Valdreas

Name
Valdreas Thundereye. A very few people try their luck with Val, even fewer get away with it without acquiring an unflattering nickname for their trouble.

Race and Class
Blood Elf Warlock

Physical Traits
Val has the posture of a martial artist, his family's trademark reddish brown hair, and an unusually robust build for a practitioner of magical arts. Age in the 400's. His general manner contains no small amount of smug, arrogant, and casually sardonic.

He tends toward a neat, well-groomed look, favours dark colours, and wears a mildly obscene amount of hand jewellery. This consists of several single-stoned rings, some of which have their stones missing, and a collection of smooth, snug bands around his left wrist, which have no obvious way of being removed short of cutting. He carries a single carefully honed dagger at most times.

The suitably talented may notice traces of demonic magics on him, or that the jewellery is polished steel rather than silver.

Guild
None. Archivist of the Society of Secrets and Antiquities.

Occupation
Valdreas dabbles in most disreputable areas of magic, and makes no bones of it: he generally styles himself alternately as a demonologist, occultist or scholar of Shadow lore (he has sometimes referred to the later as "weeding the useful information from imbecile religious blatherings"). He also dabbles in enchanting, by way of a hobby.

Family
Older sister Gildrath, a driven but scandalously hedonist Blood Knight. She and Val fight like cats and dogs.

Older brother Ventris, a magister gone hunter, the black sheep who actually thinks the Horde and losing the Sunwell is good for his species.

Parents deceased, father with Sunbolt's expedition and mother while fighting the Scourge.

Grandfather Keventrel, a shrewd and moderately influential Magister, the grand patriarch of the family, and a former trustee of the Society.

Background
Once a scrawny kid who was good but never exceptional in arcane studies: this was unacceptable in the Thundereye family, with its standards of excellence. Val dealt with the teasing and taunts of his more talented siblings by developing a talent for sarcasm and veiled insults instead. Gleeful use of this ability has got him into trouble no few times over the centuries: though his sister Gildrath has intervened on his behalf once or twice (generally when an argument at some social event threatened to become a formal duel), it was clearly only because she thought the other guy deserved her fist in his face more than Val did.

Living in the shadow of his siblings got old eventually. Val left Silvermoon roughly two hundred years ago, to find an area in which he could excel: he studied arcane, necromantic and demonic magics in Dalaran, which he later left to pursue particularly innovative practitioners. This is probably where he picked up most of his current arsenal. He has, supposedly, mentioned a teacher, but is remarkably closemouthed on any further details. Rumours attribute this to the teacher being human, a woman or a demon. Obviously all three can't be true and it's quite likely that none of them is.

Val's interest in magic seems straightforward: immediate and personal power. While he's obviously intelligent, inquisitive and very quick on the uptake, he also has a lazy, arrogant and impatient streak a few miles wide. How he's managed any success as a demonologist given that is a mystery -- either he's had the phenomenal luck to not conjure anything out of his league (yet), or the obnoxious dilettante routine isn't as genuine as it seems.

Over the last two centuries, Val has been in Silvermoon rarely, mostly to attend social events and almost always taking it on himself to annoy some righteous type to blows when there. Since his recent return, Val has been meeting with former members of the Society of Secrets and Antiquities, with apprentice magistrix Adona Starfall, and with Ranger-Captain Querathiel Skyfire. The later is particularly unprecedented, as the two seem incapable of communicating without veiled insults.

Family Background
The Thundereye bloodline is old but mildly controversial. Its members are characterised most by their pursuit of excellence in whatever field they've chosen. While a some of them have been exceptional magisters or soldiers, they've also been quick to step off the beaten path when circumstances have changed, and risk has come with the prospect of great rewards. They have a reputation for formidable but carefully controlled tempers, for holding grudges, and for being excessively competitive, especially with each other - as long as it doesn't damage the interests of the family.

Keventrel Thundereye was heavily involved in The Society of Secrets and Antiquities in Sunbolt's day. Since a warwound left him limping with a staff, he was been forced to swear off adventuring, and has instead turned to the internal politics in Silvermoon and domineering his family.

Criminal Record
None, though on record as a practitioner of demonic magics.

Current Status
Travelling, talking to people, and going through the archives of the Society of Secrets and Antiquities in the hopes of finding something useful.

Personal Notes
Information in the profile is rumor, and as such may be grossly inaccurate.