What battlescars she has accrued are hidden beneath her armour/clothes. She is savvy enough to keep herself in top shape at all times.
Typical rogueish leather armour, tough but flexible. Invariably vendor bought, traded or auctioneered.
Casual wear includes smooth pants, a white linen shirt and a sturdy vest that's just enough to offset her feminine figure to the point where she can quite easily be taken for a slim young man - a fact she enjoys capitalising on.
Highly preferential towards masculine attire when it comes to formal wear, up to and including a complete tailored tuxedo set. No matter what it'll cost.
Sword and dagger; assortment of throwing knives and homemade grenades and bombs. Keeps a lovingly handcrafted and extensively customized sniper rifle on hand for "special occasions".
Easygoing and amiable when at ease. Highly capable of adapting her approach as the situation requires, though she always maintains a distinct low alto.
The casual-adventurous type. Takes each day as it comes, sporting a fairly carefree attitude about life and its enjoyments - unless she's on a mission of particular importance, in which case it will have her full attention until she finishes her business. Any job that pays well enough is a job she’ll take. (Emphasis on "well enough". If she doesn't think it'll pay "well enough", good luck getting her to sign up.)
Quite humorous and will gladly laugh at her own jokes, even if no-one else does. Very tomboyish, to the point of behaving more like a man than a woman. Likes to act suave, and can exhibit an almost demonstratively flirtatious streak at times.
Possesses an adamant personal integrity, and bothers very little about other people's opinion of her. Respect her, and she will respect you back. Don't respect her, and she will happily ignore you. Until you start insulting her, that is. Then she'll most likely keep prodding you on just to see what depths of vulgarity you're prepared to sink to in order to get a rise out of her.
Has a tendency to be rather selective about authority. She adresses superiors respectfully if not always formally, in the case she does consider them superiors. Otherwise she'll treat them as the next guy, or simply not pay attention at all.
Despite what most people may think, she's quite intelligent and has remarkable focus and deduction skills. Always highly respectful towards archivists and record-keepers. Has a significant soft spot for books. Let her inside a library, and it'll be a while before she gets out again. Even if she's on a mission.
Likes to adopt a lazy drawl when around uptight people, purely for the entertainment of watching them fume/fluster. If it does make them loosen up a little, all the better.
Finds a somewhat unappropriate enjoyment in teasing cute girls, especially when she's had a couple rounds of liquour.
Engineering for its many and varied applications in a Rogue's repertoire; mining for resources; cooking for self-sustainment and fishing for the relaxation.
Highly adept with the classic abilities of a sword-dagger rogue. Agile and ruthless in combat; not too shabby at throwing either.
A very capable reader from experience and incessant practice.
Very rarely beholden to superiors and will not have anyone order her around unless she chooses it. Has a deeply ingrained loathing towards oppression, whether against herself or others - be they Alliance or not.
Tends to get sidetracked a little too easily. Especially by cute girls.
Also tends to get a distinct migraine whenever she uses a mage portal, or indeed at any time she's sufficiently close to any arcane construct - physical and otherwise - of sufficient power ...
Has very few overt allegiances. While she doesn't shirk from picking up missions that are deliberately military in nature and endorsement, she prefers to think of herself as "operating outside the system" as it allows her a much greater degree of freedom and is simply more convenient that way.
Has become an integral member of the Dragonguard, the umbrella name taken up by the (somewhat unorthodox) Crossdeep clan and its closest friends and associates.
Orphaned during the Second War, no remaining direct family that she knows of.
Moon Priest Theluin Moonwhisper ~ has been a close acquaintance for several years, and functions in many ways as a confidante and surrogate guardian for the she-rogue. The main source of her overall good standing with the Kaldorei, and her continuous contacts with Theramore.
Gilthoniel Freezeflame ~ encountered and befriended during the Northrend campaign. They have since maintained a professional distance to each other, although Tuan is one of the few who has learned to read and respect the taciturn Frost Mage. His recent disappearance and change of demeanour has unsettled her greatly ...
ArchDruid Pterneldan Crossdeep ~ a close friend, acquainted through a somewhat auspicious string of run-ins and happenstances throughout the Stormwind lands during the uneasy lull in the immediate wake of the Lich King's defeat.
