Zhuyan (Main timeline)

Character name: Zhuyan
Alias: Plagueforge (self-given title); Forgemaster.
Gender: Female
Age: Middle aged. by draenei standards
Race: Draenei
Class: Death Knight
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Faction: Scourge

Birth region: Oshu'gun
Specific area/town: N/A
Family: Nihilia (daughter); Devaaj(son); Glalana(daughter); Raliir (her lover Deceased)
Known enemies: The alliance, the horde and any light wielder or enemy of the scourge. Hostile to Bolvar Scourge.
Known Allies: Zander Glaciera, Althalos, Dyone and Zalon are the pepole she most bound with, but as she still somewhat behave like the vindicator she used to be, anyone that fights at her side is treated like an always-knew brother or sister that she holds dear and close.

Description: Beneath her hood it's hidden a most disgusting sight. Her flesh is rotting apart, revealing the white bones beneath the skin in the area of her left eye, which still works, even if it cannot blink anymore due the decay and previus battles. Her right eye appears fine, for an undead. Her skin is slowly turning green, reaching the next step of a corpse decay. She is surounded by fumes of plague and insects constantly feasts on her as a swarm and parasites, following her comands in battle. Her armor does not shine, begin dirty of smelly green oozes. Her mace is covered in filth aswell, plaguing anyone that get's touched by it.

The mentioned rot around the left eye extended to her upper lip in that area, making it fall and revealing a tiny amount of teeths. Her breath and plague smokes are not deadly by themselfes, but still most unpleasant for the living to be around to.

The tentacles on her face are so plagued and diseased that moves on their own.

Personality: A very militaristic and stubborn draenei. Former vindicator, she still follows the old doctrines she used to respect deeply, but on a much more twisted end. As mentioned, she still follow the behave code of her vindicator life, this means that she has a deep respect for those who follow her, she protects them, and bound with them like friends. Even if the very concept of friendship and love is now twisted and dulled by undeath, she still would very much fight in the frontlines for them and be the meat shiled of those who prey with her. With the unproven, however, she is distant and severe, punishing any mistake, correcting them out of their own flaws regardless of her begin right by fact or not. She still worship the now dead-for-good Arthas as the dark lord, the prophet she think Velen failed to be. Thus she reject Bolvar comands and still waits Kel'thuzad return. To the hostiles, she is outright brutal. Due her belives, she consider her enemies as misguided and evil. She will thus purge them like a paladin does with demon cultists.

Depsite all of this, she is caring and motherly to others, even if she wont show it clear on the outside. She has a deep faith into the "fact" that life is evil, a source of confusion, lust and pointless violence and conflict among brothers, the very source of all these defects that she simply define as "chaos". Pepole can, however, be cleansed of this disorder.

With undeath.

To her, undeath is the fixing of all sentient begins. Where life confuses and boils into the extreme, death calms and clean from doubt. This is her philosophy, and she personally owe this "illumination" to the scourge, which she see as a crusade of purification of all azeroth into the land of the just. If you get resurrected by Zhuyan, it means she deeply believe that you are a good person, not a minion. Mindless zombies are of course, an expetion, as these are not sentient or aware of anything. Her way to follow the shadow can be, sometimes, selfless as she takes any chance she gets to make sermons about her way of thinking, doing her best to "illuminate" those who see the disorder they have in their heart, this is what Zhuyan un-lives for.

Not all undeads are, however, saints to her. Most of them actually strive for other kinds of lusts, forsaking the real gift of death. Thus, those who wont follow the doctrines of the scourge, are most likely flawed undeads that still wont let go the flaws they had in life. Her deep hostility for the forsaken is an example to this, she sees them as heretics and betrayers of their own kind.

Under this enlightment, she also worship the unholy decay. To her, there is no shame into showing the process of one's own rot, as it's part of undead "nature" while also begin the most delightful power death gives to it's childs. She thus preserve herself the minimum necessary to still live and fight with efficency. For the rest, she abuse her body as far as she can. Her lungs are nests for the swarm, her stomach a plague brewer and her flesh a warehouse of most variated diseases to experiment on the living. It's all part of her philosophy, she is not even remotely designed to efficently kill other undeads with ease, she only strive to end the chaos that living brings on themself and others, and her body is fully prepared for such.

Such a deep faith for death did not, however, popped out of nothing the moment she was raised again, she actually has a long "relationship" with death, starting back to the great escape from the burning legion. She passed her long youth watching pepole never return from their search of new worlds to call home, and with the constant treat of the burning legion ontop, her time on draenor was also troublesome. The draenei efforts into having their numbers increased was utterly destroyed by the orc corruption, which she lived with a deep involvement as she could not prevent the loss of many friends she had dear to her and the auchenai was overwhelmed with corpses she sometimes personally delivered with utter grief. She barely saved nihilia and herself by that terrible period. All these corpses she could not remove from her dreams, wondering why her kind, such a long-lived and almost ethernal race, had to bury their infants. Whole years passed to mourn and praying for the na'ru to save them once again, only to lose the planet itself. She, however, hidden her sadness and kept fight for the few survivors on azeroth, until she eventually died by scourge hand on northrend .

