Aldraen Miller

This is an Alter-Ego Alt of Kaliv.

Name
Full name: Aldraen Miller

Race and Class
IC: Human Explorer

OOC: Lv 80 Human Rogue

Guild
IC, Aldraen is a member of the Explorer's Guild. OOC, being an Alter-Ego Alt of Kaliv, he is member of The Dark Embrace, though this has nothing to do with Aldraen in any way.

Physical Traits
Aldraen isnt very muscular, but his active work and training in the field has given him a fit body. His hair has a blonde, quite bleak tone and is and quite long, reaching his shoulders. It could become something beautiful is he ever took the time to care for it, which he doesnt (except the most basic). Thus, his hair is very tangled and dirty most of the time. The face is quite standard for a human. The cheek bones are smoothly drawn, giving the face a gentle look. His eyes are bright green, and Aldraen's mouth usually carries a smile.

He prefers to wear his leisure clothes most of the time. They are made out ofwoolen cloth, colored white and purple, and look like a dwarven cut. They are, in fact, dwarven-made. Aldraen wears them mostly out of comfor and old habits. He has lately been wearing his other set of clothing, his working clothes, more and more. He usually doesnt like wearing them. This is because they are made for protection in battle, and have been put to the test many times. As Aldraen isnt fond of bloodshed, he dislikes the association his working clothes carry with them. They are made out of tough brown leather and fur. The set is made for being practical in all situations in the field, like fighting, crawling through ruins and trudging trough through environment. Clothes other than the ones designed for the purpose would quickly be worn out.

Fighting Skills
One of Aldraen's biggest dislikings is to kill and to fight, but his work as an Explorer brings him to many hostile environments. Thus, he is very much able to defend himself. Aldraen mainly fights using daggers. His pair of knives are crafted using Northrend ores, by a blacksmith in Valgarde. Aldraen is also quite skilled at fighting with swords. His fighting style with swords are one very similar to fencing, but heavily influenced by several dwarven styles of combat. This is because he picked up training himself for survival during the time in Ironforge during the Second War.

Occupation
OOC: Skinner (Max Skill) and Leatherworker (330 Skill, skilling it up is a bitch).

IC: Explorer of the Explorer's League

Family
Mother: Sarah Tanner, alive and living in Searing Gorge.

Father: John Miller, dead.

Background
Aldraen was born in the summertime in Eastvale Logging Camp, Elwynn Forest. He was named after his great grandfather. As he grew older, his father wanted him to follow in his footsteps an learn to hunt, and Aldraen did as his father told him to out his respect for his father. Miller had a tough drinking habit (not a drunkard habit). Whenever he went to the bottle he'd go bitter and angry, which often went out over Aldraen and his mother. Aldraen was fond of his father though the habit of drinking. As Aldraen went along with his father, training his aim with the bow, he could never enjoy the thrill of the hunt or the kill. To put his thoughts in other ways than hunting, he focused his energy on his other interests, which was reading anything he could get his hands on, and learning anything he would be taught. As he grew older, he joined his father on the hunting trips as a real hunter, despite how much he hated it. After half-a-year as a hunter, his father died in a hunting accident. Aldraen grieved for his father, but it was more for the loss of his father than for the loss of his fatherly idol.

Over the time of a few months, Aldraen developed a subtle crush on a girl who were the foreman's daughter, named Ciwen Renn, but he never said anything due to shyness and bad self-esteem. He settled with watching her from a distance. Ciwen had a slight talent for Arcane magic, so her parents financed her education in Stormwind to allow her to hone her skills in the rare subject. She moved out of the the Eastvale Camp to the big city, and began her study as an apprentice of the Art.

Aldraen kept on his work at the mill, still feeling for Ciwen in her absence. Half a year later though, Ciwen was robbed and killed by a band of thugs at nighttime. When word reached Aldraen, he spiraled into a mournful depression that lasted for a quite long time. He wouldnt listen to those around him and his days passed in monotomy, untill the day he emerged out of his saddened state and pulled himself together again. He decided that he couldnt stay around in the Logging Camp anymore, that it was simply a too small piece of the world to house what he sought, and if to follow his passion for knowledge, he'd have to take his leave. He took farewell of his mother and traveled to Stormwind City in order to follow his dreams to see the world. In Stormwind, Aldraen got a work as assistant for a mage and handled his tomes and volumes, a job Aldraen enjoyed very much. Through it, he earned enough money for a living. In the city he also befriended a dwarven member of the Explorer's League, named Desin Deepiron. This sparked the young man's interest in the organization that what it stood for. After about a year's time in Stormwind, Aldraen accompanied Desin to Ironforge. There, his friend recommended him to be recruited into the League. Aldraen then faced the standard tests and trials along with a group of other picked recruits. He passed the trial and became a Prospector of the League. It was around this time the First War started as the orcs came through the Dark Portal. Aldraen was safe from tragedies and bloodshed of the war up in Ironforge. Being no fighter, he didnt volounteer to join the forces battling, and being up in Ironforge, he wasnt drawn in. As the Second War erupted, the Ironforge dwarves joined the Alliance along with the gnomes and thus sent their forces to bolster those of the humans'. As the Horde assault started, the dwarven and gnomish forces were outnumbered and defeated, and then sealed themselves off inside Ironforge. Aldraen spent the time of the Second War inside Ironforge, protected from the orcish army. He used the time aiding refugees, studying and reading as much as he possibly could from the library of the Explorer's League. At the end of the war, Aldraen didn't return to Stormwind. In the aftermatch, he commenced his career as a Prospector. The following years Aldraen spent with work inside the organization. Slowly but steadily he rose through ranks with his passion for his work and an interest for everything between heaven and earth, going from Prospector to Journeyman, and after that, becoming a full-fledged Explorer. Since then, Aldraen has used all his time to discover unknown places and help add more knowledge to the libraries of the League.

Criminal Record
Aldraen hasn't commited very much crime in his life, but he has been arrested for assault once and taken in for a bar fight.

Notes and Extra Information
Aldraen is very catious when it comes to alcohol, knowing what it did to his father. When drinking though, for company's sake, he prefers wine.

His work is the passion of his life. He almost never takes any time off from his work in archeology. In the subject, his favorite areas are Titan, Night Elven and Troll history, in that order. One of his biggest dreams is to unveil the full story of the Makers.

Current Status
Recovering from a time of sickness in the Ghoul Fever. Being treated by his friend, Kenelas, in Aldor Rise in Shattrath.