Lina'ven (Azeroth)

Lady Lina'ven Sunglare
Portrait of Lina'ven (Shadowlands-Current) [AI]
Personal Details
Age	528
Birth Date	488 BDP (6312 Y.S.)
Race	Appears as a Sin'dorei
Class	Warlock, Arcanist
Faction	Horde, the Sin'dorei, though she considers herself largely Independant
Roleplay Info
Status	Active
Occupation	Lady of House Sunglare (defunct), Independant Warlock
Location	Currently: in Eastweald Residence: Y'lygari, her home in the Void Former Residence: Ghostlands (although she still considers it her home)

In-Game Screenshot of Lina

Calendar Note

The Azeroth Calendar here uses the After Dark Portal (ADP) system, where Year 0 marks the Dark Portal’s opening, and Year 20 ADP aligns with the Culling of Stratholme during the Third War. The current year is 40 ADP (or 6840 Y.S, Years of the Sunwell). Lina'ven was 508 before the Scourging of Quel'thalas, with her birth year being 488 Before Dark Portal (BDP) or 6312 (Y.S.).

The Northern Kingdom's custom months (e.g., Springtide for March, and Verdantfall for August) overlay this timeline.

Biography

Lina'ven Sunglare, or just commonly known as Lina'ven (or Lina) came from a rich and noble family in Southern Quel'thalas (Ghostlands) known as House Sunglare. They were active for over two millennia, and their golden age was after the Troll Wars. The noble House had influential arcanists, leyline analyzers, enchanters, and they were in the jewelcrafting, rare ore & mineral, and enchanting markets in the southern regions of QT too, which is how they obtained their wealth. While they primarily held influence over part of Southern Quel'thalas, they had a seat in Silvermoon's noble circle, and influence in the surrounding areas of the city - even if they didn't dabble too much into politics.

After Lina'ven was born into the family lineage in 488 BDP (or 6312 Y.S. in the Thalassian calendar), she worked at her family's Enchanting and Jewelcrafting shop in Tranquillien in her early years, and enjoyed a privileged and comfortable lifestyle that her Houses' well over nine-figure income can afford. Even if she didn't get along with some of her siblings, she had good relations with her parents, and did whatever to make them proud. She was eventually sent to Silvermoon to learn arcane magic and become an arcanist, and potentially even the rank of Magister. She attended special classes, and had special and talented tutors and mentors paid for by the deep pockets of House Sunglare. Things went smoothly and were largely uneventful for the next 230 years, where Lina became an Arcanist and was on the path to become a Magister for the Silvermoon Magisters.

300 years ago Lina'ven's parents, the Lord and Lady of House Sunglare disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Members of the family and the House, along with Lina, were devastated and shocked. Especially since the House was now missing a Lord or Lady, or a guiding figure. Lina left Silvermoon and the Magisters to return home to the Houses' estate. Despite numerous and extensive investigation by authorities, no cause was found, and no perpetrators were caught either. Lina believes this was foul play, potentially politically motivated and was no normal disappearance, but Silvermoon shut down investigations quickly after not finding anything of note. Lina quit the Magisters for good, and continued to reside in Southern Quel'thalas. She fell into a slight state of depression, and avoided the public eye as she grieved the disappearance of her parents. However despite her broken heart, she still continued to master the magical arts, just without the help of Silvermoon or the Magisters. While she remained close to the estate - she traveled around Quel'thalas and beyond, looking around libraries and forgotten nooks for tomes of the arcane, forgotten techniques and teachings, and eventually forbidden magic.

There was a lot of internal debate and struggle over who will take over the House, because of the Lord and Ladies' untimely disappearance (presumed death) - there was especially a power struggle between Lina'ven and her siblings. Eventually it was determined Lina'ven was the rightful inheritor of the estate and its assets, and she was pronounced as Lady Sunglare. Lina tried her best to manage the House in her parents' stead, however she was very uncertain and a little worried at first. She was anxious that she wouldn't live up to her parents' expectations, especially since this is a momentous responsibility that suddenly fell on her shoulders. She struggled quite a lot in the beginning, but with support from a couple close friends, she made it through her grieving and difficult times running House Sunglare.

During this time, and despite her new responsibility leading the House, she still focused on her magical studies and goal in becoming a powerful spellcaster like her parents' would've wanted her to. She eventually discovered the existence of shadow magic, which she took a liking to and was infatuated with. So she secretly began to learn this new magic and this was her first step in becoming a shadowmancer (and eventually a warlock). It was mostly because of her internal struggles, her parents suspicious disappearance, and her growing dislike of the Magisters that she pursued dark magic - as well as a desire to become even stronger. Gradually becoming a proficient and advanced arcane & shadow mage.

During the events of the First War Lina didn't think much of the war going on in the human kingdom far south. It wasn't until she looked deeper into events - and how it was aliens from a far off planet invading the kingdom with demonic magic that her interest was piqued.

Appearance

Current: Lina'ven looks like a Thalassian elf, standing at a moderately tall 6'1" (her new body was artificially created by Lina'ven using potent dark magic). She has dark black hair tied in a ponytail, compared to her other looks; where she had lighter hair, and her hair wasn't tied up. She has pale skin. Her eyes are glowing purple from her Void corruption. She has round green earrings on the length of her ears, and she mainly has (lightish) red lipstick and black eyeliner. She has red line tattoos around her arms and shoulders. She also has small demonic horns protruding from her hair as a sign of being a warlock and using Fel magic. And she also bleeds a purple blood. She mainly wears dark clothings; dark purple, black, and greyish robes with a hood around her neck. Most of the time she wears long black gloves, and even a Thalassian red and silver headband (with green gems). She always carries around a long staff; her Shard Scepter. It's made out of enchanted materials, with leather pendants hanging from the head. In its center lies a glowing purple and blue mass in the shape of a shard; the Void Shard. The Shard is chained to the Scepter, which is warded from the touch. It emits powerful, chaotic dark energies from a corrupted world. (Most of the time) when out in public in Quel'thalas, the Scepter changes appearance to an inconspicuous warlock staff; with a demonic skull as its head and small Fel orbs spiraling around it. The auras from the Scepter are greatly suppressed in this form.

