Shanura

Physical Traits
Shanura was similar to your average female in most ways, being a sensible weight and standing a few inches over five foot. She had some muscle on her frame, and some very faint scars on her neck. Her face was well-proportioned and free from heavy damage, although it was clear that something was slowly taking it's toll on her. Not smiling so often anymore, she had dark lines under her eyes and her flicky hair was wilder than ever.

Although still the most comfortable in light fabric armour, some hard training means she can now wield a fair-sized mace and wear a decent set of armour. And despite the very warm weather, she was always in long-sleeved clothes and a pair of gloves.

Armour
Shanura's robe was much more resillient than the last few armour sets she had owned, with a layer of chainmail and a few plate sheets between layers of heavy woven cloth. She wore a headpiece to keep her hair out of the way, and less often, a pair of red goggles to protect her eyes. Her shoulderguards were large and heavy things, good for protecting her head and neck as well as her upper body. They did however, slow her down when coupled with the swinging of a heavy weapon. When asked about the peculiar design, Shanura always says there's a meaning to them. She has never been heard to specify, though.

Occupation
Shanura is currently Captain and Head Medic of the Stormwind Guard, now that her husband Herius has retired. Instead of the gnomish gadgets she used to experiment with, she now spends her spare time training. She prefers the night-shift, and is now well-practised at staying awake through a triple-shift.

Although originally joining when she was just a jobless housewife, Shanura now considers the job to be one of the biggest parts of her life.



Family
After her first marriage didn't work out, Shanura re-married and is now currently living with Herius in Nagrand. Her father's identity is unknown to her, and her mother is still alive and was living in Southshore until the forsaken moved in. Although she can't visit often, the two of them write very long letters filled with useless gossip to each other every month without fail.

Family Background
Clueless about anybody except her own mother, Shanura is completely oblivious that she is distantly related to her long-time enemy Sweeney Rasmussen, who is her mother's cousin.

The first family members of note are Timothy and Richard Rasmussen, identical twins destined to lead the noble Rasmussen family together. However, Richard began to court the daughter of the local coffin-maker Isabel Youngmay in secret, and fancied himself in love with her. Given the choice to stop seeing the woman, he instead packed his things and fled Gilneas with her on a ship.

The couple's love was to be short-lived, and the other Rasmussens only discovered Richard had left when they were told of a shipwreck out at sea. His name had been on the register and his body had not been recovered. Distraught, Richard's twin snatched the register to see for himself... And saw that Isabel Youngmay had survived.

Blaming the peasant woman on his brother's death, Timothy went mad with grief and assumed his brother's identity. Now unfit to rule the household, he left Gilneas to hunt Isabel down. It is thought that he is responsible for Isabel's death. But when he turned on the child Isabel had been pregnant with at the time of the shipwreck, he couldn't bear to kill the girl who looked so similar to his brother. He has not been seen since.

That child - Eva Youngmay - became one of the nursery maids to a well-off house. This woman would go on to give birth to Shanura in the future.

Personal Background
Shanura grew up with her mother in Elwynn forest, and they were both poor but happy. She learnt how to sew, and worked odd-jobs until the age of sixteen, when she began to train as a priest. After her sheltered peasant lifestyle in the forest, Shanura muddled along and eventually got her bearings, discovering her fascination with technology and magic as she went. From there, Shanura's re-tellings of her life get even vaguer, and entire portions are skimmed over completely. She prefers to skip straight to to part where she joined the Guard, and distract people with tales of her guard-related experiences. If she does ever speak of the past, it is usually referred to as "The Old Days."

Criminal Record
Shanura flat-out refuses to talk about it unless it's somebody she trusts, but has recently come to the decision that it all happened for a reason - To prepare her for the future. She thinks it's worked.

Personality
After the events following Lillian North and her execution, Shanura has been prone to mood swings on odd occasions, and it was never certain what set them off. Most of the time she manages to keep a cool head and her smile fixed, but never hesitates to be strict or blunt on-duty if needs be. Back to her efficient and polite self with citizens, she had also learnt how to dismiss a person when asking what was troubling her faster than ever, which was something she had never been able to do before. Wheras she had once liked to talk a lot, she was keeping herself to herself more and more.



Random points of interest

 * She really likes mushy romance novels, although she won't admit it anymore.


 * Being a very sentimental person at heart, Shanura has half a dozen necklaces of random colours and types around her neck along with the other apparently pointless things she carries round.


 * After being denied everything from lack of money as a child, Shanura had a childish streak, which has recently died out. Her birthday present request for her ex- husband was a paper zepplin, which is one of her most prized possesions.


 * Another effect from her childhood is her warped relationship with clothes - After wearing recycled sheets her entire life, Shanura can't wear anything less than a hugely expensive, tailored robe now that she has the money for it.


 * She likes to give mounts and other creatures names, usually unsuitable. Her mechanostrider is called 'Jeremy', and the two gryphons outside her old house are named 'Percy' and 'Mrs. Percy' respectively.

Jeremy
Shanura's beloved mechanostrider. A hand-me-down from an engineering friend, Shanura used to speak very fondly about (And to) Jeremy, until he began to fall to pieces. After breaking beyond repair, Shanura has placed the mechanostrider in permanent storage as she can't quite bring herself to scrap it.

Turalyon II
Shanura's armoured gryphon. Although she would have chosen a different name, Herius had already gotten round to naming the creature, and the habit stuck while she was trying to think of something else. The 'Two' is normally never used, as Shanura's gryphon has a different shade of armour to Herius's (The original Turalyon), so they can easily be told apart. Efficient and loyal, he would always be close by and appear when signalled. By the way the gryphon looked after the egg that would later hatch into Bert, Turalyon II was also quite a woman at heart.

Bert
The child Shanura never had. Being a soft touch when it came to animals (Especially cute ones), Shanura couldn't bear to leave an unhatched egg to fend for itself. After a long time of keeping it warm and looked-after with the help of Turalyon II, Bert finally hatched and Shanura was thrilled. Constantly grumpy-looking but friendly at heart, the gryphon loved nothing more than to chew all of Shanura's important paperwork and the hair of people he liked. She loved to spoil him rotten, letting Bert sleep on the bed and feeding him snacks. She also treated him more like a child than a gryphon, and enjoyed sitting him down in her lap to read her old children's books to him. He seemed to enjoy it too, trying to turn the pages himself. Or maybe he was just trying to eat them.