Rii-nee Crossdeep ~ Pterneldan's adoptive Gorloc Oracle daughter. The she-rogue wound up helping babysit the little bundle of mischief during her earliest year, and has over time become a sort of big-sister-figure.
Terrothanes Magmaheart ~ encountered and befriended after his warden, Gilthoniel Freezeflame, was exiled from the Kirin Tor following a rather momentous shakeup in Dalaran. With the events of the Cataclysm and Terrothanes' true nature cast into the open, Tuan has become something of a makeshift guardian for the young Fire Mage while he remains under the Crossdeep clan's protection.
Eleutherios (formerly Eleazar Thomaius Abraham) ~ a Death Knight whom the she-rogue befriended at the outset of the War in Outland, at which point the man's constitution was in a far different state ... they lost contact after the Scourge invasion struck that heralded the Northrend campaign. Has recently regained contact and is gradually helping him piece his still fragmentary memories back together.
In the light of her dedication to the eclectic Crossdeep family, Tuan has become an integral member and a fixture of the inner circle of the ArchDruid's clan.
Has a certain, lingering familial fondness for Brother Paxton, the aging librarian of Northshire Abbey.
Will most likely have at least one in every corner of the world once she's done with it. She cares little for grudges herself.
As much as she prefers to maintain moral neutrality, she nevertheless harbours a pronounced distaste towards Undead in general and Forsaken in particular. She knows better than to let this sidetrack her - for the time being ...
Due to the events leading up to and following the Cataclysm, the Twilight's Hammer has steadily begun earning a spot on the she-rogue's personal hitlist as well ...
Toechomper ~ a mechanical squirrel, constructed (and programmed) by Tuan herself.
NakNak ~ a surprisingly social little raptor hatchling that imprinted on Tuan during a recent recon through a significantly remodelled Stranglethorn Vale. Has stayed in the steamy jungle since then, but likes to tail its 'guardian' whenever she's travelling through ...
Mr Grubbs ~ an astonishingly affectionate Devourer grubling that obviously took a shining to the she-rogue during a recent extensive investigative stint into the Plagulands of former Lordaeron. She doesn't mind the little critter's exuberance ... much.
Mission
Freelance Adventurer
"You aren't getting anything done if you aren't making enemies every so often."
To seek her limits.
To live her life to the fullest.
Ensuring the composure and safety of her fellow Dragonguard members, and the eventual success of their joint endeavour to locate the whereabouts of the missing clan patriarch, Pterneldan Crossdeep.
History
Northshire Abbey; originally born in Stormwind during the First War; now jumping equally back and forth between the Alliance capitals as need dictates
One of countless orphans left in the wake of the war against the Orcish Horde, Tuan was raised by the monks of the Northshire Abbey alongside many other children that had been likewise bereft of parents and guardians. She quickly learned to fend for herself, nabbing extra food morsels here and there, to bite and bite back and where to take refuge when the boys would get too boisterous. The abbey's library became a regular hideout, where she would stroll in and out of the winding shelves, looking at the covers and occasionally pulling out a book and paging through it at random. Naturally, the monks would invariably shoo her out whenever they found her, and this in turn made her increasingly skilled at hiding herself from prying eyes.
Exactly how she went about it will probably never be known, but somewhere along the line she learned to read in bits and pieces. When the newly-appointed residential librarian (a certain Brother Paxton) discovered her one day, curled up in a hidden corner and deeply engrossed in one of the larger tomes, he decided to allow her the luxury of moving about the library at will as well as educate her more in-depth, which further cemented her interest in and respect towards literature.
As soon as the boys started to come of age, the local sherriffs wasted no time in rounding them up and beginning to pound the legendary Stormwind discipline into them. At this point, Tuan began to realise her fascination with bladed combat. Like the other girls, she would regularly watch the sword drills, but for a radically different reason than the young swooning females lining up along the training fence - she observed and memorized, noted patterns and techniques and paid attention to the officers' barked instructions. She would often sneak in late at night and "borrow" a practice sword for a few hours, before a drill sergeant would catch her and roughhouse her off.
It didn't come as a surprise when she volunteered in the training regiment the following spring, and she quickly found her hands full. She wasted little effort returning the challenges that would inevitably crop up between the trainees, establishing her combat style as one built on agility and mobility rather than brute strength. If the officers took notice, they didn't show it - but they did take notice of the determined young woman’s obvious battle talent.