Pre-Void: While she generally looked similiar to her current appearance, there are some minor differences. Such as she was shorter (at 5'11"), with some minor differences in facial and bodily structure. Towards the latter half of this period (WoD-Shadowlands) she still had small demonic horns protruding from her hair. She had glowing green eyes from Fel use and exposure (like most Sin'dorei). She had a lighter hair color; a sort of bluish black color. Her hair was shorter in the last quarter of this time (Legion-Shadowlands), but in the first half (Vanilla-Legion) it was longer (as seen in the pictures). She had lightish green tattoos instead of red. She still wore warlock-inspired outfits or robes, but they were lighter in color. In the latter quarter (Legion-Shadowlands) she wore a soft violet face mask that covered the lower half of her face and neck, along with wearing gloves or sleeves that covered her arms and hands. She ended up getting light purple Void taint around her lower face, neck, and left arm/hand, meaning she had to cover up those areas in public out of shame and fear of repercussions. She used a warlock staff that had the same appearance as the inconspicuous staff she uses to mask her Shard Scepter.

Pre-Third War: Her appearance was structurally alike from her Pre-Void look - but she had no demonic horns, and she had light blue eyes of the High Elves. She had slightly curly, long brown hair. And instead of green earrings and decorations, it was blue (or purple) to represent the Quel'dorei. She had different tattoos that were blue. She wore slightly regal and 'noble' outfits to represent her status as the head of House Sunglare - her nobable one being Thalassian blue and brown robes with yellow decorations, with a regal black cloak and long black gloves, and blue and gold shoulderpads glowing red with magic (from enchanted red gems). She wore more jewelery to show her status, and for a staff she used one with a light gold metal (with forest green cloth wrappings) housing that was slotted with three (technically four) floating gems to use as a spell focus: blue, green, and purple (representing the three magic she knew before the Third War: arcane, fel, and shadow). She wanted to hide as much of her use of dark magic as possible, because of her status and reputation within Thalassian society.

Roleplay History

• ((Roleplay history with Lina'ven started in early-mid 2020, during the second-last quarter of the Battle for Azeroth expansion. Has some fanon related lore.))
• Lina'ven was returning to her estate after killing and getting the bodies of murlocs on the coast of the Ghostlands to use in her rituals. Despite the Fourth War going on, and being aligned with the Horde and the Sin'dorei, she couldn't care less about the conflict - and wanted to stay neutral and independant. She would only enter if it threatened the safety of Quel'thalas. When she was almost home, a strange portal opened nearby and two kul tirans popped out, one male and one female. Before she could react, the female viciously and brutally murdered the male, and that's when Lina knew something was wrong. After a quick battle Lina'ven subdues the kul tiran, and brings her to a magically warded cell under her estate (in the prison). After interrogating and divining information out of the kul tiran, Lina determined that she was called Alpia, and she's a malevolent drust spirit out for revenge against kul tirans, and somehow got transported to the Ghostlands from Kul Tiras.
• Alpia was kept in the cell for weeks as Lina uncovered more information, and Alpia was under watch with Lina's demons. She found out the drust spirit took over a kul tiran's body, and the original soul was still trapped in the body. So Lina extracted the original kul tiran's soul with dark magic and placed her in a soul shard, then the soul explained who she is. She's Julia Sterntide, the daughter of Angus Sterntide who Alpia killed. Sometime later when Lina was away, Alpia was secretly using drust magic to weaken the wards of the cell, until eventually she phased right through it. A chase ensued between the demon guarding her and Alpia, but she was eventually able to run out of the underground prison. She was stopped by a powerful barrier around the prison building on the surface, and that's when Lina confronted her, however Alpia used a powerful drust spell to break the barrier leading to her to teleport away to Thros.
• Inbetween this time Lina'ven joined an organization that focused on nurturing diplomatic and peaceful relations between the different factions of Azeroth, mainly the Alliance and Horde. It was something that seemed promising to Lina because she didn't like the constant fighting and conflicts with the Horde and Alliance, thinking it's very foolish and pointless. However with some pressure from the Silvermoon government, Lina'ven slowly withdrew from the guild - because this was in the middle of the faction war.

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  Lina'ven Pre-Void (Legion-Shadowlands) [AI]