History: Her parents never personally met Velen the prophet, but like most, they did heard of his warn and decided to follow him as the suddent violence of their former kin revealed itself for what it was: corruption. They followed their renamed race on Oshu'gun with the aid of those who like them rejected the other eredars, and set to travel to the unknow on the ship, in which Zhuyan would later born. Zhuyan was then one of the firsts to born as one of the exiled ones, the draenei, and passed her childhood exploring the ship as much as she could, sometimes to her risk.

Her father were adamant into teaching her what happened on argus, what corruption is, and what was expected from her as the new generation, the hope of the race. Indoctrinated to follow the light ways to their fullest, Zhuyan would begin her vindicator training the moment she was strong enough to lift a mace. A draenei named Raliir were also under training and bound with her. They would playfully sparring with eachothers while dismissed, always aware of what their mission was, and always supporting eachothers. The ship kept on flying for thousands of years, sometimes visiting worlds that, unfortunately, felt discovered by evil and killed the brave explorers. Frustrated but not changed, Zhuyan and Raliir kept on their training, their masters most severe.

After finishing their training, Raliir would finally confess to Zhuyan, forming the deep bound that would later generate Nihilia. Her first centuries of vindicator passed as mother, guardian of a new life. Zhuyan seen this as a beacon of hope for everyone, her included, depsite the losses she suffered during the ship's hard escape.

Oshu'gun finally landed on draenor, and after a couple of years of adaptation and most worried guarding, they would finally settle down almost as if they always were the planet's child, indeed calling it their refuge. The peace, however, did not last.

The legion did found the planet, and tricket the orcs into corruption. The green horde charged the draenei relentlessy, exploiting their former trust and weaknesses. Raliir fought with courage and might, but he was critically wounded and barely survived his first fight in the war. His wound never fully healed, and he could no longer serve as a vindicator. He would not give up, however, and he kept offering his support as an anchorite. This thanks to Zhuyan who performed a little better and managed to save her family.

Others, however, she could not help.

The horde was brutal and swift, they quickly overwhelmed most of the defenses and pushed Zhuyan and her kind further and further into extinction. Durin this most grim period, Zhuyan would personally carry on her shoulders the corpses of many friends, childs, even, to the auchenai to properly offer the rest they deserved. The sight of so many fragile draenei dying, however, only enforced her resolve into protect what was left, and proceeded to quickly  train Nihilia into the vindicator ways the moment she were old enought to begin. The war itself and the second escape to azeroth, however, never allowed them to finish the training properly and according traditions.

Upon landing on azeroth, Nihilia was msot exited of this new world to call home, while Zhuyan were reluctant and skeptic. There was a time when a world looked pure enoguht to be home, and it was found and destroyed. Depsite her liking of the place, she did her best to not let affection grow to the world, expecting to lose it sometime in the future. She, however, never refused to protect azeroth, as her contribution was for the light and for Nihilia to not pass through the trauma of another draenei genocide.

Again, Nihilia loved the local traditions and did her best to be like them, while Zhuyan were distant from the other alliance races and stood true to the vindicator ways and the old traditions, finding them unclean and vulnerable to corruption, even. But under light teachings, she fought at their side protectively.

Years later, the docks of stormwind were open to Northrend to siege. Arthas begin a treat to all living things and she did not hesitate to bid Nihilia and Raliir a sincere farewell before the expedition. Unknowingly, for the last time. As she reached icecrown with the other, many warriors of the light she realised that the scourge were stronger than reported and expcted, but still pressed on bravely, before meeting an abomination she could not beat. Begin crippled and struggling to live with an arrow in her heart, she stared her foe like if it was death itself. She did not lived so long, and fought so much, to die there. She would return to nihilia, and finish her vindicator training, as the proud and adult draenei she designed nihilia to be.

A swing on her forehead opens a gash. Her sight darkens. No more light. No dreams.

She recovers her sight for a moment, in deep mental pain, but the place is different, and she can't tell if time is actually passing. There are other pepole, flying around into place, some screaming others begin apathetically jolly, what this place be? Where is that abomination? "why the soldiers does not react to me..". As she faintly moves into place, a scream is suddently heard. It's so loud that she belives her head is exploding and her screams thunders as the other spirits ignores her fully. She is sucked somewhere and her sight darknes once again.

She hears that scream again, it's too loud to understand it, and she attempt to get a deep breath, failing. There are necromancers around her, but she wont reconise them as evil anymore, her memory wiped by the utter trauma of death and resurrection within few hours. The voice become less louder, until she can understand it.

"Rise, death knight, serve your king"

She would keep hearing arthas voice in her head, like the others, abiding to anything it ask.