It is perfectly possible that she could have become one of the finest soldiers Stormwind had seen in a long time, had it not been for her inherent difficulty with authority - or, rather, the difficulty said authority would face whenever she didn't acknowledge it as such. Following a succession of less successful drill sergeants, she was unceremoniously dumped from the training regiment. True to her form, she took this as an invitation to set her feet onto the path of the rogue instead, and has since found it much more rewarding than all the laurels in the realm.
--Â Most of her current acquaintancies are almost entirely due to chance encounters. While still easing into her career as a rogue, she more or less literally bumped into Theluin Moonwhisper, Druid of the Antler gone Priest of Elune, while taking a stray wander through the Stormwind Library during one of her bookhunts (their quickly discovered mutual interest proved to be a very potent icebreaker).
-- The distinguished ArchDruid Pterneldan Crossdeep is a much more recent contact; purely by virtue of constantly running into each other, as the elderly Kaldorei was busying himself with cataloguing the human lands for a personal project while she kept running various more or less shady errands in-between more pressing missions.
-- Has recently acquired something of a travelling and combat companion in the form of a taciturn (but nevertheless very familiar) human Death Knight; an acquaintance of Pterneldan as well.
-- The Cataclysm and the events leading up to it have served further to knit Tuan increasingly close to Pterneldan's eclectic family and circle of friends ...
1 -- First War
3 (approx.) – Tuan is born to a Stormwind merchant and his wife 4 (approx.) – Tuan's parents flee with the migrating refugees to Lordaeron; her father is lost in a freak storm during the journey across the Great Sea; her mother remarries a Stormwind soldier who comforts her during the remainder of the trip
6 -- Second War – Tuan's stepfather is called to arms, eventually reported K.I.A., causing her mother to wither away in grief – Tuan's mother is killed as the Horde pushes into Lordaeron and ravages the countryside; Tuan is rescued by clerics evacuating the civilians – While picking through the debris of the destroyed town after the war is over, Tuan finds an odd trinket amidst the soot and ash that she decides to keep …
8 -- Through the Dark Portal – With Stormwind being rebuilt, the Clerics of Northshire install the Northshire Abbey Orphanage; Tuan is taken in alongside numerous other war orphans
10 -- Greymane Wall built
18 -- Third War (Reign of Chaos)
19 -- Frozen Throne
20 - 24 -- The Silence
21 (approx.) – Tuan volunteers in the Northshire training regiment; she lasts barely a season before she is discharged on account of an exponential slew of disciplinary offences
23 (approx.) – Mostly surviving on odd shady deals and the occasional hit job, Tuan is "contacted" by one of SI:7's undercover trainers as he helps her escape a rigged recovery job. She accepts the man's offer to become a full-time Rogue under his tutelage and quickly eases into her new career …
24 (approx.) – Tuan encounters Moon Priest Theluin Moonwhisper in the Stormwind Library during one of her bookhunts. They quickly bond over their mutual fondness for literature, and proceed to cross each others' paths at various intervals over the following seasons – Tuan's rogue training intensifies; she begins to become increasingly embroiled in the growing unrest within Elwynn and the activities of the ascendant crime organisation known only in whispers as the Defias Brotherhood …
25 -- Cycle of Hatred (World of Warcraft) – Tuan's investigations in and around Moonbrook in Westfall become key material in the eventual outing of Edwin VanCleef as the Defias leader (the actual assassination is carried out by a separate group of heroes employed by Captain Stoutmantle of Sentinel Hill) – Now empowered by the espionage wage supplied by SI:7, Tuan quickly takes to the roads and quadruples her travelling mileage within the next season. She makes herself a name as a "reasonably reliable" sell-sword in the Redridge province, throws in her lot with the Night Watch of Duskwood and even travels north to the Dwarven lands, constantly looking for adventure and bounty in equal measure … – She continues to delve into the extent of the Defias' involvements in and around Stormwind, paying a (somewhat tumultuous) visit to the Stockades and pulling a decidedly fast one with a few less scrupulous members of the House of Nobles in the process – While foraging for lost artefacts in the highlands of Arathi on the behest of an anonymous Stormwind lorekeeper, Tuan has her first run-in with the Forsaken of former Lordaeron. Pursuing a Horde courier into the foothills of Hillsbrad, she is