  Lina'ven eventually tracked Alpia down in Kul Tiras, and she brought Julia's soul with her to get her body back. On the way they met a tidesage called Leshthiria the Greater, who Lina learns is a friend of Julia. There was a brief misunderstanding when Leshthiria saw Julia's soulshard, but the soul de-escalated things after she explained the situation. Leshthiria joins Lina'ven in hunting for Alpia, and they eventually track her down to an abandoned port. Lina fights the drust spirit, with the tidesage and Lina's trusted voidwalker helping her, where she manages to beat Alpia out of Julia's body. Before Lina had a chance to capture Alpia's soul, a harpy sorcerer (named Shar) and her army appears and saves Alpia's soul. The army overwhelms Lina and so she had to erect a barrier around herself and Leshthiria, eventually having to teleport everyone away, including Julia's body. Everyone except for the voidwalker, who she assumed they would kill. After teleporting everyone to safety, Lina'ven transfers Julia's soul back to her body, and Julia and Leshthiria reunite in person. They thank Lina'ven for her help.
• What Lina didn't know was that her voidwalker wasn't killed and sent back to the Void, but was instead captured by Shar. He was easily persuaded to give up information on Lina'ven in exchange for being set free, which was a huge betrayal for Lina'ven who thought the voidwalker was her most trusted warlock demon ("Demon" in quotes, since Voidwalkers aren't technically demons). Lina'ven went back to the spot where Angus was killed and where his body was and used soul magic to bring his soul back temporarily from the Shadowlands, where he explained what happened prior to exiting the portal, and information on Alpia, and how much of a threat she is to Kul Tiras. Lina'ven promised the man she'd deal with the drust spirit. From this point on Lina and Alpia became bitter and brutal rivals, and they considered each other their worst enemy - their arch-nemsis. They faced off multiple times, while Shar helped Alpia in the background (until Shar was eventually banished to the Shadowlands by Ellienore and Nashlette sometime before Frostwane 35 ADP).
• Sometime later, Lina'ven had thoughts about restoring her House, House Sunglare. She still has her wealth she inherited from the House, however many aspects were still in disrepair. The estate wasn't ready for guests or the public eye as she's been using it as her personal estate where she practices her warlock magic and her rituals. And she's the only one left of her House/family that stayed behind. Plus other issues that needed to be addressed to restore House Sunglare. So after careful consideration, she joined and partnered with another noble House, House Eversun (I forgot the actual name...) located in Eversong, in exchange for them giving aid to rebuilding her own House. She joined their spellcasting division, and quickly found out she'd be working under a Magister, which greatly infuriated Lina'ven. And the two quickly became rivals, and at point they almost fought each other, but they were stopped before it got out of hand. In Silvermoon City she met and became acquainted with a curious vulpera monk, Hikarion Ashi. And despite their very different viewpoints, they considered each other friends.
• A month before Frostwane 35 ADP, Lina'ven was in the Northern Barrens for some business when she encountered a curious someone. She met Swiftroot, a botani tribe leader that resides in the Barrens. They fled Alternate Draenor when the Lightforge attacked, and they sought refugee in our Azeroth. As the two talked, Lina could feel something wasn't right with him. He wasn't evil, but he had strong disdain towards other races for their treatment of wildlife. He had a more traditional and archaic view of life, and Lina'ven disagreed a lot with him. Eventually things got too heated, and Lina annoyed Swiftroot too much, so he lashed out and told her to leave. Lina'ven felt a little spiteful and petty with Swiftroot so she attacked the tribe leader, however he was a tougher opponent than she thought, and he was resistant to Lina's fel magic too. So she soon fled, and Swiftroot vowed to make Lina'ven an enemy of the tribe.

  

  Lina'ven Pre-Void (Vanilla-Legion) [AI]

• Later on Lina'ven returned to the Barrens, this time with Hikarion who agreed to help take on Swiftroot, and found a small grove where the botani tribe leader was in. Using invisibility to sneak through undetected, they found tauren (mainly Grimtotem) kept as slaves, bound and mind controlled with nature magic to tend to the grove. Eventually they confront Swiftroot, where after another argument Lina'ven, Hikari, Ek'bahar (her Shivara demon), and her felhound attack him. Lina primarily used shadow magic to attack Swiftroot, and Hikarion's physical and chi-based attacks were effective. The fight ended when Hikari used a powerful chi-based move, which nearly one shot Swiftroot; the tribe leader barely survived. Lina and Hikari teleport to the Ghostlands with Swiftroot, where she places him in the warded holding cell of her prison.
• A few days go by as Lina'ven decides on what to do with Swiftroot. Hikarion suggested they get the Cenarion Circle involved and have them take him, because this is better suited towards them, and Lina reluctantly agreed. So Lina got in contact with the CC, and they sent two representatives down to the estate. Lina argued Swiftroot is a danger to nature and those who live in Azeroth. However before Swiftroot could be handed over to the Cenarions, the estate was attacked by an army of strong aliens who look like demons and come from the Twisting Nether called the Nasir. It turns out the botani were allied to these Nasir on Azeroth, and the Nasir aided the struggling botani. The Nasir were relentless in their fight to free Swiftroot. And a notable Nasir was their powerful general, Apricot. The creatures were too strong and quickly overwhelmed Nashlette and the representatives. Lina was knocked unconscious along with one representative. The other pleaded for his and his sister's life to be spared, which they agreed. So the Nasir took Lina and Swiftroot back to the Barrens where they imprisoned Lina.
• The Nasir attempted to torture information out of Lina, and left her rotting in an underground chamber. The Nasir were deeply connected to life and nature energies like the botani, so Lina was slowly being eaten alive by the nature around her. After a while, she gathered enough strength to call upon the Void, who granted her a swift death - and corrupted the life around the underground chambers as a final "fuck you". She was revived back at her estate with her soulstone, however her body was destroyed when she killed herself. So she created a temporary body using dark magic.
• Her new body didn't have the void taint her original body had, so she didn't need to cover her arms or face anymore. At this point she started to realize the situation she was in. She made a lot of enemies, and a lot of powerful enemies too. Along with her arch-nemesis Alpia, she also had to worry about Swiftroot and his botani, and the Nasir. And they knew where she lived, so she was still in danger. And this worried her, a lot, to the point she became paranoid and fearful. She knew she didn't have the strength to face them, but she didn't want to ask her guildmates for help. She was on her own... but there was one person she could call. Previously, she procured a special tome from an Ethereal trader, and in this book was a ritual to traveling to a void corrupted world, and spoke of a powerful artifact that was held there. And she had plans to go there.

