. It was his old Sunfury self... a lowly sergeant. Who unknowingly swayed the minds of his future companions to forsake the glory of clashing with the Honor Hold army, and instead do right by us - by the flag. Because that's the type of soldier he is. And this is the type you choose to be?"*
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> Grand Astromancer Capernian
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> ### Affiliation
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> Quel'Thalas, The Magisters, Red Sun
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> ### Occupation
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> Mage, Red Sun Centurion
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> ### Species
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> Blood Elf
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> Female
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> Fel Green
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> ### Debut
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> Dusts of Outland
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## About

**Capernian** is a Blood Elf Mage who survived the Fall of Quel'Thalas, and in its aftermath opted to follow Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider in his quest to find a new source of magic that would sate the insatiable hunger which ailed them.

In the unaltered timeline, she was one of the four inner circle advisors that served the ascendant Sun King as he harvested the chaotic energies of Netherstorm.

It is hard to say whether or not she - or any of the advisors - agreed with Kael's methods, as history reveals that exposure to the levels of raw energies the manaforges produced greatly magnified the Blood Elves' addiction to magic in the long term, while sating their hunger in equally great fashion in the short term. These raw energies were stored in bloodgem crystals, and the Blood Elves stationed in Netherstorm employed the smaller bloodgem shards to siphon from them. Experiments revealed that such great power was being siphoned in a matter of seconds, and many believed that many of the upper echelons had to have been drunk on it: becoming acquiescing of Sunstrider's sinister means. As the Grand Astromancer in the Tempest Keep facility, it stands to reason Capernian would have shared in the same fate.

## Personal life

Capernian had been amongst those initial Sunfury rescued from a grim and fatal fate on the steps of Karabor, when Eidanar Sunreach - at the time known only as "Crow" to her - used the Fel Furnace to open a portal and bridge the two events, allowing a great number of Blood Elves to escape into the present.

She followed the Red Sun into the War of the Ancients and fought alongside them as a Centurion, serving the Red Sun faction by fulfilling several roles, such as War Council proxy, field commander, and more. When the missing Legates returned aboard the Legion Warship, the Equinox, Eidanar and Malande proposed she lead a research & development program concerning their newly acquired demonic asset After some initial hesitation she agreed to join the program as a Director, sharing the Director title and co-leadership with Zerevor, who was more versed in nethermancy.

#### Play it by ear

During the first week in Falcon's Landing, Capernian was on duty during the night Elania Goldstar and a few other Sunfury spellslingers pilfered a few vials of demonic blood and attempted their own conjuration ritual with the Fel Furnace, resulting in the summoning of an old piano, still coated with the red dusts of Outland, from their time in Hellfire Peninsula. The Sunfury spellslingers maintained that the resource seized from the reserves was an insignificant amount, and the benefit added by the musical instrument far outweighed its cost. The Red Guard, while sympathetic, pointed to the importance of strictly adhering to established protocols during a time of war and that circumvention of appropriate channels shouldn't be encouraged or the frivolous use of a valuable resource (at the time) be excused. Before imparting judgement on the matter, Capernian wordlessly sat down at the piano and played an atmospheric Sunfury-era classic.

#### Play it by ear 2

Throughout the first year, Capernian would come to often be selected as a field commander and tasked with the devising and managing the overall battle strategy for all her skirmishes. During one such encounter, she had to defend a small town in the East of Feralas against the invading Highborne armies. Outnumbered 15 to 1, her superiors expected her to manage a few rounds of bombardment before retreating and conceding the territory to Varo'then, the enemy commander - thinking the engagement lost by default and content with at least having evacuated the Kaldorei populace in time. However, Capernian's creatively unorthodox strategy would do more than yield just a few good hits. With nobody else in the town but her, she swung the gates wide open and sat atop their arch, where she serenely began to play the flute. Varo'then lost his temper, chewing out his lieutenants for even thinking to approach the town, as there clearly was more going on than met the eye. The Highborne expected it to be a Stasis trap, or for the Red Sun to have Eclipse concealed troops, or for a meteor to fall down from the sky, or "a million other things these fiends are capable of", as these were Blood Elves they were dealing with, and they had best remember that. By the time Capernian got to the second verse of her song, the Highborne armies had already turned tail and left.