Romeo 320 Posted July 2, 2018 (edited) Dame of Midsummer's Eve Name: Alva Dolores Moniker: Dancer, knight, greatsword, blacklord Age: Unknown, deceased Gender: Female Race: Human Birthplace: Lordaeron, Hillsbrad Foothills Alignment: Chaotic Good Affiliation: Lordaeron Army, Amadeus Heartscourge Status: Undead Home: None Voice: Sirris Soundtrack: Pyramid God "Both in old legends and new are plenty of examples of terrifying deathmages and their ability to create a terrible form of life - a dead body which wakens to life through a ritual that burn the flesh and bone to a sooted armour that then is bound to serve the deathmage in eternity. But what these night time fairy tales rarely mention is what happens if, or rather when, the master of black magick succumbs…" The dark knight alone cannot harm it’s master, but if this one somehow dies the undead is free from the pact and chains. These free dark knights, often risen warriors or in this case a lordaeron knight, are often called blacklords by the Kirin Tor and the cathedral priests that saw them during their prime and are in the world extremely rare, which is a good thing given they are described to be terrorizingly dangerous. The dark knight’s freedom unlock the evil energies that was bound during the ritual from which they were created; that power then comes to transfer over into the control of the blacklord. And as understood, would be used against its enemies as it so wished. Once free the blacklord wakes a certain hunger for power, perhaps as a reaction of the enslavement from the pact. Often do they search to places where they can subdue men or beasts, crown themselves to that of lords and begin spreading their nightblack terror. But there are also stories of black knights that after their release have followed the sway of memory back to places that was important to them in the past, before death and revival. The burning jealousy that awakens when a blacklord discovers that someone else has laid their hands upon their once property has cost many lives on Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms and the old Northrend - lives that not seldomly are resurrected themselves and forcefully recruited into the blacklord’s ever increasing horde. One such case was the tragedy of Alva Dolores, a former knight-paladin of the Lordaeron army that was killed during the early stages of Lordaeron’s fall by the undead, due to her grandparents betrayal of her family. The Cult of the Damned would take interest in powerful gauntlets in their upcoming war and so were looking for anyone suitable, and in exchange for great rewards, the grandparents were deceived, and the Dolores family was destroyed. Long after, when the necromancer that held Alva on a leash was finally defeated by the Argent Crusade, Alva Dolores returned to the location where her lowly noble family had lived, a stead in Hillsbrad Foothills, and took revenge on the betrayerblood that stole her home and gave into the whispers of the damned. Afterwards she sunk together there in hopeless delusion of twisted memory and emotion, purposeless. That was until the kind and bannerless Amadeus Heartscourge found her leaned against the ruinous home and gave her life anew. Since then, Alva guards the hunted Amadeus through the lands, last seen somewhere in the lands of Arathi Highlands. What she will do once she is relieved of a far more tame master is unsure, but piece by piece, she is discovering that she no longer rides the lands as the ordinary knight she once was. Edited July 31, 2020 by Romeo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
