Aleithia

Name
Miss Aleithia Zoi Stormshadow

Physical Traits
Aleithia looks, and seems, very young. Although almost as tall as other Night Elf women, she appears to be more an adolescent than an adult, and is clearly a child by the reckoning of Night Elves. She is lively and playful, but also seems inattentive at times. She tends to look a little scruffy, and her face is frequently dirty and scratched. Like most Night Elves, but unlike most druids, she has silver eyes. When speaking Darnassian, she has a pronounced Darkshore accent, but she speaks Common like a native of Stormwind.

Race and Class
Night Elf Druid.

Guild
The Cenarion Guardians

Occupation
Scout for the Cenarion Guardians, adventurer and freebooter. Also practices leatherworking.

Family
Parents dead; younger brother (Isxiros) studying comparative theology, mostly in Stormwind and at the Exodar.

Background
Aleithia grew up in Auberdine with her mother, who was a Sentinel and a member of the Cenarion Guardians. Her father, a Druid, and also a Guardian, visited relatively frequently, and they often travelled to Nighthaven together to visit other friends and relatives. At a very early age, in the care of her mother (who was serving as a bodyguard) she was one of the first Night Elves to visit Stormwind, where the nobility were enchanted by "this delightful little elven girl". She retains an affection for Stormwind to this day. At the time of the Third War, she was still physically in early adolescence, and was sent away to safety while her parents went to fight, and die, at Mount Hyjal.

After the war, the Sentinels took charge of her, and decided to send her to a school for talented future priestesses in Darnassus, run by the Sisters of Elune. Aleithia enjoyed learning healing magic, and had a quick mind for ancient literature and the wisdom of Elune, but she hated the rigidity and iron discipline of the school, and resented her teachers' assumption that as a mere child she could have no ideas of any value. Over time she also became aware of the "wrongness" of Teldrassil, and became increasingly disturbed by the atmosphere of Darnassus. She twice applied for permission to leave the school and return to Nighthaven, but was refused, both by the Sisters and by Fandral Staghelm, whom she still resents as a consequence. Finally, after almost three years at the school, she fled, becoming one of the few people to have survived climbing down the side of Teldrassil, and with the help of her childhood friend "uncle" Revenanto, she escaped to Nighthaven.

In Nighthaven she was fostered by her father's friend, Loganaar, and in his home quickly picked up the fundamentals of Druidic magic. He took her along on one of his visits to Malfurion Stormrage, and the ancient druid showed an interest in her, asking "who is this hot little flame?", and remarking to Loganaar, "this one burns brightly." Aleithia typically recounts this conversation as "Shan'do Stormrage said I was hot."

Aleithia was impertinent enough to directly ask Stormrage's permission to begin training as a Druid; to the astonishment of all present, he assented, and Aleithia became one of the youngest novice Druids in history. Loganaar continued to take responsibility for her upbringing, and within remarkably few years, she mastered the essentials of the Druid's craft. Seeing that she was capable of taking care of herself, Loganaar reluctantly agreed to her fervent wish to travel and see the world.

Personal Notes
Aleithia really is very young, and has to tolerate most other Night Elves treating her as a child, which of course, by their standards, she is. For people of other races she may actually be the youngest night elf they have ever seen, and is often regarded as something of a curiosity. As a consequence she can be rather impatient, and even prickly, when her youth and inexperience are mentioned. She is in fact very "grown-up" for her age, and has an irreverent, sometimes raucous sense of humour which many of her elders find shocking. She has nothing but sarcasm for those who, in her view, take themselves too seriously, and although she secretly regards some elder Night Elves, especially Druids, with an awe approaching hero-worship, she covers this up by being even more cocky with them. Luckily, she is charming and polite enough that she usually gets away with it.

Current Status
Busy running errands for the Cenarion Guardians, and continuing her on-the-job training as a Druid.