confronted for the first time by the sordid history of the northern kingdoms following the devastating Third War. The constant skirmishing between the garrison forces in Southshore and the anarchistic Syndicate prowling the Alterac Mountains provides more than enough opportunity for her to continue her mercenary spiel (inexplicably, she also begins to experience needling migraines, most notably whenever she approaches the shielded ruins of Dalaran …) – Prompted by SI:7 intel, Tuan begins to investigate a sudden upsurge of Dark Iron activity in the Searing Gorge; she quickly allies herself with the outcasts of the Thorium Brotherhood and uses their resources to glean crucial information … Molten Core – Having established herself among the shadier elements of Stormwind as a sort of gopher for discreet and obscure matters, Tuan's next (quite literal) port of call becomes the distant continent of Kalimdor; landing in Auberdine by sea transit, she makes her way through the Kaldorei lands by way of courier jobs, oddball resourcings and the occasional bounty pickup – An out-of-the-way delivery job into the vast expanses of The Barrens introduces her to the Goblin-run merchant port of Ratchet and the unique mentality of this greenskin race and its legendary opportunism - which she duly strikes a cord with … – Her options in Central Kalimdor swiftly exhausted, Tuan takes matters back overseas, arriving in the infamous pirate port of Booty Bay; she adapts like clockwork to the racuous camaraderie and wastes little to no time making herself indispensable to the multitude of more or less illustrious characters scrambling to make the most out of the choking jungles of Stranglethorn in as short a time as possible … – Befriending a group of wayward Stormwind rebels encamped on the northern border of the expansive jungle turns out something of a wake-up call as she becomes entangled in their desperate seesaw guerilla war against a crazed former leader; wrapping up her various business agreements, she eventually makes her way back to more civilised lands and undertakings – Finally returned to Stormwind, Tuan is very discreetly contacted and briefed on a highly delicate matter regarding a diplomat gone missing … Fall of Nefarian (Blackwing Lair) – Having spent the remainder of the season running errands and escorts to various Dwarven digsites and excavations, Tuan finds herself unexpectedly contacted by her old Kaldorei acquaintance, Theluin Moonwhisper, who duly puts her to work researching an ancient, ascendant terror deep within the bowels of Kalimdor's soil; the resulting footwork takes her nearly across the entire length and breadth of the continent (although her new employer's schedule is stringent, she still manages to make a fair killing on the near-constant, ear-splitting action of the ramshackle racing establishment in the Shimmering Flats; and while provisioning in the ragtag merchant town of Gadgetzan in the blistering Tanaris desert, she takes a distinct shining to the goblin-specific branch of engineering) – Carefully instructed by Theluin, Tuan also travels to Feathermoon Stronghold off the coast of Feralas to contact a certain Quintis Jonespyre regarding a strange and exceedingly rare type of seed … – It is also during this period that she acquaints herself to the Alliance stronghold of Theramore and its young mageocrat leader, along with the tenuous diplomacy pact being gingerly upheld between Jaina Proudmoore and the Orcish Warchief, Thrall; for the sake of maintaining her espionage wage, she continues to poke around for Defias activity and stumbles upon a new and disturbing development … Gates of Ahn'Qiraj – Once more left to her own devices, Tuan spends a few weeks running simpler errands in and around Stormwind until the SI:7 decides to collect a few remaining debts: in the form of an extended investigative stint deep into the corrupted territory of former Lordaeron, now known simply as the Plaguelands. Exactly what the mission entails is never made public, let alone its degree of success; aside from the simple observation that the intrepid she-rogue does indeed return alive and a number of scars richer - physical and otherwise … – Tuan continues to travel haphazardly across both Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms for the sake of income, from running eclectic (and often explosive) repair jobs in the Goblin town of Everlook in Winterspring, to carrying out provision escorts to Nethergarde Keep overlooking the dormant Dark Portal (the latter which is a constant source of aggravation, as the fortification's proximity to the massive edifice causes her relentless migraines …) Necropolis and the First Scourge Invasion (Naxxramas) Second Opening of the Dark Portal – Yet another supply transport to Nethergarde complete, Tuan is caught in the crossfire when the Dark Portal is torn open by Lord Kazzak. As the Argent Dawn troops stationed in the area mobilise to stem the ensuing demonic tide, she scrambles to safety by way of a master-less War Gryphon to report the situation to the higher-ups in Stormwind - most notably her old Kaldorei friend, who finds just enough strings to pull to avert a complete disaster … – In the week immediately following the Dark Portal's opening, Tuan continues to lend provisional support to the Argent Dawn; once the proper military organisation is in place, she quickly returns to her vagabonding state of affairs