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  Lina'ven Pre-Third War [AI]

  She traveled across Azeroth to create items to help survive the atmospheric conditions in the Void, and she gathered the required reagents for the ritual. She asked her friend Hikarion who agreed to go on this mission with her. Sometime before all this, with the help of creatures of the Void, she teleported her whole estate to a purgatory-like area linked between Azeroth and the Void to hide herself from the Nasir & Botani. The mission was to go to X'lygari, a planet that was corrupted and consumed by the Voidlords ages ago, that's infested with void corruption and Old Gods warring against each other, to find a powerful artifact called the Void Shard: a relic that was the cause of the world's destruction by the Void, and had the potential to destroy worlds, and wipe out entire armies. Lina did the ritual and opened a gateway to X'lygari. There, she and Hikari witnessed what a world completely taken over by the Void is like; she saw armies of dangerous void creatures fighting each other, along with large Old Gods warring against one another for dominance in a planet devoid of normal life. They would've been dead if it weren't for the Void talismans Lina created. After traveling for what seemed like hours, they found where the Void Shard is. It was being protected by a large Wild God, Kharn, the last protector of his world.
• Lina attempted to take the Void Shard without him noticing, but when she interacted with it (not even touching it), she was immediately overwhelmed and infused with the immense power of the Shard, to the point her body couldn't handle it anymore and instantaneously (and brutally) exploded. But she didn't die; her soul was infused with copious amounts of Void energy, and the Shard prevented her soul from leaving the plane of the living. She became a sort of void aberration instead of a humanoid (she isn't counted as undead though). The Wild God saw this and tried to attack Lina and Hikari, but Hikari, being a pacifist who usually tries to talk before resorting to violence, tried talking to the Wild God. The Wild God, still enraged, asked for the Shard back, but Lina'ven was stubborn and refused to give it up. She went through all the trouble to get it; from doing the ritual to even losing her body and becoming void corrupted. She couldn't return home empty handed, not with her enemies still looming. And, it seemed the Shard was calling out to Lina'ven... the Shard didn't want to leave Lina either. The Wild God still wanted to attack Lina, and Hikari pleaded with her, but she still wouldn't give up. Soon a chase ensued between Lina, and Kharn and Hikari; with Lina using all the tricks at her disposal to get to the portal before they did. Eventually her soul bolted through the portal where she destroyed the connection, leaving Hikari (who sided with Kharn because of Lina's actions and refusing to give up the Shard) and the Wild God stranded on the other side.
• After returning home, she was coping with the betrayal of Hikarion, which hit her hard. Even more so after being consumed by Void energy which enhanced her negative thoughts and emotions. All that was left of her was her soul, which turned a deep purple from Void corruption. The whispers and corruption she was dealing with was the same level Alleria had to deal with at first, if not more because of the Void Shard. She was in the Ghostlands, struggling to keep her sanity from the Shard's influence, as the Void corruption quickly ate at her mind. She knew the destruction she'd cause would be catastrophic, but, all alone and with no one to turn to, she feared for the worst. Until a fateful encounter with a Ren'dorei spy changed that. With no choice but to accept her help, she reluctantly traveled to Telogrus Rift where the Ren'dorei helped Lina'ven control her Void corruption, and learn the teachings of the Locus-Walker to suppress the whispers of the Shard. Over time she learned to control the Void empowering her soul and control the Void Shard. With her innate Void energy, she has greater mastery over void and shadow magic unlike ever before, and her power is amplified with the Void Shard, which she forges into the Shard Scepter. She created a new body resembling her old one using the Shard's power. She bleeds a bluish purple void substance, has near immunity to Void magic, shadow magic, and resistance to pain (as well as resistance to Mind Magic and psionic Magic), and she cannot truly die unless you destroy her soul or release it. However all Holy energy harms her, and she takes damage from holy healing because of her void corruption. (She takes half damage from what you would normally heal for with Holy magic, to a minimum of 1). And ironically she can be more susceptible Void based Mind Magic if it overwhelms her enough because of her Void taint and corruption, even though her mental training (and her experience and training with the Void) reduces the risk of this happening.
• A few months after the Helm of Domination shattered she returned to the Barrens to deal with two of her enemies that were still a threat to her, with her newfound powers. She infiltrated the Botani's home deep in the Wailing Caverns, where Swiftroot and the Nasir general (and her army) were found. After a brief confrontation with the two, she unleashes the power of the Void Shard - quickly wiping out the Nasir's army and the Botani, including Swiftroot and Apricot in one spell. The entire Botani tribe was wiped out in less than 10 seconds, as well as the army of Nasir stationed in the caverns. Lina was incredibly satisfied with her revenge (regardless if you think it was petty or cruel or not), and returned to her estate after confirming Swiftroot and Apricot were dead. However there was still one last enemy that stood in Lina's way - Alpia. By this time, Alpia had grown incredibly powerful and ascended into "minor-godhood", with a cult following her that increases her power whenever she is worshipped.
• Lina'ven wasn't totally in the clear yet, because she figured the remaining Nasir would likely retaliate for killing their General. Along with the potential return of Hikarion and Kharn, she decided to relocate her estate again; this time she used the powers of the Void Shard to relocate her whole estate into the Void, on a desolate planet she named Y'lygari. Lina'ven can withstand the atmosphere of the Void, Twisting Nether, and Great Dark Beyond now that she is one with the Void now, but anyone else (that isn't a demon or aberration) would go insane or die on Y'lygari without protection or special charms Lina created for her Azerothian guests. It requires immense power to teleport to the world, and one would need to know where it is.
