Auren

Name
Auren Iisha (Full name Lady Aurenata Iishanihu Leafrunner)

Physical Traits
Auren has the bearing of a Highborne lady with the battle scars and thousand yard stare of a hardened warrior. Extensive black and red, glyph-like tattoos cover her arms, back and neck. Her black hair is pinned back in a tight bun and her face is as smooth and expressionless as a mask. When not in her Blood Knight uniform, Auren wears a long red, silk kimono. She carries a long, curved katana, the Grief Blade, at all times and is usually followed everywhere by a Mana Wyrm whom Auren refers to as Shmee.

Race and Class
Female Sin'dorei Blood Knight (Paladin). Former ranger.

Guild
Unspeakable Villainy.

Occupation
Training as part of the Blood Knight order. Is currently on a retainer fee from Esme Underwood to ensure that the holdings of the Forsaken Business Association go smoothly in Silvermoon. Will hire her blade out to those who seek a warrior.

Family
Fae Leafrunner- Distant night elf relative Malphazzar/Malfazzar Leafrunner- Distant night elf relative. Shmee- A mana wyrm and Auren's only true friend.

Background
For many years Aurenata Iishanihu Leafrunner served Quel'Thelas bravely and diligently as a Ranger under the command of Sylvanas Windrunner. However, when Arthas and the Scourge beseiged the city, she lost her nerve when she saw the carnage unfold and fled the battle, escaping out to sea on a small boat as Silvermoon was lain waste to. Her boat later washed up on the shores of the Wetlands and Aurenata disappreared into the dwarven and southern human kingdoms to live the lonely life of a masterless warrior. Lady Leafrunner never forgave herself for the extreme act of cowardice she had commited and abandoned her Ranger's bow and her former name- going instead under the simple name of Auren Iisha. She vowed to redeem herself and live a life of honour and simplicity, and covered her body in glyphs to ward of evil and bolster her strength. When word reached her that Silvermoon was being rebuilt and that a new order of Knights was rising in the city, Auren travelled back to Quel'Thelas, accompanied by a small white hare. The hare mysteriously vanished when she reached the borders of the knigdom and was replaced by a mana wyrm. Auren swore loyalty to the Blood Knights and began her initiate training immediately.

Family Background
The Leafrunners were once a large and proud Kaldorei House, but has been in decline since the Great Sundering. At the time of Queen Azshara's rule, they were renowned as great artists, musicians and vocalists who once served to entertain the Highborne. After the Sundering, the Leafrunners renounced the arcane practises of the High Elves and turned to druidism, but were treated with suspicion by other Night Elves. Many members of the House ended up leaving Kalimdor for Quel'Thelas. Auren's grandparents were two of these Leafrunners. The family abandoned it's heritage as artists and instead took up swords and bow to defend the High Elf kingdom from the enemies on its borders. Auren was the heir to the family and the last of the Leafrunner Rangers.

Criminal Record
Desertion.

Personal Notes
Auren is a master of self-control and discipline and tries to deal with her racial magic-addiction through meditation, prayer and acts of self harm. She is privately horrified by several elements of Silvermoon society- its pampered, spoiled nobles, the dispassionate treatment of the Wretched, and the decadence in a city which only a few years previously was brought to its knees by the armies of the Scourge. She is also appalled by the cruelty and torture inflicted on the naaru from which the Blood Knights draw their powers, but feels that wielding this power is the best way to redeem herself and help her people. She becomes very angry is anyone were to suggest she were a coward. Her previous identity is unknown to Silvermoon society.

Current Status
Coming to terms with her her powers and with returning to her home city after five years of self imposed exile.