Fae

Name
Ms Fae Leafrunner (although she recently changed her surname to Ratbane)

Physical Traits
A tall, slightly bony night elf girl who has barely reached adulthood. She always looks extremely nervous and guilty and gnaws at her fingernails and bottom lip constantly. Her hair is turquoise, wispy, and hacked short. She speaks with a brash and distinct Stormwind gutternipe accent which sets her apart from other elves. She previously dressed in the tattered clothing of an urchin, but has recently bought herself some clothing more befitting of a young lady. Fae spends large amounts of time in cat form and can be recognised as a large, shiny black panther with calculating yellow eyes.

Race and Class
Female Night elf druid

Guild
None

Occupation
Ex rat catcher. Ex singer. Currently unemployed.

Family
None. Only daughter of Riviti and Edoar Leafrunner, who both died in the Third War. Riviti was a music teacher, and Edoar a maker of lyres and violins. Has a very odd cousin, whereabouts unknown. The small Leafrunner clan were regarded as eccentrics by other elves and mainly kept to themselves. The Leafrunner family crest is a silver hare against an oak leaf.

Background
Taught how to sing and play Elven violin to a high level of skill by her mother. After the death of her parents, Fae was looked after by the Cenarion Circle in Darnassus and began initial training as a druid. However, her rebellious streak coupled with the stifling and restrictive ways of elven society caused her to run away to seek her fortune in the human lands. Blessed with a beautiful singing voice, Fae thought that she could become successful in Stormwind as an entertainer, and began the long and perillous journey as soon as she was able. As she crossed the Wetlands, she was attacked by murlocs and would have died had it not been for the intervention of a Forsaken witch. Fae woke up on the path and continued to Stormwind, trying to put the experience from her mind. When she got there, however, she found her dreams crashing around her ears. Stormwind was chock full of pretty, bouncy, flirty, skantily clad night elves, dancing on post boxes, bar room tables, on the altar of the Cathedral. They didn't need one more. Crestfallen, Fae shacked up with the first lout that would give her the time of day.

Fae soon began having terrible nightmares and was haunted by a whispering voice. She began having problems controlling her shapeshifting, and the loutish boyfriend flipped out when she transformed into a bear at an intimate moment. He left her, and later went stark raving mad, jumped in the canal and got eaten by a sewer beast.

Fae slumped into a deep depression. Other elves thought she was weird and slightly disgusting, as in bear form she would behave in a most embarassing fashion. Utterly miserable, suicide became a more and more appealing option. After a half-hearted attempt at prostitution went horribly wrong, she walked to the Stormwind bridge late at night and prepared to throw herself off, but the voice in her head stopped her.

Introducing itself as the voice of the witch who had saved her, the voice ordered Fae into the servitude of Esme Underwood, Godmother of the Villains. Both tempting her and terrorizing her in equal measures, Esme enslaved the gullible young girl and used magic to rob her of her singing voice, leaving her with the heavily accented Stormwind twang she has to this day.

Criminal Record
Spying and treachery.

Personal Notes
Fae is extremely young and has a profound lack of confidence. She is naive and not very well educated. She is also lonely and craves kindness and is looking for someone to take care of her. This makes her extremely easy to terrorize, trick, or manipulate. Despite all this, Fae has found friends in Stormwind and is a chirpy, sweet, often funny girl, and completely at odds with most other night elves. She is a prodigious musician and can play most stringed intruments, although she specialises in the violin. She has also composed several pieces of music, including an intrumental piece called 'The Sewer Beast Ate My Lover'.

Current Status
Currently being consumed by a powerful curse, causing her to slowly and painfully waste away. She is bed ridden in Ironforge under the care of Berdrin Stormspanner And Teliviel TarShaila