• Later on: one night she had a dream or a vision about Alpia, where she woke up in a spire in the Ghostlands and traveled to Silvermoon. The city was empty, until the city was suddenly burning; and a giant god-like Alpia was chasing Lina through the streets until eventually she caught up to her. The vision put Lina in a panic, seeing her home burning and destroyed by her arch-nemesis. She was confident in the Shard's power, but she was uncertain after seeing Alpia's power in the vision. In Tanaris, she came across a bronze dragon in the form of a Thalassian who called himself Silris. He seemed to know of Lina's history with Alpia, and offered to help Lina take her down. He convinced her that her powers weren't enough to beat Alpia, and they needed the help of another artifact they needed to create. While the artifact wouldn't kill Alpia, it would have the power to send her to an alternate timeline, and out of Lina's world, which Lina was reluctantly satisfied with. So over the next several weeks Lina procured the needed materials, until the two met up again. They needed temporal energy for the artifact, so Siliris used his powers to take Lina to different points in time to gather temporal energies. At the end of this, when they were back in Tanaris, Silris revealed who he really was: an adult Infinite Dragon. He put Lina in a timelock, where he explained he was using her in order to create the artifact for Alpia. Before taking off he also took the Shard Scepter.
• Lina'ven tried devising a plan to get her Scepter back, find Silris, and defeat Alpia once and for all. First off she needed to find Silris and get her Scepter back. She found out Silris wasn't in the same timeline anymore, and that Alpia has the artifact now. She found a small settlement full of Alpia's cultists and followers, and abducted a family of two (a mother and her child) from the village. She found a way to get back to Y'lygari where she proceeded to mentally torture and break the family for a week straight, using the insanity of the Void as a tool. She located Alpia and brought the mentally broken family with her. She had a voidlord with her, and after Lina made sure Alpia was watching, the warlock ordered the execution of the family right before her eyes, demanding that if Alpia didn't take her to where Silris was, she was going to torture and execute the entire village. Alpia was understandably incredibly furious and enraged. So she used the artifact to send Lina to where Silris was to let the dragon punish and kill her.
• She found her way to Silris's realm, where Lina'ven took on and attacked the adult Infinite Dragon by herself. She didn't have her Scepter to deal with the dragon, but using her own skills, magic and powers as a warlock, and tapping into the Void corruption in her soul - she killed the Infinite Dragon and reclaimed her Scepter. However before the dragon died, he used his powers to drain a significant portion of the Shard's power, before succumbing to it. While the Shard is still powerful, it no longer has the destructive capabilities it once had (balancing the artifact to be strong, but not absurdly OP strong!). Lina returned to the present timeline, where she came face to face with Alpia again. At this point, she started to doubt Alpia could be killed permanently. She remembered a time she thought she killed Alpia before, but she came back. Lina'ven attacked Alpia, and kept up with the powerful drust spirit until eventually she weakened her enough to steal the artifact, and used it to send Alpia to an alternate timeline permanently. With Alpia's final breath before being sent away, she gave Lina'ven an unknown curse, however Lina wasn't aware of it.
• Returning home, Lina breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling a massive weight gone after what felt like years of conflict with her arch-nemesis. Events that happened around this time: Lina'ven left House Eversun because their interests were no longer aligned, and sometime after she joined a goblin company called Wonderland.Co, where she aided them in security and magic-related work. In the back of her mind, she wondered if she should let her companions know about the still potential threat of Hikarion and Kharn, but that day never came, and sometime later she left the company. She also left the Ren'dorei, feeling like she already repaid their help - and not wanting to be associated with them anymore, despite their protests. She was still Sin'dorei and had relations with the Horde and Silvermoon, which she didn't want to tarnish by being discovered working with the Void Elves. She continued practicing her warlock magic, and also learning how to control and master the Void Shard, and her inner Void energies. She also frequented Quel'thalas and the Ghostlands, to protect her home against the undead in the Ghostlands like she always has. The officials of Silvermoon know about Lina's use of shadow magic (they don't know the full extent of it, but they have an idea), and they made a deal to let her stay a part of the Sin'dorei, in exchange for never going anywhere within a certain radius of the Sunwell, and never step foot on the Isle of Quel'Danas unless approved by the Magisters. This was mainly due to Lina's previous standing with the Sin'dorei, and her continued help in protecting the Ghostlands from the undead.
• Roleplay within Epsilon: Lina'ven was in the Ghostlands fighting the undead of the Dead Scar with her demons in the early months of year 40 (8-9 months before the rediscovery of the Dragon Isles), when a passing dwarf diplomat from the Argent Crusade assisted her. After the dust was settled the dwarf explained he was from the Argent Crusade, and that Lina'ven's skillset could really help them. Lina was very skeptical and hesitent, as she only saw the Argent Crusade as an order for the Light-wielding or worshipping, which she was the complete opposite of. But she tentatively agreed to hear them out, and so they traveled to the Western Plaguelands (which was now renamed back to Eastweald) to Hearthglen where spoke with Jaspen, the new leader of the Argent Crusade since Tirion's death. She explained how they allow wielders of dark magic (with probably the exception of Necromancy), so long as they use it for the good of the Argents and Eastweald. And how their order wasn't that of Light-worshipers, but it was something more than that. After some self-deliberation, she agreed to help the Argent Crusade in their quest to eradicate the Scourge in a joint partnership, but not join them because of her affiliation with the Horde and Silvermoon. She hates the Scourge with a burning passion, so it was honestly an easy choice for her.