The voice, however, stopped after the Battle of Light’s Hope Chapel, in fact breaking any direct control of the lich king. But instead of seeing this as a liberation, she would feel lost. With her memories still to be rediscovered, she only desired of a master to tell her what to unlive for. The first ones to tell her were the freshly formed knights of the ebon blade who were taking all the free death knights with them, the confused Zhuyan too.

Very slowly, however, Zhuyan recovered her lost memories, and with them, her self-awareness. As she lived through all her life again, she began to allucinate about the corpses on draenor, their fragility and her helplessness, this later created her delusions about her worship of death and decay she still hold as true to this day, and it's a primal reason as to why she defected the ebon blade, seeing them as shadow of their former living feelings. instead, she would embrace her destiny, and join the crusade of great purging (one of the many names she gives to the scourge cause). She secretly leaves the ebon hold only to seek the scourge again, this time, joining willingly. Her link to the lich king restored and his voice welcomed as a father talk to his daughter. She returns to northrend for defend her king.

Zhuyan, however, were not deemed strong enough to hold her stand and the scourge officers instead send her into minor tasks such as guarding the cultists operations elsewhere on the continent, depsite utter frustration her life was probably saved by this, as both alliance and horde stormed the king's halls relentless. This operation, however, was not smooth. The alliance assaulted the cultists stand, and it was bound to be burned to ashes. While retreating, Zhuyan would meet Raliir again.

He went in search of her, depsite the risk and his own weakness. He followed the alliance troups as medic and anchorite, and finally found his love, but, to his horror, horribly twisted.
With sadness in his heart, Raliir ultimately decided that it was Zhuyan's duty as vindicator to return to the dead, and let the light purify her tormented spirit. She disagreed, praising her own faith. Both disgusted to what the other had became, they fought. Raliir, of course, could not stand a chance in his crippled state and felt to his death before the alliance troups could save him. His soul eaten by Soulcrusher, her mace, and his body taken for the alliance to bring back to Nihilia and the other draenei on the exodar. Nihilia herself were never informed of who and what killed her father.

Later on, Arthas died, and Zhuyan sank a little deeper into madness. She would stop preserving her body, letting plague and disease breed in her husk. She also began to torture Raliir soul, seeking relief, only to find more memories to haunt her, living through all the death she witnessed on draenor, triggering a first form of her devotion for death and decay.

Some years had passed, during which she traveled alone, helping the scourge she could. Eventually, she met a particular branch of the scourge, named army of the damned (late ron the frozen covenant). She fought for and with them in the name of the scourge and the dark lord, ultimately completing her death knight training, so then promoted as the forgemaster of the unit. During this period she would also find nihilia, but as a slave of the scourge. Zhuyan tortured Nihilia endlessy, scarring her body and mind, before she finally fled from mother's grasp. After many battles and rituals, she was defeated by Jensbringer's troup, and buried in the palguelands. Zander Glaciera, however, managed to resurect himself and Zhuyan, saving both depsite a complication or two.

Today, Zhuyan is still forging runeblades and other weapons for the scourge, aswell as armors. In the plaguelands, she wait for the time of battle to come. May the scourge reunite again under the dark lord's will, she will be there.

Or will she take the initiative int he meantime? Time will tell.


Things you may know about this character:

• She is a zealot walking plague cauldron of filth
  

• Nihilia is her daughter. Zhuyan seems to hate her
  

• She is an experienced Blacksmith, her training in such began since she were very young. She is one of those who knows the secret of scourge runeforgering. She can work with saronite and create soulforges
  

• She has a very, VERY poor sense of orientation, often cause of punishments by her superiors due her team begin lost totally elsewhere on the battlefield
  

• Despite her commanding attitude, she is not very bright and often does reckless mistakes or fails to understand implications
  

Things you may not know about this character:

• She holds her lover soul in her runeblade and tortures him daily
  

• She talks with the ghouls about her day
  

• She think that raising pepole into scourge will save the world
  

• She actually somewhat loves nihilia, but wont forgive her reluctance to become undead.
  

• Her armor is a gift from Althalos Rowan, which she wears like a sacred relic
  

Possible crime record: Heavy abuse of necromancy; Torture of prisoner; Kidnapping; Murder; Deep into cultism; Destruction of private and public propriety; Plagued drinkable waters; Assaulted officers of the light unprovoked; Personally responsible of other little disorders in the plaguelands and the barrens.

Other information: Hope you enjoy the read!

She recently infiltrated the 157°company wild tempest and she is on a constant investigation regarding her scourge ties.
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"She claim to serve the light like she used to in life, yet the way she is, how she fights...something feels off, even for a death knight"

She has been disbarred by the 157°company wild tempest for her heavy abuse of warfare that does not fits with the alliance ethics, laws and norms, along with the end of the investigations on her which resulted with the confirmation of the company suspects on her scourge ties, which are still present and strong.
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"I saw her arguing with the commander. After a while she took her tools and left for the first ship for the eastern kingdoms. i'd say, if pepole even suspect of a scourge death knight, she should have been killed, such mercy will be the end of us..."