26 -- Burning Crusade – Having witnessed the Exodar's momentuous atmospheric entry while bunking in Everlook, Tuan returns to Stormwind just in time to be contacted by the SI:7 regarding an Alliance fleet which for undisclosed reasons was bound for that part of the Veiled Sea. Following the leads of the fleet's provisioning first in Theramore and later Auberdine, Tuan hitches a ride with the Night Elven vessel Elune's Blessing and arrives on an Azuremyst in shambles. She makes contact with the stranded Admiral of the wayward fleet and quickly unearths the far-reaching political intrigue buried beneath the fleet's peculiar destination and its eventual fate … – Rather than immediately reporting back to her employers, Tuan allows her opportunism to get the better of her and swiftly makes her way across the two wreckage-strewn isles, exploring and lending a hand where she so chooses (for reasons not even she is entirely sure of, she doggedly refuses to enter the Exodar itself despite the hospitality of the blue-skinned strangers) – Eventually delivering her findings, she is allotted the (in her mind highly dubious) honour of continuing the investigation into Outlands itself, given her "success thus far" and the "distinctly volatile accusation inherent in the situation". Silently dreading having to confront the Dark Portal, Tuan learns of a reinforcement dispatch being accompanied by her old Kaldorei friend Theluin and decides to tag along … – Of Light and Void: As the dispatch sets up camp for the night in Darkshire, Tuan encounters a certain Paladin named Eleazar who has been summoned to join the dispatch due to the significant presence of Draenei in the ranks and Eleazar's extensive knowledge in foreign languages. They quickly proceed to bond over a common interest in literature as the journey carries on, further cementing an odd form of friendship when Tuan's old headache problem makes itself reminded during a momentary respite at the Nethergarde Keep in preparation for the final leg into Outlands itself … – One singularily harrowing transition through the Dark Portal later, the dispatch joins forces with the main Alliance command in the immediate area. Constantly wracked by endless migraines, Tuan is left to fend for herself within the confines of Honor Hold as Eli and Theluin are required to attend to the diplomatic considerations of the dignitaries that the dispatch was accompanying. Dragged along on an escorting mission as the Draenei Ambassador from the dispatch disembarks with his aides on a pilgrimage to the infamous Path of Glory, Tuan and her two companions narrowly manage to stave off an opportune Fel Orc ambush from the nearby Citadel; in the process, Tuan virtually mana-drains the Orc Warlock that orchestrated the ambush to death - the exchange that follows with the Draenei Ambassador leaves her friends in quiet doubt as to what exactly the she-rogue is capable of … – Her renown among the Sons of Lothar having skyrocketed after her impromptu heroics on the Path of Glory, Commander Danath Trollbane personally requests Tuan to scout out the Citadel itself. Bringing Theluin and Eli along to "cover her rear while she snoops", the trio proceeds to discover the full extent of the veritable Fel Orc factory hidden within the Citadel's dark dungeon halls; they dispose of several of the nascent reinforcements, along with the various masterminds running the grisly operation, and uncover the source of the Fel Orcs' new, demonic ferocity - the Pit Lord Magtheridon, held captive on none other than Illidan the Betrayer's orders … [to be expanded] Siege of the Black Temple Revelations in Tempest Keep Shattered Sun Offensive Fury of the Sunwell Unmasking Onyxia (The Return of King Wrynn) The Second Scourge Invasion 27 -- Wrath of the Lich King [to be filled in] Siege of Light's Hope/Light of the Dawn Tragedy at the Wrathgate The Nexus War Ulduar The Argent Tournament Fall of the Lich King
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A fascination with bladed combat that grew over time, coming to the fore when she volunteered in the Goldshire training regiments in her late teens. (Her time in the military didn't last long.)
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