• Her first mission with them was initially a 'rescue' misison. Jaspen explained that one of their important members, Ellienore Bradley, traveled to the Scarlet Enclave in the Eastern Plaguelands for diplomatic reasons, but they haven't heard back from her in weeks. She was afraid the Scarlet Crusade might have broke their pact with the Argent Crusade and kidnaped or even hurt Ellienore, and asked Lina to investigate. Lina'ven disguised herself as an Argent human mage diplomat, as to ensure she could slip in undetected and because she presumed her outward appearance would get her turned away, and traveled to the Scarlet Enclave. The soldiers searched her for something, but they let her pass. She found Ellienore at the town hall of New Avalon, in a meeting with some councilmen over some unrelated issues. It turns out there was a misunderstanding, and Ellienore was staying there for longer because she wanted refuge and protection from a certain threat. That 'threat' turned out to be Nashlette Songstorm, a worgen rogue and former friend of Ellienore that's been corrupted with Fel magic, and was hunting Ellie and her former guild leader of the Traders of the North.
• Lina'ven offered to protect Ellienore from Nash, and act as her bodyguard of sorts. Lina teleported the two back to Hearthglen and dispelled her illusion, revealing she was a Sin'dorei warlock instead of a human mage. From that point on, they became friends, and eventually close friends. However Lina still had a wall between them from her broken trust from Hikarion, not wanting to make the same mistake in case the two ever had a falling out; she was fearful and worried of Ellienore betraying her like Hikari did (from her perspective). One time, while they were still becoming freinds, Lina helped Ellie sneak out of Hearthglen so Ellie could show her around Eastweald. Jaspen sent an Argent bodyguard to follow and protect Ellie (she's very overprotective of Ellienore), but Lina didn't want him following them, so she used black magic to mind-control the guard into leaving them, impressing Ellienore as a result. They rode down the path to Andorhol when they encountered a group of thugs trying to mug them. Lina thought it was very cheeky, so Ellie and Lina easily dispatched the group with their dark magic, but left one of them alive for fun. After threatening him, he spilled that they're from the Syndicate, and were sent here for something... Lina'ven couldn't care less about the Syndicate, thinking they're a measly little fly that could be easily swatted. So she brutally fatalidied the thug, and stored their souls in soulshards for later use. Afterwards, Ellienore showed Lina her family's farmstead in the northern tip of Hillsbrad.
• While they were talking in the household, a knock at the door revealed that an uninvited guest showed up - Nashlette. She seemed to want to see Ellie and try and reconnect with her, however Lina was incredibly suspicious and on guard. So Lina turned Nashlette away at the door, saying she isn't home before slamming the door. Nashlette protested angerly, but Argent Crusade guards showed up and chased her away. Even though Ellie was hiding, having this close an encounter with Nash panicked her. So Lina'ven and Ellienore agreed to track Nashlette down and put a stop to her.
• They tracked Nash down to her hideout in Gilneas before breaking in. They saw Nash sitting on the couch, drowning herself in bottles of alchohol and booze looking depressed. They confronted the drunk worgen before it quickly turned into a fight, however Lina and Ellie were able to quickly subdue and capture her. Lina took them to her Estate on Y'lygari and imprisoned Nashlette in a holding cell in the Estate's prison. She upgraded security measures and her wards substantially since Alpia's and Swiftroot's escape. After a brief interaction between Ellie and Nash, she told Lina to do what she wants with the worgen; and that she never wanted to see her again. There's also a hefty bounty in Stormwind for her, Ellienore suggested. After that Lina showed Ellie around her Estate and eventually took her back to Hearthglen. When Lina'ven returned to decide Nashlette's fate, the worgen tried desperately to convince Lina to listen to her, and to let her hear her side of the story. Lina humored her and agreed, but only because she was curious about her. It turns out events happened differently from what Ellienore remembers: Ellienore cured Nash's Fel corruption with the help of Gwendolyn (a Hemomancer with a short history with Nash) 5-6 years ago, and the two stayed in close contact, despite the evil Nashlette has done to her and her friends. But they lost contact after Nash's expedition to the Shadowlands. And she had nothing to do with the plan to hunt Ellienore or the guild leader, and she genuinely just wanted to reconnect with Ellie, but was confused by their hostility. Lina'ven was of course very skeptical of this story, and didn't want to believe her. She was still Fel corrupted and evil after all, right?
• After some thinking and a little bit of reluctance, Lina'ven eventually used dark magic on Nashlette to peer into her mind; she looked at the worgen's past memories to uncover what really happened. To her suprise, the chain of events Nashlette described turned out to be accurate, and she wasn't involved in a plot to hunt Ellienore or the guild leader. Even if the spell wasn't 100% reliable, because memories and dreams can be interpreted differently, aren't completely objective of the facts - or might even be overwritten, wiped, or corrupted - this gave Nash some credibility. And after some testing, Lina determined Nashlette to not be Fel corrupted; while Nashlette still has Fel in her body, the Fel energy doesn't affect her mind or sanity much. And eventually after some consideration, she chose to believe the worgen. Especially if something was affecting Ellienore's memories. After getting to know Nashlette more, and after some discussions between the two - Lina agreed to be Nash's mentor and take the worgen as her apprentice in the warlock arts. But in exchange, Nashlette has to be her servent - and serve her. While helping her in restoring Ellienore's memories. Nash was very hesitant to accept, because this was similiar to a situation she had before with Gwendolyn, when she tried to make Nash serve her in a way using blood magic. But with little choice, she accepted; especially because she wants to be officially trained as a warlock, and learn to better harness and use her inner Fel energies. And she wants to help restore Ellienore's memories as well in the hopes of reuniting with her and reconnecting as friends again.
• So Lina'ven begins teaching Nashlette in the magic of warlocks, starting from square one. In order to make sure Nashlette obeys and keep her end of the deal, she laced Nash's mind with potent shadow magic to allow her to periodically keep tabs on Nashlette, and know where she is telepathically. She mainly kept Nash at the Estate at first, however as time went on she allowed Nashlette more freedoms, and eventually allowing her to leave when she wants. She designed a special stone with runes to allow them to instantly communicate with one another, even across worlds and planes. And the stone allows Nashlette to teleport in and off of Y'lygari (with approval from Lina). And they devised plans on what to do about Ellienore. Lina'ven meanwhile traveled between Y'lygari, Eastweald, and occasonally back to the Ghostlands. She continued helping the Argent Crusade and befriending Ellienore, while keeping an eye on her. Lina'ven was starting to consider Ellienore a good friend now, so she wanted to keep her safe and also not do anything to ruin their friendship.
• 4 months go by and Lina'ven was in Hearthglen with Ellienore, when Jaspen came to them with a mission. Around this time they were having problems with a rogue chronomancer who abducted 4 of their people, and was a potential danger to the Plaguelands. They were already devising a mission with the Kirin Tor in Brightglen to confront the chronomancer, but they needed someone to discreetly track her down to her base. Ellienore also got word that a certain blood made was sighted in the Plaguelands, so they traveled east towards Thondroil River, and crossed into the Plaguelands. They investigated the town of Northdale, along the road in the eastern part of the zone, where they found a mysterious house in the corner of the town that the villagers had no idea was even there. Inside, they found the tauren chronomancer, and they were almost spotted too. But while Lina was tempted to just kill the chronomancer right there, she didn't care enough to disobey Jaspen like that, so they teleported back to Hearthglen after they didn't find any information on the blood mage. They reported the information they learned back to Jaspen, and Jaspen and Lydine initiated their plan to raid the house in the following days.
• Some months later, Ellienore wanted to return to the Plaguelands to find the blood mage again - Gwendolyn Rose. At the same time, Jaspen learned they wanted to return to the Plaguelands, despite the new dangers of the region. Ever since the 4 missing Argent Crusade members returned back to Eastweald (and after Jaspen/Lydine killed the rogue chronomancer), a magical lightning struck above Stratholme, and shrouded the Plaguelands in a thick, dangerous fog, causing the undead to become more active and violent, and caused a new problem in the region too; someone hacking into the teleport network and causing all sorts of problems for people traveling in the Plaguelands. The Argent Crusade and Kirin Tor declared the region as a no-travel zone as a result. She was still going between Eastweald and the Ghostlands at this point, and Silvermoon imposed a teleport-ban in Quel'thalas (except Quel'Danas) because the problem extended into the Ghostlands too. Not like Lina followed it, and she still managed to teleport to the Ghostlands when she needed to. And she was displeased with the current leadership change of Silvermoon as well; with Lor'themar suspiciously stepping down after the 'deaths' of Rommath and Halduron in the Ghostlands, and the last remaining Sunstrider taking over as Queen of Silvermoon... but she just kept her head down for now.
• (Current Timeline) Jaspen tasked them to check on Westdale near the mountain border of Thondroil River, Plaguelands side, which they agreed to. So the two traveled to Thondroil River, and avoided the border guards - going up stream until Lina teleported the two across. Going up the path they approached Terrorweb Tunnel, a tunnel that went straight to Westdale, however on the way they discovered a small Sin'dorei military camp along the river. It was completely destroyed and torn apart, with bodies scattered around. They saw a few ghouls feasting on the bodies, and the two quickly dispatched the undead and made their way into the tunnel. But before entering the tunnel - Lina'ven subtly used her communication stone and messaged Nash to follow them. The tunnel was dark, quiet, and empty... but she could feel them being watched. So Lina summoned a Felhound to follow them through the cave. Everything was as expected so far, until halfway through the tunnel a dark figure suddenly appeared. Lina and Ellie were surprised, and Lina tried confronting it, until she eventually attacked it with her Felhound. However her attacks were just phasing through it, until eventually time seemed to crawl to a stop... leaving just Lina and the mysterious stranger moving. He didn't introduce himself, but he appeared as a human draped in a large cloak, with his face obscured.
• Lina demanded to know who he was, yet he didn't explain who or what he was. He only spoke in riddles and clues to Lina'ven, leaving her quite confused during their conversation. But what he did get out of it, was there's a deep mystery in the Plaguelands, involving the figure, Ellienore (and her missing memories), Lina'ven (and later Nashlette), and Gwendolyn, who he said was in danger in the Plaguelands, but the deep bond between Lina and Ellienore will be able to unlock the secrets of this mystery. And he mentioned something else too, about a key lying in Lina'ven heritage, and afterwards he spoke in a language unfamiliar to her (Old Darnassian). But she pulled out a pen and paper and wrote down everything in a notebook, including what the stranger said (but couldn't understand). But before Lina could ask any questions he disappeared, and the flow of time returned back to normal. Ellienore was in a state of clear distress... she didn't see nor hear the figure, and Lina'ven was just oddly standing still during it. Lina'ven briefly surmised her encounter with the cloaked figure, and what he said. And the two pondered what the figure meant... but they knew they had to press on into the Plaguelands and figure this out. Arriving on the other side they stood at the gates to Westdale, which was renamed to Radiant Vigil, controlled by the Luminar Arcanum, a faction that split away from the Argent Crusade since the Argents abandoned the Plaguelands after the incident a few months ago.
• The two settled into the town, and rented out a room in the inn. The two figured they could get some planning done on the situation while here, since they got permission to stay there from the Luminar Arcanum. 20 minutes later when they were touring around the town, Lina got a distress signal from Nashlette, indicated by a red light on her communication stone. She subtly excused herself away from Ellienore. Telepathically communicating with her through the stone she asked what was wrong, but Nashlette explained she ran into the same figure in the tunnel, but he didn't seem happy with her - and told her an ominous warning. But when she left the tunnel, the Plaguelands she appeared in looked strange... and after investigating, it appeared to be the Plaguelands of old (15 years ago). Meaning there was no Westdale. And what's worse, she was being stalked by the figure after she provoked him by attacking and insulting him. Annoyed, but realizing she could be in danger, she ran to the back gates of town and demanded they be opened. When they refused, she simply teleported past it and ran back into the tunnel alone.
• She shouted in the tunnel, trying to get the attention of the mysterious figure about leaving her apprentice alone. But when it seemed hopeless, she started feeling the same weird sensation as when she first met the figure, until eventually she blacked out. When she woke up, she had a painful headache. But when she opened her eyes, she was in an unknown human-looking house, and she was clothed differently. And she didn't have her demonic horns. She met a human farmer named Kent, who mistook her as his wife. Yet, she played along, until eventually she was able to slip out of the house unseen. But when she stepped outside, she almost had whiplash when she realized she was in the Plaguelands from before the Third War, so the grass was still green and there were Lordaeron citizens walking down the road. Approaching the barn, she saw a semi-transparent purple spector, in the form of Ellienore. It wasn't the real Ellie, but Lina could feel part of her soul however, so just in case she readied a spare soulshard she was carrying. The spector led her down the road to the gates of Stratholme. She realized this was right before the Culling - as she could see Arthas, Uther, and Jaina there, along with the Lordaeron army. But it appeared nobody could see her.
• Crossing the bridge, she saw Thalion Sunwhisper (Jaspen's advisor) and Magus Dra'Gan (advisor to Solana, mayor of Brightglen, yet she hadn't interacted with him much) seemingly plotting something, before Thalion teleported away. She raised a brow in suspicion at that, but carried on and followed the spector through King's Square and Festival Lane. The spector stopped in front of a particular shop, next to town hall. Before she could go in and investigate, she ran into Nashlette, looking just as confused as Lina. Nash explained she was dropped in the same period as Lina, but near Thondroil River. And eventually she was led to Stratholme too. But before they could reunite too much, the Culling started, and people began turning into undead and overrunning the city. They saw a ghoul run into the shop from before, and heard screaming. The two looked inside and saw young Ellienore, and her mother (Estella) in the shop. The mom did what she could to protect Ellie, but was killed by the ghoul. When her father (Edwan) showed up, she ran and took Ellienore outside. Even the area near the town hall became overrun. Lina nor Nash could interact with the undead. When they saw Thalion again, he appeared through a portal next to the town hall, where he killed Edwan and abducted Ellienore through a portal. And then that's when Arthas's forces arrived and culled the rest of the undead. They were quite shocked and suprised, but when Nash noticed the spector of Ellie next to them, she began feeling very emotional. She broke down in tears, and embraced the spector; apologizing profusely for what happened and what she did in the past. And promising to make it up. After the emotional moment, Lina approached the spector and stored it in the soulshard. And afterwards, everything went black again.
• She woke up in their room in Radiant Vigil (with no Nash in sight), where Ellienore explained they found her collapsed near the entrance of the tunnel and brought her back. After composing herself, she finally explained what happened, and what she saw. Including mentioning Nashlette, where she admited they have a partnership, and Nash is her apprentice. She left out everything about Thalion and Dra'Gan though. Lina'ven guessed that what they experienced was only a vision of events, powered by chronomancy, and they weren't actually there in the past. The mysterious stranger was trying to show them something from this, but she was a little lost on what. She wasn't even sure if he was the good guy, or if they should trust him. And she also guessed the spector of Ellienore could be her missing memories, taking the shape of the purple spector - and she has it with her. When they gathered their things and walked downstairs, they saw Nashlette drinking away at a table. Ellienore freaked out seeing Nash, however with quick thinking Lina had an idea. She masterfully weaved an illusion for Ellie, where she'd see Nashlette as she was before her fel-corruption; with blue eyes, and her original outfit. This seemed to do the trick and calmed Ellie down, but that's when the mysterious stranger hijacked her illusion, causing her to panic and run out of the town.
• Lina and Nash ran after her, and when they caught up to her down to road of Radiant Vigil, they encountered the mysterious stranger again. Though he didn't speak, Nash stood in front of Ellie and cursed him out; demanding to know what he wanted from them. The two were about to attack when the figure teleported away. Lina attempted to hyjack his teleport residue and follow after him, but when she teleported the three they ended up somewhere else. They teleported in Light's Hope Chapel, out a portal the Kirin Tor (stuck in the Plaguelands) tried to create. While there, Nash reuinited with one of her old friends Syelia, and Ellienore reunited with her long lost sister Annabelle. While walking outside Ellie caught Anna up to speed, and the four discussed what to do next. Lina remembered what the figure said about her heritage, and the strange language he spoke in, which she had written down. Nash took a look at it, and she recognized it to be Old Darnassian. While she couldn't understand it, she could tell the language because of her fluency with modern Darnassian. With a new goal in mind, Lina planned to travel to Quel'thalas to find someone who could translate Old Darnassian. She knew some people who could, and she hoped it would give them clues on where to start unraveling the bigger mystery.

Personal Details

Lina'ven is currently mentoring Nashlette Songstorm in being a warlock in exchange for her being Lina's servant.

Trivia

• In exchange for helping the Council of the Black Harvest during the Third Legion invasion, they gifted her a unique Wrathsteed from Xoroth. It's tainted with both Fel and Void energies, leading it to switch between a more Fel-demonic form, and a Void-abberation form. She named the creature ---. And she still remains a mutual acquaintance with the group of warlocks and occasonally helps them out.
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